Manufacturing ERP for complex manufacturing
One platform for the entire production chain: from sales and estimating through BOMs, routings and scheduling to the shop floor, inventory, actual costing and invoicing.
- 1Sales
- 2Product & revision
- 3BOM
- 4Costing
- 5Routing & scheduling
- 6Purchasing & inventory
- 7Shop floor
- 8Actual costing & invoice
From customer request to order confirmation
Accounts, quotes and sales orders with discount agreements, credit limits and your own document templates. A sales order is linked directly to costing, production and delivery.
- Account management (customers, suppliers, contacts)Available
Accounts with contacts, delivery addresses, payment terms, credit limit and payment behaviour.
- Quotes and sales ordersAvailable
Sales orders with a status flow from quote to order, discounts, tiers, credit-limit check and links to cost estimates and production orders.
- Import customer orders from PDFAvailable
Have a customer PDF order read by an AI reader that checks order number, dates, quantities and prices against the document; show differences with the sales order and apply the lines. A ribbon button reads in a received customer order directly and the system also recognises by itself which document is a customer order; it learns per customer from earlier imports.
- Documents: quotes, order confirmations, invoices, packing slipsAvailable
Own document templates per tenant with numbering, e-mail delivery, payment status and e-invoicing.
- CRM / lead pipelinePartial
Leads and opportunities through the "Lead Sales and Marketing" portfolio template and leads from Outlook; no forecasting or lead-scoring engine.
- Support requests between companiesAvailable
A client submits a support request from an order, product or task to the company that supports it. The request becomes a task on the provider's support board; the client sees ticket number, status, history and (when the provider shares them) the discussion and time spent, and can cancel or reopen the request, without access to the provider's board.
- Shipping and returnsPartial
Shipments, carriers, shipping rules and return requests; the shipping module is still flagged as experimental.
Product structures that follow reality
Revisions, multi-level BOMs with dimensions and material loss, and an estimate that turns straight into reservations, purchasing and production orders.
- Products and product groupsAvailable
Central item catalogue with units, packaging, sourcing type (purchased, manufactured, customer supplied) and custom attributes per product group.
- Product revisionsAvailable
Revisions with work-in-progress, released and obsolete status; released structures are protected against changes.
- Multi-level bills of materialsAvailable
Multi-level BOMs with phantom assemblies, dimensions (length, width, height) and material-loss rules for saw and cutting loss.
- Product options and variantsPartial
Commercial options decide which BOM lines apply to an order or estimate; no rule-based product configurator.
- Cost estimatingAvailable
Cost estimates based on the BOM; one action per component to reserve stock, create a purchase demand or a production order.
- Make-or-buy adviceAvailable
Transparent, rule-based advice per component on whether to make or buy it.
- Cost prices, purchase and sales pricesAvailable
Cost price per revision, supplier prices with quantity breaks and validity date, sales prices with discount agreements.
Scheduling on real capacity
Production orders with operations on machines and work centres, an automatic finite-capacity scheduler and insight into planned versus actual.
- Production orders with routingAvailable
Production orders with operations (setup, cycle and wait time), template orders as standard routings, grouping and yield/scrap per operation. The system advises the quantity to start to reach the required good quantity and shows the historical yield per product and operation, which you can adopt as the new default yield.
- Work centres, machines and capacityAvailable
Operations linked to machines or work centres, availability schemes per machine and person (create time slots by dragging, copy a day and fill days), interchangeable machines through operation groups and departments per site with their own colour and rights.
- Finite-capacity schedulingAvailable
Automatic priority-driven scheduler with ASAP and JIT scheduling, dependencies, critical path and a drag-to-reschedule Gantt chart. Per department you set a priority per production order, the Gantt shows department colours and filters on workplace, department and user, and a planner work list shows the operations of a user's workplaces. An operation without planned time does not block scheduling.
- Order-driven material requirementsAvailable
Production requirements per operation (reserve, purchase, produce) and min/max replenishment rules. No classic time-phased MRP run across all orders.
- Takt linesAvailable
Flow-line planning in fixed takt periods and zones.
- Energy-price-driven schedulingAvailable
Start operations automatically once the electricity price drops below a per-machine threshold (NL, BE, DE/LU, FR).
- Hours, progress and actual costingAvailable
Actual times, consumption and scrap per operation; planned versus actual and the cost per good piece.
- Quality (NCR, audits, confirmations)Partial
In-process quality control with measurement steps, tolerances, photos and checklists recorded by the operator, with a configurable frequency (for example every first piece or every N pieces). A rejected step can block the operation, block a lot or start a non-conformance report (NCR). Non-conformance reports and audit schedules as task board templates; no SPC charts and no incoming inspection at goods receipt.
