Manufacturing
Manufacturing ERP for inventory, production, and cost on one file
A production run is materials, a bill of materials, a shop order, a quality check, and a cost that finance will dispute if the numbers arrived late. Customer Flow is cloud ERP for manufacturers who need inventory, procurement, and production on one platform with real-time data and built-in approvals.
Stores know stock. Planning knows the order. Quality knows the NCR. Cost lives in a file that is updated after the shift. When yield is off, nobody can show which approval let a substitute part in. Customer Flow keeps the order, the movement, and the trail together.
What stays on the file
- Items, warehouses, and movements are live — not a weekly stock-take surprise.
- Bills of materials and production orders sit next to procurement so shortages show up before the line waits.
- Quality inspections and non-conformances attach to the same operational file.
- Approvals stop informal substitutions; the audit trail shows who changed the plan.
How a file moves
Step 1
Master the item once
Products, locations, and partners are setup. Every order reuses them instead of a new spreadsheet column.
Step 2
Plan and issue
Production orders pull from inventory and procurement. Issues and receipts write to the same stock picture.
Step 3
Check quality and cost
Inspections and variances stay on the order. Finance is not reconstructing cost from three exports.
Questions for this process
Is this a full MES for the shop floor?
Customer Flow is ERP: inventory, production orders, quality records, procurement, and cost. It is not a machine-level MES. Use it for the file the office and stores already fight over.
Can we start with inventory only?
Yes. Open a workspace, load items and locations, and add production and quality when the next process is ready.
Does manufacturing work with import of raw materials?
Yes. Import files, landed cost, and inventory sit on the same platform, so inbound materials are not a separate island.