# Manufacturing Software in Towcester > Need manufacturing in Towcester? Cube Systems implements and supports manufacturing software across Towcester, Northampton, Kettering and Wellingborough and the wider Northamptonshire area. **URL:** https://cubesystems.co.uk/software/manufacturing-software/northamptonshire/towcester Being a short drive from our Olney office, Towcester is somewhere we get to regularly. Discovery, training and go-live are all better done in the room, and at 12 miles that is entirely practical. ## Details - **Solution:** Manufacturing Software - **Platform:** CubeERP (https://cubesystems.co.uk/cube-erp) - **Product site:** https://cubeerp.co.uk - **Location:** Towcester, Northamptonshire - **Distance from our Olney office:** 12 miles - a short drive from our Olney office - **Postcode districts:** NN12 - **Also known as:** MRP software, Production planning software, Manufacturing ERP, Works order system, Job costing software, Shop floor data capture ## Coverage We cover Towcester and the surrounding area, including Town Centre, Belle Baulk, Wood Burcote, Springfields and Shires Estate, across the NN12 postcode districts. We also work with businesses in Northampton, Kettering, Wellingborough and Corby and elsewhere in Northamptonshire. ## What is included - **Multi-level bills of materials:** Assemblies within assemblies, alternate components, phantom levels and revision control - with where-used analysis when a component changes or is discontinued. - **Works orders from demand:** Generate works orders directly from sales orders or forecast, with component shortages flagged before the job hits the floor rather than when someone goes looking for a part. - **Routings and work centres:** Operation sequences, setup and run times, machine and labour rates, and subcontract operations tracked out and back. - **Capacity planning:** Finite and infinite capacity views by work centre, so you can see whether a promised delivery date is achievable before you promise it. - **Shop-floor data capture:** Operators book on and off jobs by scanning, record quantities good and scrapped, and log downtime reasons - from a screen on the floor or a tablet. - **Estimate versus actual:** Live job costing comparing quoted material, labour and overhead against what has actually been booked, with variance visible while the job is still open. ## Real-world use cases ### Quoting from last year’s costs **Scenario:** An engineering firm quoted from a spreadsheet of standard costs last updated eighteen months earlier. Material prices had moved significantly and nobody knew which product lines had quietly become unprofitable. **Outcome:** Bills of materials now cost from live purchase prices, and completed job costs feed back into the estimating model. Two product lines were found to be selling below cost and were repriced. ### Chasing parts on the day of the job **Scenario:** A subcontract manufacturer discovered component shortages when an operator went to the racking. Jobs stalled mid-run and the buyer spent most of the week expediting. **Outcome:** Works orders now run a component availability check on release, and shortages raise purchase requisitions automatically against lead times. Stalled jobs became the exception rather than the routine. ### No idea where the bottleneck was **Scenario:** A workshop was quoting six-week lead times because that is what they had always quoted. Nobody could say which work centre was actually constraining throughput. **Outcome:** Capacity loading by work centre identified a single machine running at 94% while everything else sat under 50%. A second-shift pattern on that one machine cut quoted lead times to four weeks. ## Figures - **Multi-level** BOMs with revision control and where-used - **Live** Actual cost against estimate while the job is open - **Floor-ready** Booking screens designed for gloves, not desks ## Frequently asked questions **Does it handle make-to-order and make-to-stock?** Both, including businesses that do both at once. Works orders can be raised against a specific sales order line, against forecast demand, or to replenish a stocked assembly to its minimum level. **Can we track subcontract operations?** Yes. Subcontract operations sit in the routing like any other, with material issued out to the subcontractor, a purchase order raised for the operation, and the value tracked while the parts are off-site. **What do operators actually use on the floor?** A deliberately simple browser screen - a shared terminal, a tablet or a phone. Book on, book off, record good and scrap quantities, log a downtime reason. It is designed to be usable with gloves on and without training. **How does this compare to a full MRP II system?** It covers the parts that change how a business runs day to day: BOMs, works orders, routings, capacity and costing. If you need finite scheduling with constraint-based optimisation across dozens of work centres, say so during discovery and we will tell you whether we are the right fit. ## Related solutions - **ERP Software** - One system for quotes, orders, stock, production, purchasing and invoicing - built in the UK for growing businesses. https://cubesystems.co.uk/software/erp-software/northamptonshire/towcester - **Stock Control Software** - Multi-location stock control with bin locations, barcode scanning, batch and serial traceability, and stock that is right first time. https://cubesystems.co.uk/software/stock-control-software/northamptonshire/towcester - **Warehouse Management Software** - Directed put-away, wave and batch picking, packing verification, carrier integration and despatch - warehouse management built into the same system as your orders. https://cubesystems.co.uk/software/warehouse-management-software/northamptonshire/towcester - **Purchase Order Software** - Requisitions, approval chains, purchase orders raised from real demand, goods-in booking and three-way matching - purchasing with a paper trail. https://cubesystems.co.uk/software/purchase-order-software/northamptonshire/towcester ## Elsewhere in Northamptonshire See https://cubesystems.co.uk/software/manufacturing-software/northamptonshire for manufacturing software across Northamptonshire. ## Contact - **Company:** Cube Systems Limited (company number 17220899, ICO registration number ZC216972) - **Email:** hello@cubesystems.co.uk - **Sales:** sales@cubesystems.co.uk - **Support:** support@cubesystems.co.uk - **Telephone:** 01234 672 617 (+441234672617) - **Address:** Unit 11, Olney Business Park, Osier Way, Olney, Buckinghamshire, MK46 5FP - **Opening hours:** Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:30 - **Part of:** Crushed Ice Group (https://crushedicegroup.co.uk)