A factory system that shows true per-unit cost — before profit quietly disappears
Many SME factories are excellent at making things, but production data lives in shop-floor notebooks, Excel files, and a shift leader's memory. We build systems that connect bills of materials, work orders, raw-material stock, and true costs — so owners see the real profit on every job and deliver on time.
- True cost
- per-unit cost from real materials, labor, and scrap
- On time
- every work order tracked against its due date
- Right stock
- purchasing driven by the real production plan
- 10+ yrs
- cross-industry experience
Raw material to delivery
A system covering order-in to goods-out
Every part is designed to surface true costs, control scrap, and deliver on time.
Bills of materials (BOM)
Keep every product's recipe and components — material needs per order calculated instantly.
Work orders & job status
Open work orders from sales orders; see which stage each job is at, who's on it, and when it finishes.
Raw & finished stock
Materials issued, materials left, finished goods ready to ship — all visible in one system.
True per-unit cost
Materials, labor, and scrap combined into a real cost per unit — know which jobs profit and which lose.
Scrap & rework tracking
Record scrap per batch and per step, see where losses cluster, and fix the root cause.
Production & purchase planning
The plan computes what to order and when — no stopped lines from missing materials.
Quality checks
Inspection points at defined steps, with results recorded and traceable per batch.
Connected to accounting & sales
Orders, production, and costs flow through to invoices and profit reports with no re-keying.
Shop-floor notebooks + scattered Excel
- Per-unit cost is an estimate from last year
- Material shortages discovered when the line stops
- Job status requires a walk to the line to ask
- Scrap hides inside costs where nobody sees it
- Production knowledge lives with a few shift leaders
A connected production system
- True cost per unit per batch, updated from the floor
- Alerts before materials run short, per the real plan
- Every work order's status on one screen
- Scrap recorded as a number you can act on
- Production knowledge lives in the system, transferable
Common situations
Situations SME factories often face, and what changes with a system
Real shop-floor situations, and what the system is designed to help with.
Same prices every year, yet margins keep thinning
The system combines materials, labor, and scrap into a true per-unit cost per batch — showing clearly which jobs need a price change, which need a process change, and which aren't worth taking.
Some months the line stops for materials; others, cash sits in over-ordered stock
The production plan connects to stock and purchasing: the system computes what to order, how much, and when — from real orders, not anxiety-driven padding.
The shift leader is away, and nobody can say where jobs stand
Job status, recipes, and production history live in the system — not one person's notebook or memory. Everyone sees the same answer, and new hires learn faster.
Where factory profit quietly goes
Why factory profit quietly disappears, even at full capacity
Factories that are busy but thin on profit rarely lack production skill — they lack the data showing where true costs sit. A good system makes those numbers visible and fixable.
Request an initial assessmentPrices set from old costs
Materials and labor move every year, but prices were set from costs two years back. True costing lets you reprice in step with reality.
Scrap nobody counts
A few percent of scrap per batch adds up to a large chunk of lost annual profit. Recording it per step makes it visible and fixable at the source.
Cash sunk in padded orders
Over-ordering for lack of data is cash locked in the warehouse. A plan connected to stock lets you order precisely with confidence.
Late deliveries become penalties and lost customers
Seeing every job against its due date means fixing problems before delivery day — not apologizing after it.
FAQ
Questions factory owners ask most
The factory-system and manufacturing-ERP questions we hear most often.
Does a factory under fifty people need a full ERP?
Not to start. Small factories usually begin at the sharpest pain — per-unit costing or raw-material stock — and extend step by step. A well-designed system grows with the factory without a rebuild.
What's the difference between MRP and ERP?
MRP focuses on planning materials and production; ERP extends to accounting, sales, and purchasing. Most SME factories get the most value starting with production and stock, connecting accounting when ready.
How do you calculate per-unit production cost accurately?
Combine three things from real data: materials actually issued per the BOM, labor at actual time spent, and that batch's scrap. The system captures all three from the floor automatically, giving a cost you can genuinely price from — not last year's average.
Our floor still runs on paper — will the team adapt?
Yes, if the system is designed from the real floor. We start by observing the current process, then make recording easier than the notebook — scanning or tapping instead of writing — so the team adopts it because work gets easier, not because they're forced.
Can it connect to our machines or existing accounting?
Usually, yes. We design around your existing accounting and data first so nothing is keyed twice. Machine integration is case-by-case based on what data the machines expose — we start where the return is clearest.
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