- Equipment and maintenanceAvailable
Equipment register with maintenance records and reliability figures (MTBF, MTTR).
- Projects and project stockAvailable
Projects with locations, tasks, project stock and linked production orders.
Materials on time and traceable
Purchasing from demand, three-way match on invoices, stock per location and full lot traceability.
- Purchase orders and receiptsAvailable
Purchase orders from demand, approval, partial deliveries and receipt registration.
- Purchase invoices with three-way matchAvailable
Purchase invoices matched line by line against order and receipt, including recognition of incoming invoices and early-payment discount.
- Requests for quotation (RFQ)Partial
Quote comparison through the "RFQ / Tender Comparison" portfolio template; no formal RFQ sending flow.
- Stock and warehouse locationsAvailable
Stock per location, reservations per order or estimate, FIFO/FEFO per product group, min/max rules and picking with GS1 barcode scanning.
- Pick orders and packing slipsAvailable
Pick orders for sales, production, replenishment, transfers and cycle counts. Create them directly from a sales order (including partial deliveries) or a production order, pick on a mobile device with barcode scanning and book every movement into the lot ledger automatically. A pick list per type, plus a packing slip of the picked lines.
- Lots and traceabilityAvailable
Immutable lot ledger, tracing from supplier batch to customer and back, repacking with lot genealogy and production postings per lot.
- Serial numbersPartial
Serial numbers are recorded but not yet linked to the stock ledger the way lots are.
The shop floor as part of the ERP
Terminals, work lists and reporting of consumption and good/scrap, directly on the same orders.
- Shop floor terminalsAvailable
Fixed workstations with login by PIN, QR badge, NFC or phone, linked to operations and stock locations.
- Operator work listAvailable
Operations by priority per operator; start, park and complete with automatic time registration.
- Consumption, good/scrap and confirmationsAvailable
Book material consumption and good and scrapped quantities with scrap reason from the floor, with confirmation steps where needed.
- Digital work instructionsAvailable
Step-by-step work instructions per operation, product or revision, with measurement steps and tolerances; operators record results on the shop floor, a failure can block the order or start a non-conformance report, and the order list shows the status.
- Attendance and timesheetsAvailable
Clocking in and out, timesheets with approval and leave requests.
A modern cloud platform
Web based on desktop, mobile and terminal, with roles and rights, custom fields, an audit trail and open integrations.
- Cloud SaaS, browser and mobileAvailable
Fully web based: desktop, mobile app, terminal and Outlook from one platform; nothing to install except the optional Monitor.
- Multi-tenant with sitesAvailable
Separated customer environments, multiple sites per customer and currency per account.
- Roles, rights and audit trailAvailable
Roles per object, rights per feature and a timeline of changes per record.
- Custom fields and templatesAvailable
Custom attributes on almost every entity (24 types) and ready-made templates for task boards and portfolios.
- Reports and dashboardsPartial
Dashboards, charts and lists with filters and inline editing; new reports are set up by DWM, there is no self-service report builder.
- Workflow automationPartial
Approval steps (stage gates), allowed status transitions on task boards and background jobs; no no-code rule engine.
- Financial accounting (own general ledger)Partial
Own general ledger per tenant with automatic postings from invoices, purchasing, inventory and production. The module is still flagged as an experimental feature; a package-neutral export of posted entries is available, but a direct export to external accounting packages is not yet, and consolidation across entities or countries is missing.
- General ledger, journals, fiscal years and periodsPartial
Chart of accounts with default setup, cost centres, journals and posting rules. Manual journal entries (draft, post, reverse) with server-side balance control; posted entries are immutable. Close and reopen fiscal years and periods, year-end close transferring the result, trial balance, profit and loss, balance sheet and margins per customer, project and production order.
- Automatic postings from operationsPartial
Sales invoices, purchase invoices, goods receipts, stock movements and production orders (work in progress, labour and machine absorption, variance settlement) post automatically in the same transaction as the operational action.
- Open items, payments and bank statementsPartial
Receivables and payables with ageing, payments with allocation to open items and reversal, and bank accounts with uploadable statements (CAMT.053, MT940), matching suggestions and posting to the ledger.
- VAT return and ICP listPartial
VAT return with boxes derived from the posted entries, ICP list and finalising the return. Submitting the return to the tax authority itself happens outside DWM.
- Onboarding Scan and pre-configured trial environmentAvailable
A questionnaire about company, products, planning, shop floor and machines produces a trial environment set up for your type of company: the modules you need, work centres with standard operations, product groups, stock locations, task boards, roles and example data. Setup tasks point out the next steps, such as checking templates and supplying your own customers and suppliers as Excel.
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