For manufacturers · built to order per plant · never a day rate
The numbers your planning system is sure about.
You run planning, or materials, or master data, and you already know which of your numbers you do not trust. The system is not wrong so much as nobody has had a clear week to go and check it.
I have spent the last few years on a planning floor, and before that in operations in five other industries. The tools below are the work I do on a weekday: not advice about it.
What you can buy
Seven factory tools, each built to order.
Built to order for your plant, on your own extract, and yours outright: the code, the accounts, and a copy that runs with the internet off. Nothing is built before it is bought and there is no license to renew.
Each runs here on invented data from a fictional manufacturer, with nothing to install and no account to make. Open it first; the arithmetic in it is the arithmetic that would run on yours.
Demand & planning
Production Plan Churn
A week-over-week volatility tracker for the production plan: it separates real reschedules from MRP renumbering noise, attributes each change to planner or system, and pinpoints the materials and weeks taking the most whiplash.
Open it →Order Confirmation Command Center
A command center for order-confirmation rate: it roots every unconfirmed unit to a specific cause, rolls them into five buckets, drills category → cause → line, scores customers by service crisis, and exports a ranked worklist with a recommended action per cause.
Open it →Past-Due Order Triage
A triage worklist for past-due in-house production orders — the ones still signaling false demand for the raw materials MRP keeps procuring. It ages every open order, weights each by size and staleness, and sorts it into one clear action — unfirm, close, verify a partial, reschedule, or leave — with the where-used BOM showing which purchased components each stale order is over-ordering, and a snapshot diff that tells the orders actively confirming apart from the dead ones inflating your stock.
Open it →Inbound & inventory
ASN Update Radar
A daily inbound worklist that picks the firmest arrival date for every open shipment and tells you which to act on — verify receipt, chase logistics, reschedule, or drop — with the vessel and container moves that hit many lines surfaced up top.
Open it →Staging Triage Console
A triage worklist for physical inventory: per-bin integrity checks flag impossible quantities and offsetting errors that net to a believable total, alongside line-side overstaging — each one ready to accept, reject, or defer.
Open it →Master data & parameters
BOM Explorer
A bill-of-materials explorer: field-qualified search across every BOM attribute, reverse where-used lookup for any component, and multi-level tree explosion — with the true per-finished-good-unit quantity rolled up across every usage path and kept separate by site.
Open it →Parameter Audit Console
An MRP parameter-governance console: it audits planning settings — safety stock, lot size, rounding, lot procedure, time fence — against sourcing-tier × ABC × XYZ targets, weights each finding by BOM criticality, flags inventory-health and lifecycle issues, and puts a dollar exposure on every one.
Open it →Or run once
The answer, without the tool.
Or run once. The same tool on one extract of yours, and what you get is the written answer it produced rather than the tool. The audits below are that form, and each names the tool behind it.
A bill-of-materials accuracy audit
Your structures read against what is actually consumed, with every disagreement listed and ranked by what it costs you. Not a sample — the whole set, because the expensive errors are the ones that never looked unusual.
The tool behind it: BOM Explorer
A planning-parameter review against real consumption
Lot sizes, lead times, safety stock and coverage profiles checked against what your own history says they should be. Parameters get set once at go-live and then outlive the demand they were set for, which is why this pays.
The tool behind it: Parameter Audit Console
A factory tool starts at $10,000 per plant.
That is a floor per plant for a tool built to order on your own extract, never a quote. What yours costs is agreed before any work begins.
Each is quoted as a fixed price for one plant, agreed before anything starts. Not a day rate, and not an hourly one: I hold a full-time position, my hours are evenings and weekend mornings, and a day rate would be me selling you time I do not have. A fixed price for a finished thing is the honest shape for that and it puts the risk of it taking longer on me.
Nothing built before it is bought.
No tool here is built speculatively for a plant that has not asked for it, no license is sold, and the demo you can open is the demo: yours runs on your extract and nobody else's.
I do not take this work from appliance manufacturers, and that is in writing before anything begins.