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Why choose Factory Superstar ?

Running a small manufacturing business is hard. You often find you spend more time dealing with admin rather than making the things that make you money – you need to make sure your team is doing the right thing at the right time (and doing it fast enough), while making sure you have exactly the right amount of stock, all the while trying to charge exactly the right price for your products.

It’s hard to keep up, and it leads to lower profits, higher lead times (and being late for customers), and ultimately no time to spend on chasing new sales or new product development.

Factory Superstar automates this admin side of manufacturing. You add an order to the system and it works out exactly what you need, when you need it, and how much it costs to produce and how long it will take. It tells your team what subcomponents they need to order, and when they’re in stock it tells them what to make and in what order and in what priority, via low cost screens you place in your workshop.

All the while it’s feeding back the production status to you so you can see at a glance how production is going. It saves you money and frees up time that you can spend on producing more, or growing your business.

Digitise the Factory Floor

Tell your production team exactly what to make, and when. Track production status in real time. All you need is an internet connection and a device with a web browser.

Unparalleled Inventory Control

What do you have in stock? How much is it worth? What have you ordered? What do you need to set-aside for upcoming orders? Do you have enough life left in your tooling? Track inventory down to the inch, the milliliter, the gram.

Make any Product

It doesn’t matter if you’re making candles or computer chips. Factory Superstar has the basics right, which means it can be used for making anything.

Unrivalled Cost Tracking

Have an assembly which has X subcomponents, Y subassemblies, each of which has Z sub-subasssemblies?

No problem. Instant cost tracking for every stage in the process. Supplier increased their prices? Taken care of.

Superlative Lead Time Estimation

You’re making a large batch of a complex component. Some subcomponents are partly in stock, some not; it’s the same for some sub-subcomponents. How long will it take to produce? Now you know. Instantly.

Bespoke Items Simplified

Straightforward customisation like a change in length? Simply choose the length, we calculate the costs, lead times, and tell your team what to do.

More complicated? No problem. Drag and drop to configure, we do the rest.

Access Anywhere

Factory in the Mexico, you’re in the USA, customer service in the Philippines? Or maybe you’re just on vacation and a customer has asked what’s happening with their order.

Doesn’t matter. View your factory details from anywhere.

Unrivalled Quoting

Need to cost a new product? Drag and drop to configure, and instantly get costs and lead times.

Going ahead with the quote? We tell you what you need to order, and tell your production team exactly what they should make.

Easy Labelling

Instantly print labels for any order or stock component, with QR codes automatically generated – scan with your mobile device to quickly see the history of the item.

Security and Persistence

Stored remotely, your data is backed up – keep all your production records in one place.

Customer is re-ordering a bespoke item made years ago? No more digging through paperwork. Just add it to an order, the system will work out what you need and tell your team what to do.

Quick to Learn and Use

You don’t have time to learn a new computer system, and your team are makers, not computer people.

Factory Superstar is quick to learn and even quicker to use – the user should see everything needed and nothing more.

(Don’t let the simplicity fool you – we keep the complex stuff to ourselves).

Make Better Decisions

Everything is tracked, so everything can be analysed.

How many orders have I sent with this courier? What’s the cost history of this component? Who’s our 12th biggest customer? How much did profit did we make on this order?

Multi-Channel Sales

Sell through your own online store, through distributors, drop shipping, eBay, Amazon, or sales agents?

Add as many sales channels as you need. Keep track of their performance, and even customise their labels based on what return addresses need to be shown.

Never Lose Track of a Purchase

You’re making things and running a business too – you have a lot of deliveries.

Quickly generate a purchase order for everything you buy (however small), and we’ll tell you if it’s late to arrive. (We’ll also track how long it took to arrive, and how much it cost this time so we can work out accurate costs… but we’re not going to show off about that).

Add Your Team

Add and remove team members at a moment’s notice, no email required.

You can even set it up so when you login it goes to a particular process so you can have a screen for every workstation.

Oh, and we realise some things are sensitive… certain information (like costs) are only shown to users you’re happy showing them to.

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WHAT WILL YOU MAKE?

The Future of Manufacturing.

Our team have spent years in workshops around the world, designing, analysing, and tweaking Factory Superstar so that it is, quite simply, the best software available for managing your manufacturing processes.

Whether you make candles in your spare time to sell at craft fairs, or you have a team of twenty making computer chips around the clock, Factory Superstar will revolutionise the way you manage your business.

Make Anything.

Candles? Computer chips? Whatever you make, Factory Superstar can handle it.

Track Everything.

Inventory. Production status. And instantly see how much time and money it costs to produce something, even for bespoke products.

Be Late for Nothing.

When to order supplies? When to make a component? When to prioritise an order? Sorted.

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Factory Superstar automates the admin side of smaller manufacturing businesses.

It tracks sales, inventory, and production, even for bespoke products. It calculates how much time and money it takes to produce something. It tells your production team what to do and when via screens, computers, or mobile devices you place in your workshop, and allows you to view production data from anywhere in the world.

It could be called ‘MRP’ or ‘manufacturing ERP’ software, but it is quite simply the best investment you will make.