Industries · Manufacturing
You convert materials and hours into finished goods, and the margin on that conversion is decided by dozens of small events: a scrap rate, a machine running long, a component bought at a worse price. Standard cost hides all of them until the quarter closes.
The operation
A manufacturer converts materials and hours into finished goods, and the margin on that conversion is decided by dozens of small events: a scrap rate, a machine running long, a component bought at a worse price. Standard cost hides all of them until the quarter closes.
The operating reality is that work orders release without the materials to finish them, variance is discovered too late to act on, and capacity is planned in a spreadsheet beside the system. AlpineERP replaces that with multi-level bills of materials, a production plan resolved against real workstation capacity and real material availability, job cards with time and scrap capture, and inspection templates that stop a failed product rather than annotate it.
What matters here
Sub-assemblies, phantom items, scrap and by-products modelled properly, with cost rolling up through every level.
Production plans resolved against real workstation capacity and real material availability, not against optimism.
Job cards with time logs, scrap capture and operator attribution, so the cost of a run reflects the run that happened.
Inspection templates attached to items and operations, with a failed inspection stopping the goods rather than annotating them.
What usually goes wrong
Try building it
Describe the rule you would add and Alpine builds the fields, workflow and permissions for it.
Questions
You can start with inventory, BOMs and work orders and add planning and quality later. The ledger is the one non-negotiable. Everything else lands in waves.
The plan resolves each component to make or buy against capacity and cost, surfacing the reasoning so the decision is visible rather than assumed.
Job cards with time logs, scrap capture and operator attribution replace the tracking sheet, and the cost of a run reflects the run that actually happened.
