Industrial manufacturers live in the bill of materials: an engineering change ripples into stock, open orders and production; a deviation on the floor needs containment before the batch moves; a supplier's quality incident needs an 8D.
Industrial manufacturers live in the bill of materials: an engineering change ripples into stock, open orders and production; a deviation on the floor needs containment before the batch moves; a supplier's quality incident needs an 8D. The systems are SAP or Oracle with a manufacturing execution system beside them. The apps that matter most are the engineering change request with its live impact, nonconformance and corrective action on mobile screens, the supplier 8D on a portal, production schedule changes with their effect on customers, and the maintenance orders raised from incidents.
Each opens its catalogue entry, with the objects read in each system.
Finds purchase order lines that will arrive late, gives each to its buyer with the supplier's reply, and updates the order once a decision is made.
Takes a new supplier from the first request to an approved, usable vendor record in the ERP, with every check and signature recorded.
Routes each requisition line through value-banded approvals with a live budget check and a buyer's source check, and sets the release code back in the ERP.
Opens a case 90 days before a purchasing contract expires, shows consumption against target value, and carries the renew, renegotiate or lapse decision through legal and the category lead.
Scores every supplier each month from receipts, quality notifications and invoices, and opens a corrective action with the supplier when the score falls below the threshold.
Picks up every supplier invoice blocked for a price or quantity variance, gets the buyer's or receiver's answer, and releases the block or requests the credit note.
Runs the monthly sales and operations planning cycle as one app: demand review, supply review, reconciliation and the executive meeting, on the live plan.
Shows each supplier the forecast and open order lines for its parts, collects committed dates and quantities, and writes the confirmations onto the schedule lines in the ERP.
Finds stock with cover above a threshold or a long idle time, gives each position to its planner with the options, and posts the decision in the ERP.
Tracks every part of a new product through the readiness gates each function owns, reading the material, BOM, routing, source, inspection and price records live until launch.
Runs the daily shortage meeting on live projected stock: planning, sourcing, sales and the plant allocate scarce components to orders and write the decisions to the ERP.
Takes a change request from the engineer's form through a live impact on BOM, stock and open orders to the review board, and creates the change number in the ERP.
Takes a deviation reported on the floor through containment, root cause, corrective action and an effectiveness check, with the notification, blocked stock and batch status kept in the ERP.
Lets a planner move firmed production orders on a live schedule, shows the effect on components and customer dates, collects the signatures and writes the new dates to the ERP.
Turns a quality notification against a supplier into an 8D case the supplier works on a portal screen, with blocked stock, return delivery and closure recorded in the ERP.
Takes a produced batch from complete inspection results through QA review to a usage decision, sets the batch status in the ERP and produces the certificate of analysis.
Looks up a serial number, shows the coverage from the warranty and the sale, decides the claim and creates the service order for the repair or replacement.
Lets a customer request a return, checks eligibility against the order line and the warranty, creates the return order, and releases the credit once the goods arrive.
Lets carriers book dock slots against inbound orders and dock capacity, checks trucks in at the gate, re-slots late arrivals and posts the goods receipt from the dock.
Finds deliveries that will miss the customer's requested date, shows the cause, offers expedite, split or a new date, and records the customer's confirmation on the order.
Turns a count that differs from the book quantity by more than the tolerance into a case: recount, investigate the movements, post the adjustment from the floor.
Collects each function's view of a new material on its own screen, checks duplicates and completeness, and creates the record in the ERP when every view is released.
Handles changes to bank details, addresses, terms and blocks on customer and supplier records with evidence, a callback, four-eyes approval and write-back to the ERP and the CRM.
Takes proposed price changes with their margin and volume impact through approval bands and writes the condition records to the ERP and the CRM price book with the right validity.
Runs quality rules on live master data, routes each failing record to its steward with the fix options, and writes the correction back to the ERP.
Takes a capital request with its business case through plant controller, division and group approval, checks the investment budget, and creates the appropriation in the ERP.
Takes a manual journal entry with its support documents through checks, review and approval by amount band, and posts it to the ledger on approval.
Runs the monthly variance review on the live ledger: each cost center owner explains the lines above threshold, controllers consolidate, and the CFO sees the top 20.
Takes a request for a higher credit limit from the seller through the credit analyst to the approver, updates the credit profile and releases the orders the new limit covers.
Runs the close as a shared checklist per entity and day, with each task's status read from the ledger and every sign-off recorded.
Routes every quote whose discount passes the band to the sales manager and then pricing, and returns the approved status and discount to the quote.
Takes a customer complaint from the first contact to a resolution the customer has been told about, with the order lines and prices checked in place.
Turns a service request into a dispatched visit: the dispatcher picks the engineer and parts, the engineer closes the job on mobile, and the service order is confirmed for billing.
Runs the quarterly review of each key account on live orders, quotes, credit and returns, with the account team, the sales director and the executive sponsor on their own levels.
Tracks every audit finding to closure with its owner, actions and evidence, and shows the control test result on live data so audit can see the fix working.
Takes a safety or environmental incident from a report on a phone through classification, investigation and corrective actions to closure, with the regulator report where the rules require one.
The apps read whichever of the listed systems you run; each catalogue entry has a page per system with the objects and the write path.
Each app is 2 to 10 working days to production-grade; bundles run in waves of three or four apps.
The story linked above describes an engagement; a reference conversation can be arranged with the account owner's approval.
Bring one process from your industry; the demonstration runs the app on data shaped like yours, on the systems you run.
