CONTRACT MANUFACTURING

Every customer's job, separately true

A contract manufacturer runs other companies' products through its own capacity, which means every job carries someone else's requirements, revisions, quality clauses and delivery promises. The moment two customers' work blurs together, margins and trust go with it.

Visibility ERP keeps each engagement separately true. Revision-level tracking and engineering change orders live on the engineering backbone per customer part, so you build to the revision the customer released, not the one from last quarter. Project costing shows requirements, revisions and margins per job and per customer, and finite-capacity scheduling balances competing customer commitments on shared machines with dates the floor can keep.

From RFQ through shipment, quoting and order entry carry each customer's pricing and terms, with online collaboration keeping their engineers and yours on the same revision.

Your customers audit you. The record is ready.

Contract work means living under other companies' quality systems. Certificates of analysis, full lot and serial traceability and revision history accumulate on the shop floor and quality records as the job runs, so when a customer audits, the evidence is the same record the work was done on.

Customer-owned material gets the same discipline. Customer property warehouses, valued at zero, track your customers' inventory in real time, returns come back on RMA orders into a Material Review Board warehouse for disposition, and rework runs as a work order with its costs captured, whether the part ships back or scraps out.

That cuts both ways, usefully: the same data that satisfies the audit shows you which customers, parts and processes actually make money.

Common questions from contract manufacturers

How does Visibility ERP keep different customers' jobs separate?

Each job carries its own customer requirements, part revisions, pricing and costing. Project costing reports margin per job and per customer, so cross-subsidy between accounts is visible instead of hidden in an average.

Does it produce certificates of analysis?

Yes. Certificates of analysis generate from the quality data collected during production, tied to the lots and serials they certify.

How do competing due dates get scheduled on shared machines?

Schedule Advisor shows all customers' load against real work center capacity, so planners resolve conflicts by moving work deliberately rather than discovering the conflict at the due date.

What is the implementation timeline?

Four to six months typically, run by our in-house services team. We have not had a failed implementation since we began in 1988.

Cloud or on premise?

Either one. The same browser-based application runs as managed SaaS or on your own servers.