Software for high-tech: small series, high demands.
High-tech manufacturers build products that aren't finished while the factory is already running. Engineering and production interleave, series are small, tolerances tight and the chain long. Standard ERP is built for repetition — exactly what's scarce here.
Where it pinches in high-tech
- Products differing per revision while the ERP knows one part number.
- Prototype building and series production fighting over the same people and machines.
- Knowledge living in the heads of a handful of engineers.
- Chain partners each bringing their own portal and format.
How SupplyUp helps here
In environments like additive manufacturing and new vehicle development we've seen how fast a system landscape fragments when the product changes monthly. The reflex is more system; the answer is usually sharper process and lighter, fitting tools.
Knowledge bases and configuration apps are the sweet spot here: capturing the experience of your best engineers in software the rest of the organisation actually uses. Sparqbox grew out of that corner.
Worked with and for: Additive Industries · Lightyear
Questions from high-tech
Our product changes every month. Does ERP even make sense?
Yes, but a more modest ERP than you think: finance, purchasing and inventory standard, and the fast-changing engineering reality in flexible tools alongside — instead of custom ERP poured in concrete.
How do you capture knowledge without creating a dead wiki?
By putting the knowledge base inside the work process instead of next to it: linked to parts, orders or machines, with ownership per topic. A wiki dies; a tool that answers at the moment of the question doesn't.
Can you handle confidentiality and NDAs?
Of course. References on this site are deliberately kept general; details are only shared with the companies' consent.
Which process is in your way?
Describe it in a few lines. Within one working day you'll hear whether it fits in 48 hours — and if so, the clock starts.
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