Reliable customer orders
Products, quantities, due dates, priorities and commercial details enter through consistent fields and validation.
Manufacturing and product workflows
Connect orders, production pressure and dispatch without another tracker.
Product businesses often start with one capable order workbook. As volumes, products and people increase, stock checks, production updates, customer promises and dispatch priorities spread into separate sheets and messages. A tailored application can reconnect that operating picture.
A clearer operating picture
See what has been promised, what is blocked and what ships next.
A first version can replace one order-to-dispatch workflow while keeping agreed imports, exports and handover arrangements.
Shared production status
Sales, operations and dispatch can work from one visible status rather than reconciling their own copies.
Attention based on live work
Backlog, due dates, stock pressure, throughput and urgent orders can update from the operational records.
A recognisable order journey
From repeated status checks to one live operating picture.
The system follows the real order-to-dispatch process while removing the updates that currently happen around it.
- Customer order is entered into a workbook
- Stock or capacity is checked somewhere else
- Urgent changes are sent through email or messages
- Teams maintain their own status columns
- Backlog and output reports are rebuilt for meetings
- Order requirements are captured and validated once
- Stock and capacity pressure is surfaced immediately
- Priority changes are visible to the people doing the work
- Production and dispatch share the same current status
- Backlog and output reporting updates automatically
Keep the useful logic
Understand the formulas and macros before replacing them.
Product rules, stock calculations, customer-specific exceptions and reporting logic may already be embedded in the workbook. Mike’s Excel, VBA, database and reporting experience helps separate valuable business knowledge from fragile implementation.
Existing data mappedProducts, customers and history can be migratedExports retainedKeep practical outputs for finance or partnersParallel testCompare calculations before changing over