Capability 11 · Production
Production is moving.
The ERP only shows part of the story.
A live production view built on top of your existing ERP — for teams running the floor on whiteboards, spreadsheets, printouts, and side conversations.
The situation
The information exists — but not in the way the team works.
The ERP holds the data. But the shop floor does not live inside ERP screens all day. People need to see what is happening right now.
Which orders are waiting? Which jobs are active? What is delayed? What needs attention? Where is the bottleneck?
The information is all there. It is simply not shown in the way the team actually runs the day.
The challenge
ERP is good at record keeping. Not always at operational visibility.
To understand the day, teams reach for whiteboards, spreadsheets, printouts, and quick conversations. That creates two versions of reality.
There is the official system, and then there is the actual production flow on the floor.
When those two drift apart, planning slows down and corrections become manual — and nobody is quite sure which version to trust.
The capability
A live view on top of the ERP — without replacing it.
We build a production view that sits on top of the ERP. The ERP stays the source of truth; the new layer shows the live workflow in a format people can actually use.
Orders, jobs, statuses, priorities, delays, and exceptions all become visible in one place — the floor and the office working from the same picture.
The team does not replace the ERP. They get a clearer window into it.
How the flow works
Before / after
Production status is pieced together from ERP screens, spreadsheets, whiteboards, and conversations.
People ask around to work out what is actually happening on the floor.
The team sees the operational picture in one production view, while the ERP stays in place.
The workflow becomes easier to follow, and the floor and office share one source.
Controls
- The ERP remains the source of truth
- Visible fields are defined up front
- User permissions are controlled
- Status updates are logged
- Sync rules are agreed before anything is built
- Exceptions and delays are highlighted
- Manual overrides stay visible
- Views are built around real production roles
Where this applies
What changes
Questions about production views
Why do we not already know what is happening on the line?
The data usually exists, but it is split across systems and read at different moments. A live view is less about new sensors and more about connecting what is already recorded and putting it in one place.