Discuss your projectQuotes priced from documented rules, won jobs flowing into the ERP and the shop traveler, and job status visible without walking the floor. Supplier certificates and inspection records stay attached to the job.
Illustration of a job tracking application built by Baybloom for a specialty manufacturer: quotes becoming jobs, jobs released to the floor, and operations tracked per cell.
Owners, general managers, and operations leaders of specialty manufacturers with tens to a few hundred employees, and the sponsors who own them. The ERP handles the ledger and the bill of materials; the daily operation runs on spreadsheets, whiteboards, and a quoting file only one person understands.
The workflow
The steps we see most often in this kind of operation.
What we build
Price configured and custom work from documented material, labor, and finishing rules, with margin visible before the quote goes to the customer.
Record each job’s progress by stage from tablets or scanners at workstations, so sales and customers get accurate status without a walk to the floor.
Put drawings, revisions, and step-by-step instructions on screens at each station, so operators always work from the current version of the job.
Capture inspection results, nonconformances, and corrective actions against the job and lot, ready for a customer audit or a quality review.
Collect material certificates and supplier documents at receiving, link them to lots and jobs, and flag anything missing or out of specification.
Show load by work center against promised ship dates, so planners see bottlenecks and sales can make delivery commitments the floor can meet.
Your first release
How the work runs
We start with the people doing the work and the systems around it, then write down the first release: what it includes, what it leaves for later, the integration decisions, and the acceptance criteria. Nothing is built until that scope is agreed.
We build in releases you can review as the work takes shape, using realistic data. Every release carries tests, a security review, and documentation. Integrations are tested against real records, with exceptions visible.
Your team receives the documentation, the runbooks, and the training to run the system, and we stay on for continued engineering when you want it.
Scope and price
Every project is priced from a written scope. These are the factors that move it most.
Reading orders from the ERP is simpler than writing jobs, materials, and costs back to it, especially on older or heavily customized ERP versions.
More product families, routings, and options mean more pricing rules and traveler layouts to document, build, and test with the people who know them.
Tablets, scanners, label printers, and workstation mounts need selection, setup, and testing in the conditions of the floor, including gloves, dust, and noise.
Customer and industry traceability requirements determine how much lot, material, and inspection detail is captured and how records are retained and retrieved.
Metal fabricator
In a typical metal fabrication shop, the ERP holds the bill of materials and the ledger, quoting lives in a spreadsheet, and job status is a whiteboard near the office. The first release prices the most common product line from documented rules, turns a won quote into the ERP order and the traveler from the same record, and adds a job board by stage updated from tablets at the workstations. Supplier certificates and inspection records attach to the job, so a customer request for them has a clear answer. Material reservations and a customer portal can follow.
Deeper in this industry
Questions
What leaders in this industry ask us first.
No. The ERP stays the system of record for the ledger and the bill of materials. The fitted software handles the workflows around it that the ERP was never good at, and writes the results back.
The first release attaches supplier documents and inspection records to the job so they are retrievable by customer, lot, and date, which is what an auditor or a customer’s quality team asks for.
Make the update one tap at a workstation, and run the morning meeting from the job board. Once the meeting depends on the board, the floor keeps it current.
Yes. The floor screens are built for tablets or mounted displays at each workstation, with large controls, barcode scanning, and only the actions an operator needs. Starting, pausing, and completing a stage takes a scan and a tap, so updates happen as the work moves.
Drawings and instructions are versioned and attached to the job. When engineering releases a revision, open jobs using that part are flagged, the traveler shows the current version, and operators acknowledge the change before continuing, which keeps old drawings off the floor.
Yes. Plants, work centers, and inventory locations are part of the data model from the start. A second plant adds its own routings, users, and reports on the same system, and group reporting compares plants using the same definitions.