Put every job on the floor as a numbered work order, from stage to stage.
A work order puts one job on the floor: what to make, how many, by when, and which stage it has reached. Material is issued against it, and output and rejections are booked to it. The person on the phone can see where a customer’s job stands. The whiteboard stops being the only version of the truth.
An order arrives on WhatsApp. The supervisor writes it in a diary, the whiteboard carries whatever fits, and by Wednesday the two disagree. A customer rings at four o’clock, and somebody walks to the machine to find out.
Each job gets a work order with a number of its own. Your stages sit on it in the order they actually happen: cutting, welding, coating, packing. Each is marked off as it finishes. What the store issued and what the floor produced are on the same screen.
What your team uses today.
The module takes over these, one at a time, so nothing has to stop while it is set up.
- The shop-floor whiteboard
- Verbal material issue at the store
- A notebook of rejected pieces
The problems this is meant to ease.
What work order management does.
What this looks like in a working week.
Illustrative scenarios, written to show the shape of the work. They are not accounts of client systems.
The people who open this every day.
From first conversation to daily use.
Name your stages
Tell us the stages a job passes through, in your words. A stage list comes back to confirm.
Link orders and material
Sales orders are connected, and so is the bill of materials. A sample work order draws on each.
Set up the board
A screen shows jobs by stage. The supervisor tries it beside the whiteboard.
Move to the screen
Supervisors and the store use live work orders. The whiteboard is retired after a trial period.
How you would know it is working.
Record where you stand before it goes live, so the change is measured against your own figures.
- Jobs late against their promised date
- Rejection and rework by stage
- Material issued against material planned
- Jobs on hold, with the reason
- Time a job spends in each stage
It is one part of a system, not an island.
A module earns its place by what it passes to the next one. These are the connections we set up most often.
- Bill of materials
- Production planning
- Stock
- Job work delivery notes
- Quality control
- Sales orders
Products that include it.
How we would put it in.
Questions owners ask about work order management.
What if our supervisor will not touch a computer?
Then he need not. Most shops keep one tablet at the store window, and either he marks the stage or the store clerk marks it while issuing material. If nobody on the floor touches a screen, the board runs a day behind, and it is fairer to say so now.
Is a whiteboard still enough?
For four or five jobs at a time, yes. It fails when jobs run into double figures, when two people promise dates to the same customer, or when nothing on the board explains why a job has not moved since Monday. Share your requirements and we will look at how your board is used and which of those is you.
Can it take our sales orders from our accounting software?
Yes, where the software allows an export or connection. Orders and item masters come across, and finished quantities can go back as stock entries. Your accountant keeps his ledgers where he likes them.
What about work we send outside?
That goes out as job work against the same order. Each load sent to the galvanising plant is booked out on a delivery note, so any pieces still at the plant show as pending on that job.
What affects the price of a work order module?
Stages, products and users matter. Bill of materials, production planning, stock, quality control and job work notes all add work as links, and outside work adds more. Priced separately is the stage board.
How quickly can the floor start working from it?
Your stages and item list decide it. The floor release covers the work order, stage board, material issue and output booking. Stage names and sample orders come from you, and the schedule of work in the proposal carries dates.
Businesses that ask for this.
Modules that work with it.
Tell us how you handle work order management today.
A spreadsheet, a register or another system: say which, and we will tell you plainly what is worth changing.
What happens after you share your requirements
- A senior engineer reads your answers. Nobody phones first.
- Within one business day you get a written note: what we understood, what we would start with, and the questions we still have.
- If it fits, a proposal follows with the order of work, what we need from you and what you receive at each step.
- No call is booked and nothing is paid until you have read the note. Your details stay with us.
Start with your requirements
Seven short steps that tell us what you need. A senior engineer reads them before anyone gets in touch.
Share your requirements