Software for machine builders who live with change.
Machine building means engineering, changing, and still delivering on time. Every machine is slightly different; every change touches the BoM, the costing and the planning at once. Standard software rarely keeps up — so spreadsheets appear next to the ERP and quietly become critical.
Where it pinches in machine building
- Engineering changes that travel by email and never land everywhere.
- Pre-calculation and post-calculation that never meet.
- Configurations and variants the ERP can't handle without a consulting project.
- Service history per machine scattered across folders, email and heads.
How SupplyUp helps here
For machine builders it almost always starts with the change process or the costing. Through process improvement we capture how engineering, work preparation and purchasing actually cooperate today. Then the route is clear: choose or reconfigure the ERP properly, and catch the processes that fall outside it in targeted applications.
Redline — engineering change management for machine builders — comes straight out of this practice. And an on-call app like the one for Evers shows how fast a service process can be rebuilt: first version in five days.
Worked with and for: VDL · Additive Industries · Knegt
Questions from machine building
Our BoMs are too complex for standard ERP. Recognisable?
Very recognisable, and rarely true. Usually the BoM structure was never explicitly designed — it grew. The solution starts with the structure, not the system. After that, more turns out to fit standard than expected, with targeted apps for the rest.
Can you improve our change process without implementing full PLM?
Yes. Full PLM is too heavy for many machine builders at this scale. A tight change process with a light tool connecting ERP and drawing management covers most of the pain in practice.
What does a custom app for service or costing cost?
Fixed monthly price, cancel monthly, free prototype first. We calculate what it earns you before you spend anything.
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.
Send in your process