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.

Manufacturing Software in Shrewsbury

Being a regular route for our team from Olney, Shrewsbury is somewhere we get to regularly. Discovery, training and go-live are all better done in the room, and at 95 miles that is entirely practical.

Manufacturing businesses rarely lose money on the jobs they think they lose money on. Without works orders, routings and real time bookings, the estimate is the only cost figure anybody ever sees - and the estimate is a guess made before the job started. CubeERP’s manufacturing modules handle multi-level bills of materials, works order generation from demand, routings across work centres, and capacity planning that shows where the bottleneck really is. Operators book time and materials as they go, from a shop-floor screen or a tablet, so actual cost accumulates against the job while it is still open and the variance is visible before the invoice goes out.

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

What it does

Inside manufacturing software

The parts of CubeERP that make up manufacturing. Everything here shares one data model, so nothing needs re-keying between them.

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.

In practice

Problems this actually solves

Anonymised, but not invented. These are the situations businesses describe to us before they change anything.

Quoting from last year’s costs
The situation
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.
What changed
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
The situation
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.
What changed
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
The situation
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.
What changed
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.

Local coverage

Manufacturing across Shropshire

We cover Shrewsbury and the surrounding area, including Town Centre, Meole Brace, Sundorne, Bayston Hill and Monkmoor, across the SY1, SY2, SY3 and SY4 postcode districts. We also work with businesses in Telford, Oswestry, Ludlow and Market Drayton and elsewhere in Shropshire.

Postcode districts

SY1
SY2
SY3
SY4
SY5

Areas we cover

Town Centre, Meole Brace, Sundorne, Bayston Hill, Monkmoor, Harlescott, Copthorne and Belle Vue.

Getting to you

Roughly 95 miles from our office in Olney, Buckinghamshire. Discovery, training and go-live are done on site as standard - not because it looks good on a proposal, but because most of what a system needs to know is learned in the building.

Manufacturing elsewhere in Shropshire

All of Shropshire

How it happens

What implementation actually involves

The same process wherever you are, and for Shrewsbury it is done in person.

Discovery
A structured session mapping how you work now - the systems, the spreadsheets and the bits held together by one person’s memory. We come back with what the platform covers as standard, what needs configuration, and what needs building.
Configuration
Your structure, sites, roles, approval chains, document templates and permissions set up to match the business - not a demo tenant with your logo dropped on it.
Data migration
Existing records brought across and reconciled: customers, stock, bills of materials, employees, holiday balances, contracts. We migrate, you check, then we cut over.
Training & rollout
Role-based training so people learn the parts they actually use, with a pilot team first where it makes sense. Documentation and short screen recordings left behind for new starters.
Ongoing support
UK support from the people who built the platform, with a named contact, agreed response times, and a product roadmap you can influence.

You might call it something else

Manufacturing goes by a lot of names - if you searched for any of these, this is the page you wanted.

MRP software
Production planning software
Manufacturing ERP
Works order system
Job costing software
Shop floor data capture

Questions

The things people ask first

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.
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.
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.
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.