Systemize
Capture the real route: stations, confirm gates, who can release a work order, and what evidence closes it.
Manufacturing
The line already knows who released the work. The system usually does not.
The same confirm-and-sign pattern as finance, on the floor: who confirmed the work-order gate, who signed the first piece or the scrap disposition — beside the manufacturing system, not a replacement for ERP.
Request a walkthroughWhere it fails
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Release authority is tribal. A new supervisor invents a local gate.
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First-piece sign-off lives on paper or in a photo in chat.
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Engineering changes land in email. The floor finds out at the first piece.
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The record of who confirmed a deviation is a binder nobody trusts.
3S applied
Standardize
One standard procedure per operation, versioned, with confirm states that mean the same thing on every line.
Synchronize
Keep item, bill of materials, and resource codes aligned so a work order in ERP is the same work order on the tower.
Layers in play
Platform
Workflows · confirm & sign
Gates from payment request to payment order to digital signature, so work moves without chasing inboxes.
Workflows · confirm & signPlatform
Process & SOP
The confirmation matrix: who confirms, who signs, at which threshold — versioned and owned.
Process & SOPPlatform
Control tower
A live finance queue: awaiting confirm, awaiting sign, signed today — built for the Chief Accountant and the controller, not for a presentation.
Control towerPlatform
Master data
Align vendor, cost center, signatory, and threshold so every queue speaks the same language.
Master dataPlatform
Digital migration
Map document families as they run, cut over in windows, and stabilize.
Digital migrationCutover
Start with one line and one process family, for example assembly plus first-piece sign-off. Keep the paper path as fallback for a named window. Stabilize the queues, then take the next line.
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