From bill of materials to invoice in one system. No silos.
ERP and automation for manufacturing companies. Production, purchasing, warehouse and sales fully connected. So you plan capacity instead of fighting fires.
Sound familiar?
Six typical places where manufacturing companies lose time, money and energy. If any of these hit home, let's talk.
Bills of materials in Excel. Nobody knows which version is current.
Every product variant has its own file. Versions are sent by email. Who knows which BOM is active? Only the person who last saved it. And even they're sometimes not sure.
Capacity planning happens in people's heads. Not in the system.
Who uses which machine when is written on slips of paper or known only to the shop floor manager. When he's sick or on holiday, the overview is gone. Deadlines are guessed, not planned.
Production and sales don't talk to each other.
Sales promises delivery dates that production doesn't know about. Production starts jobs without knowing what's most urgent. Both work in silos instead of from a shared status.
Materials are always missing when they're needed.
Purchasing orders by gut feel. Either too much because stock levels are unclear, or too late because nobody saw a part running low. Production stops because one type of fastener is missing.
No idea what a product actually costs.
Material costs, machine time, setup effort: everything runs somewhere but nowhere together. Nobody knows at the end whether a part was produced at a profit or a loss. Pre-costing happens before the order. Post-costing never.
On-time delivery suffers. Customers complain.
Dates are promised, then pushed, then pushed again. The reason is always different: material shortage, machine breakdown, capacity problem. The customer only notices their order is late.
There is a better way.
The onboos way
Understand first. Then structure. Then connect.
We don't start with the software. We start with your operation. What you need depends on how you manufacture, not on which system is trending right now.
Understand first.
We look at your production. How do jobs flow through the shop, where do bottlenecks arise, where does information get lost? Before we discuss software, we understand how your operation actually works.
Then structure.
We bring bills of materials, production orders and capacity into one system. We are partners with reybex, JTL and Exact Premium Online and recommend the one that fits your production depth and size. Not the one with the highest margin for us.
Then connect.
Production, purchasing, warehouse and sales run in one system. Materials are automatically planned, deadlines are visible, post-costing happens by itself. You work on the operation, not in it.
What we deliver
What we do for manufacturing companies
Four building blocks. Bookable individually or as a complete project. You decide what you need.
Understand first.
Then choose the
right ERP.
The guide that starts with your processes. 80 questions across 11 chapters. Plus an Excel scoring matrix as a bonus.
By David Tatzl
Founder, onboos
Understand first. Then choose the right ERP.
We wrote down what we walk through with manufacturing companies again and again. 32 pages, industry-specific, without sales talk. So you can judge for yourself what really matters when selecting an ERP.
Our ERP expertise in manufacturing
ERP systems that have proven themselves in manufacturing.
We work with three systems that have proven themselves for manufacturing companies in the DACH region. Which one fits depends on your production depth, company size and complexity. We recommend what fits you.
Not sure which system fits your operation?
On our first call we'll look at your production processes together. By the end you'll know which of the three systems really fits. Or whether none of them do.
Transparency about our business model
onboos is an official partner of all three systems and receives a commission from the vendor when we broker a licence. Our recommendations stay vendor-independent. We recommend the system that fits your operation, not the one with the highest margin for us. If none of the three fit, we say so.
What clients say
Manufacturing companies we've worked with.
Honest assessments from owners and project leads in manufacturing. With reybex, JTL, Exact and more.
«Shopify couldn't track our inventory properly - we needed an ERP. When orders exploded, our small team had no time to set up Xentral ourselves. onboos was recommended by Xentral and implemented everything professionally and with industry-specific expertise. Our workflows are optimized now and we finally have operational transparency.»
Dominic Dietziker
CEO, Headshop GmbH
How it works
Four steps from first conversation to a stable manufacturing operation.
The detailed path depends on the system you choose. A reybex rollout runs differently from an Exact setup. Here is the overall frame.
First call
We listen. Where do you lose time, what is already working, what is not? You leave the call with an initial assessment and a clear suggestion for next steps.
You know whether and where we can help.
Quick check
We look at production processes, BOMs and existing systems in detail. You get a written assessment with a clear recommendation. No glossy slide deck, just concrete next steps.
Black on white, which path makes sense for you.
Delivery
Either targeted automations that solve a concrete problem. Or a structured ERP project with analysis, configuration, BOM setup, data migration and training. We stick around until it runs.
Production, purchasing and sales connected. Capacity visible. Materials planned.
Stabilisation and operations
We stay close in the first weeks after go-live. Whatever surfaces in real operations, we fix. After that we agree together whether you need ongoing support.
You work on the operation, not in it anymore.
Detailed process by system:
Start small or rebuild the whole system. Both are clear paths forward.
Which one makes more sense depends on your situation. We'll figure it out together on the first call.
Automations and AI-supported workflows
We build the connections your standard integrations don't cover. Manual steps get automated. Where AI makes sense, we use it deliberately.
- Automatic purchase suggestions from MRP
- Capacity warnings at bottlenecks
- Production orders automatically from sales orders
- Post-costing and cost analysis without manual effort
ERP implementation or migration
From requirements to go-live. We pick the right system, set up BOMs and production planning, migrate data and train your team. Clear scope, clear milestones, clear close-out.
- Analysis and system selection
- BOM setup and production configuration
- Data migration and training
- Support in the first weeks after go-live
Prices depend on system users and effort. You'll get concrete numbers on our first call, once we can size up scope and the system you want.
Book your first callFrequently asked
What manufacturing companies ask us most often.
Before you commit to working with us, you want clarity. These are the questions that come up again and again.
Often yes, with the right configuration. Most manufacturers think they're too individual for standard software, but 80% of processes are the same across all companies. What is genuinely individual, we determine in the quick check. Then you know whether standard is enough or whether customisation is needed.
For manufacturing companies we typically plan for two to six months from kickoff to go-live. More complex setups with multi-level production take longer. We stay close in the first weeks after go-live until operations are stable.
Yes, but that's part of the project. We help you structure and clean up your BOMs before entering them into the system. This is sometimes the most effort-intensive part, but also the most valuable. After that you have a clean foundation for everything else.
We migrate products, BOMs, suppliers, open orders and inventory movements in a structured way. We clean the data with you beforehand. Anything no longer needed stays archived in the legacy system.
You can start step by step. We often begin with the biggest pain point, for example material planning or capacity visibility, and build from there. A full ERP switch comes when the current system truly is the bottleneck.
For manufacturing companies with 5 to 20 system users we plan project costs of CHF 12,000 to 35,000 depending on system complexity and production depth. On top come the ERP vendor's licence costs. You'll get concrete numbers on the first call.
Let's look at your operation together.
30 minutes. Free. You leave with at least one concrete idea you can act on next week. If we're not the right fit, we say so too.
Our promise
You get an honest assessment. If your current system actually fits and you just need an automation, we say so. If a different ERP beyond our three is the better match, we recommend it anyway.
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