MANUFACTURING & LOGISTICS
Custom ERP for manufacturing & logistics
Plan on one number the whole plant trusts, quote from real cost, and trace any batch in seconds.
Manufacturers and logistics operators are the businesses most often told to change their process to fit their software. It happens because generic ERP encodes one idea of how production should flow, and your plant — with its particular machines, its particular constraints, its particular way of handling a rush job — doesn't match it.
divisionAI starts from your process. We map how material actually moves through your operation, then build the system around that: production planning, bills of materials, warehouse, purchasing and traceability that reflect your floor rather than a template.
The gap between the system and the floor
The shadow spreadsheet
The real plan lives in a spreadsheet on the planner's machine because the ERP can't express how you actually schedule. When that person is on holiday, the plant runs blind.
Stock accuracy nobody trusts
System quantities and physical quantities diverge, so purchasing buys defensively and working capital sits on a shelf.
Traceability as an archaeology project
Tracing a batch back to its raw material and forward to its customers takes days of digging when an audit or a recall makes it urgent.
Costing that arrives too late
True cost per job is known weeks after the job shipped — long after you could have priced or planned differently.
WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE
PROMISE DATES
YOU CAN KEEP.
The expensive thing about a plan nobody trusts isn't the plan — it's the buffer. Quoted lead times get padded, safety stock creeps up, and the commercial team hedges on delivery dates because nobody can see whether the floor will hit them. That caution is priced into every quote you lose.
A schedule built on your real constraints removes the need to guess. Cost per job is known while the job is still open, so pricing reflects what work actually takes. Traceability answers in seconds rather than days. The plant can commit to a date because the date came from the plant.
"Capacity you can see is capacity you can sell."
A system that matches your floor
These are the modules manufacturing and logistics operators most often need. What yours looks like is decided in discovery, after we've walked your process end to end.
Production planning
Scheduling that understands your real constraints — machine capacity, changeover time, the operator who is the only one certified on a line. Rush jobs get slotted without rebuilding the week by hand.
Bills of materials
Multi-level BOMs with versioning, so a design change propagates to purchasing and costing instead of living in an email thread.
Warehouse & stock
Location-level stock with barcode or QR movements, cycle counting, and variance visible per bin rather than per site.
Purchasing & suppliers
Requirements driven by the plan, not by anxiety. Supplier lead-time performance tracked automatically and fed back into planning.
Traceability
Batch and serial genealogy in both directions — raw material to shipment, shipment back to raw material — answerable in seconds.
AI agents
Agents flag plans that will miss a promised date, propose re-sequencing when a machine goes down, chase supplier confirmations and draft the purchase requirements for approval.
What changes
The first change is that the shadow spreadsheet disappears, because the system can finally express how you schedule. Then the buffers start coming down.
Questions from operations directors
- Why not just implement SAP or a standard ERP?
- For some manufacturers that is genuinely the right answer, and we will say so. It stops being the right answer when the implementation cost is dominated by customisation — when you're paying to bend a generic system toward your process anyway. At that point building around your process is usually faster and materially cheaper, and you own the result.
- Can it talk to our machines and existing shop-floor hardware?
- Where the hardware exposes an interface — OPC UA, Modbus, a file drop, an API — yes. Where it exposes nothing, we work with barcode or tablet capture at the station instead. We scope exactly which machines are reachable during discovery rather than promising it blind.
- How long before something is actually running on the floor?
- First working modules are typically live within weeks, not quarters, because we release the highest-pain area first rather than waiting for the whole system. The floor sees value before the full build is done.
- Who owns the code if we stop working with you?
- You do. Code and data are yours outright — that is a deliberate difference from SaaS ERP, where leaving means losing the system. You can take it to another team.
NEXT STEP
See what this looks like for your business.
A 30-minute call, a map of your processes, and a straight answer on what a tailor-made system would cost you. No deck, no pressure.
OPERATIONS
- Operations: Global Remote
- European Hubs: Tirana / Cologne
- SLA: Reply < 24 Hours