ERP for make-to-order
In make-to-order, production only starts after the customer order. Lead time and margin depend on how quickly you arrange materials, capacity and work preparation. Digital WorkMate links the order directly to BOM, routing, purchasing and scheduling.
Where it often pinches
- Committing reliable delivery dates while capacity is already full
- Purchasing material on time for every order
- Pushing customer changes through to the shop floor
- Tracking margin per order
The make-to-order chain
- 1Customer order
- 2Product
- 3BOM
- 4Routing
- 5Material
- 6Scheduling
- 7Production
- 8Delivery
From order to demand in one step
Link a cost estimate to the sales order and let DWM decide per component whether to reserve, purchase or produce.
Delivery dates based on real capacity
Schedule ASAP from today or JIT back from the delivery date. The scheduler reports immediately when an operation exceeds the delivery date.
Customer orders entered faster
Import a customer's PDF order, review the differences with the sales order and apply the lines.
What Digital WorkMate offers for this today
For each part you can see whether it is fully or partially available.
- 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.
- Cost estimatingAvailable
Cost estimates based on the BOM; one action per component to reserve stock, create a purchase demand or a production order.
- 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.
- Purchase orders and receiptsAvailable
Purchase orders from demand, approval, partial deliveries and receipt registration.
- 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.
- 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.
- Documents: quotes, order confirmations, invoices, packing slipsAvailable
Own document templates per tenant with numbering, e-mail delivery, payment status and e-invoicing.
Make-to-order: frequently asked questions
How do I commit a reliable delivery date in make-to-order?
Schedule ASAP from today or JIT back from the delivery date. The scheduler uses finite capacity and reports immediately when an operation exceeds the delivery date.
Can I enter customer orders from PDF automatically?
Yes. Import the customer's PDF order, review the differences with the sales order and apply the lines.
Does the system determine what I need to purchase?
Yes, per order: from the cost estimate Digital WorkMate decides per component whether to reserve, purchase or produce. There is no classic MRP run across all orders.
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