Run the floor
Every job, every machine, one board.
One sales order becomes the production orders that actually run. A book splits into pages and cover, each with its own paper, machines and stages, and both come back together at dispatch.
The pain today
What it looks like now.
- One order is really three jobs, and nobody can see which of the three is behind.
- Planning lives on a whiteboard that is wiped every evening.
- Work sent to the binder down the road disappears until it comes back.
- Nobody can say what still has to be made, only what has been ordered.
- The supervisor decides what runs next, on the day, from memory.
How Prodman ERP fixes it
What changes for you.
- Production orders split from one sales order. Pages and cover each get their own routing, paper and machines.
- Lanes come from the item's own specification. A job with three printed parts makes three lanes without anyone drawing them.
- A stage can run on several machines, and the work centre is assigned per stage instance.
- Outsourced stages are first class. Sent out and received back are real events, so the binder is never a blind spot.
- A kanban board, a schedule and a priority queue over every open work order.
- A production plan showing what still has to be made, not just what was ordered.
- One work order hub per job: lanes, attention items, material requests, output and dispatch in one place.
How it works
Step by step on the floor.
- 1 The order is accepted
- 2 Production orders and lanes are derived from the item
- 3 Stages are assigned to machines or sent out
- 4 The floor captures against them
1 hub
per job, instead of four screens and a phone call
Run the floor
1 hub
per job, instead of four screens and a phone call
Straight answers
Questions owners ask about this.
Yes. Stages are skipped per job, so a part-product run does not carry stages it will never touch.
It stays on the board. Sent out and received back are tracked as events, and the quantity still counts as work in progress while it is away.
Stop putting out fires. Start seeing the floor.
Book a 30-minute demo and we will show you Prodman ERP on a factory like yours. We take only a few factories each quarter, because we set up every one of them on site, by hand.
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