A pallet lands on your dock. Before anyone touches it, somebody keys a bill of lading into a screen, writes lot numbers on masking tape, and hopes the count was right. FactoryFlow reads the document, prints the labels, and checks the physical count against it — then stops and waits for your receiver to sign.
| SKU | Qty | Lot | PO |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUMP-HOUSING | 40 EA | LOT-2608A | MATCHED |
| SEAL-KIT | 80 EA | LOT-2608B | MATCHED |
| BRKT-STL-14 | 120 EA | LOT-2609C | OVER PO |
PUMP-HOUSING_LOT-2608ACODE 128 · IDENTIFICATION ONLYSEAL-KIT_LOT-2608BCODE 128 · IDENTIFICATION ONLYBRKT-STL-14_LOT-2609CCODE 128 · IDENTIFICATION ONLYPUMP-HOUSING|LOT-2608A|40ACCEPTEDSEAL-KIT|LOT-2608B|80ACCEPTEDSEAL-KIT|LOT-2608B|80DUPLICATE — IGNOREDBRKT-STL-14|LOT-2609C|108EXCEPTION · QTY 108/120Three lines extracted, three labels printed, three lots verified against the physical pallet, one exception raised. A receipt proposal is built and waiting.
Inventory has not moved. Nothing has been posted.
Move the sliders to your plant. The math is shown underneath so your controller can argue with it — that is the point. We would rather you find a small number now than a made-up one later.
Assumes FactoryFlow removes 70% of document handling and half the hunting, and catches most count and lot errors on the dock instead of at the invoice. Those are the two assumptions worth arguing about, so they are written down instead of buried.
A slider is not proof. Week one of any pilot is spent taking a baseline, because without a before number there is no after number:
At day 30 you get the same four numbers again, side by side. If they didn't move, they didn't move.
Not the whole plant. One workflow — usually dock to first machine. We map the trigger, the documents, the decisions, and where the output has to land.
Week 1 · baselineOperators keep doing what they do. FactoryFlow runs the same receipts in parallel so you can see where it agrees, where it flags, and where it is wrong.
Weeks 2–3 · parallelWhen the numbers hold, the tool takes the paperwork and the receiver takes the decision. Then we look at the next lane — or we don't.
Week 4 · findingsReads the vendor document, keeps the evidence for every field, matches it to the open PO, prints Code 128 lot labels, and verifies the physical pallet by scan.
Dock to first machinePhoto of the license plate, photo of the scale. Gross, tare, net, stable, zeroed — all checked against the released lot and the BOM target before it counts.
Production consumptionBefore a scanner is trusted on the floor, it runs seven physical test cases and the result is written down. Pass or fail, with the configuration recorded.
Hardware sign-offItem master import, column mapping, and blocking validation before anything goes live — with no ERP credentials asked for and no connection made.
Setup, before day oneMost shops we talk to are not ready to rip out what they have. That is a legitimate position, so it is one of the two supported ones.
One operational system of record: items, locations, lots, inventory transactions, receiving, transfers, vendors and POs, customers and sales orders, pick/pack/ship, scanning, audit log.
Keep your ERP. Drop one FactoryFlow tool onto the workflow that is bleeding, and let it hand a clean, reviewed record back to the system you already paid for.
The fastest way to lose a plant is to let software silently move inventory. So the boundary is a product decision, not a setting — and it holds in every tool.
Every workflow ends at a reviewed export. Live posting is not enabled, and turning it on is a separate, deliberate integration — never a default.
Image-only and scanned documents are detected and flagged for handling. They are never quietly treated as an empty receipt.
Onboarding collects configuration only. Any payload carrying a password, token, or key is rejected by the contract itself, not by policy.
The receiving tool binds to the local machine and refuses a network address unless someone explicitly asks for one. Your vendor documents stay on your hardware.
No operator ranking, no productivity surveillance, no candidate or resume scoring. The audit trail exists for the material, not for managing your crew.
Handwriting and image reading and direct scale hardware are not connected yet. When a capability is a prototype, the tool says so on screen.
Not a trial account. A bounded pilot on one workflow, with a written finding at the end that tells you whether to expand it or kill it.
One lane, chosen together. Default is dock to first machine. If your pain is production consumption or transfers, we start there instead.
Scanners configured and accepted. Make, model, connection, and suffix behavior tested against your real labels before anyone relies on them.
Your rules, written down. Overage, shortage, UOM, lot, expiration, damage, quarantine, approval. Software cannot infer these and should not try.
Operators trained on the floor. Fifteen minutes, at the station, in the words your crew already uses.
A findings review. Baseline against day 30, what worked, what didn't, and an honest recommendation — including "not yet."
Manufacturing software has a long history of being sold by people who have never watched a receiver argue with a driver about a short count. We are not a general automation shop that also takes plant work — the floor is the only thing we build for. We make the narrow thing, put it in front of the person doing the job, and let them tell us it's wrong. Northeast Ohio, in person.
Twenty minutes. Bring a real bill of lading and a real label. We'll tell you honestly whether this is the right lane — or whether your problem is somewhere else entirely.
Serving metal fabrication, custom job shops, and small-to-mid manufacturers in Northeast Ohio.