What do you make?
Find your trade below. Each one names where the work starts and ends, and the handful of things a general ERP gets wrong on that particular floor. If yours is not here, it is a conversation and not a problem — the list grows by one every time somebody asks.
24 trades
Manufacturing
Manufacturing & Supply Chain Planning · Forecast or sales order to finished goods
Plastics
Resin lot to despatched pallet
- Regrind goes back into the batch
- Cavities are the capacity, not machines
- A mould is an asset measured in shots
- Colour makes a second item from one tool
Chemicals & Specialty Products
Raw batch to certified drum
- Concentration is not quantity
- The by-product is inventory, not waste
- A batch cannot ship without its certificate
- Shelf life decides allocation
Dairy, Juice & Preserves
Raw intake to coded pallet
- The intake is priced on what it contained
- Yield is seasonal and has to be measured
- Released, or not yet sold
- The code on the pallet is the recall
Poultry — Farm to Portion
Day-old chick to packed portion
- One input, many outputs, one moment
- Three weights for one bird
- The farm is already in the cost
- Fresh and frozen are one line and two businesses
Furniture & Joinery
Cutting list to installed room
- Made to measure is the normal case
- Panel optimisation decides the waste
- Finish multiplies the catalogue
- Delivery is assembly
Metal Fabrication
Plate and section to erected steel
- Bought by weight, used by shape
- Offcut and skeleton both have value
- A route, not a step
- Everything in kilos
Ready-Mix Concrete
Mix design to poured slab
- The product expires in ninety minutes
- The mix design is the item
- Trucks and pumps are the constraint
- The cube test arrives a month later
Dry Food Packing
Bulk intake to retail pack
- One bulk, many retail units
- Cleaning loss is real and varies
- Packaging is a bill of materials
- Give-away is a measurable loss
Ceramics & Sanitary Ware
Body preparation to graded pallet
- Shade, calibre and grade are stock dimensions
- The kiln decides the output, not the order
- The product is named after it is made
- Metres, boxes and pallets at once
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
API lot to released batch
- Nothing moves without release
- The batch record is the product
- Expiry drives allocation, not first-in-first-out
- The registration constrains the formula
Paints & Coatings
Resin batch to tinted can
- The last step happens in the shop
- A colour is a formula, not an attribute
- A touch-up from another batch shows on the wall
- Solvents are regulated stock
Packaging — Carton & Flexible
Reel or board to delivered pack
- Nesting decides the yield
- The tool belongs to the customer
- Make-ready is the real cost of a short run
- Reels in, pieces out
Marble & Granite
Block to bundled slab
- The yield is unknown until the block is cut
- Vein-matched slabs stay together
- Area, not quantity
- Grade is decided after polishing
Feed Milling
Formula to delivered tonne
- The recipe changes with the market
- Ingredients are bought on analysis
- Medicated feed leaves residue
- Bulk and bagged from one bin
Apparel & Textiles
Fibre to Rail · Yarn lot to the shop rail
Dyeing & Finishing
Greige roll to approved shade
- The dye lot is the costing unit
- A re-dye is not a rework
- Shade bands travel with the roll
- Weight in, weight out, and the loss between
Garment Manufacturing
Marker to packed carton
- Style, colour and size are one item
- Cutting is a batch, sewing is a flow
- The marker decides the fabric cost
- The buyer's calendar is the plan
Home Textiles & Furnishing
Loom beam to cut length
- Design, colourway and width are three axes
- Sold by the metre, held as rolls
- A repeat has to be matched
- The dye lot reaches the cutting table
Retail & Distribution
Multi-Branch Retail · Branch assortment to fiscal invoice
Building Materials Trade
Bulk delivery to site drop
- Bought in one unit, sold in another
- Delivery is part of the product
- Credit is the business
- Breakage and shrink are normal
Spare Parts Distribution
Part number to fitted vehicle
- The catalogue is the business
- Supersession never stops
- Most lines move slowly, and that is the point
- The counter and the workshop share one bin
Dealership & Aftersales
Dealership & After-Sales · Unit sold to warranty closed
Automotive Service Centres
Booking to released vehicle
- The bay is the capacity
- The estimate is a contract
- One vehicle, many visits
- Parts are reserved when promised
Equipment & Machinery Dealers
Machine sale to scheduled service
- Hours, not dates
- Sale, rental and demonstration from one fleet
- A breakdown is a site visit
- Uptime is in the contract
Contracting
Contracting & Project Delivery · Tender to final account
Healthcare
Clinics & Emergency Care · Appointment to insurer settlement
Agriculture
AgroSmart · Day one of a cycle to cost per unit
Nothing here matches that yet — which is not the same as cannot be built. Tell us what you make and what the system keeps getting wrong, and that is the whole first conversation.
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