A hundred-line bill of materials where one missing component stops the whole build.

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CubeERP for electronics & electrical assembly

ERP for electronics manufacturers and EMS providers - deep BOMs, component shortages, serial traceability and test records.

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Electronics assembly has a specific failure mode: a build of two hundred components is held up by one, and the shortage is discovered at the line rather than at planning.

CubeERP explodes deep, multi-level bills of materials, nets against inbound purchase orders, and flags shortages before a works order is released. Approved alternates, component lifecycle status and long-lead items are treated as first-class data rather than tribal knowledge held by a single buyer.

  • Multi-level

    BOMs with alternates and revisions

  • Pre-release

    Shortages found at planning

  • Per serial

    Components, tests and results

What goes wrong

The recurring problems in electronics

Not every business has all five. Almost every business we speak to has three.

  • One component stops two hundred

    Shortages found at kitting rather than at planning. The build is pulled, the line is re-planned, and the disruption costs far more than the part.

  • BOMs from engineering by spreadsheet

    Design releases a BOM as a file. Purchasing works from a copy, revisions diverge, and parts are bought to a superseded version.

  • Alternates known only to the buyer

    Approved alternate components exist in somebody’s head. When they are away, an available substitute sits on the shelf while the build waits.

  • Test data outside the system

    Functional test results live in the test rig or a folder. Linking a field failure back to its build and components is a manual reconstruction.

  • Long-lead parts planned like everything else

    A 40-week semiconductor cannot be planned on the same horizon as a resistor, but a single planning rule treats them identically until something goes wrong.

What we do about it

How CubeERP is set up for electronics

Configuration, not a separate edition. Everything here is in the same product - it is switched on and shaped during implementation.

  • Deep BOMs with revision control

    Multi-level bills with effectivity dates, where-used enquiry, approved alternates and manufacturer part numbers held alongside your internal codes.

  • Shortages before release

    Kit availability checked against free stock and confirmed inbound orders, so a build is not released into a shortage it cannot recover from.

  • Long-lead planning

    Item-level lead times and safety time, with long-lead components planned on their own horizon rather than a single global assumption.

  • Serial and reel traceability

    Component reels and batches traced into each serialised assembly, so a suspect date code maps directly to the units that received it.

  • Test and inspection records

    Functional test results, AOI outcomes and inspection data captured against the serial number and retained with the build record.

  • API for the line

    Pick-and-place, AOI and test systems can post completions, results and downtime directly, keeping the ERP current without double entry.

In practice

Two situations from this sector

Anonymised, but not invented. These are the situations businesses describe before they change anything.

  • Kitting as the discovery point

    The situation

    An EMS provider found shortages when kits were pulled. Builds were regularly re-sequenced at short notice, and expedited freight was a standing monthly cost.

    What changed

    Kit availability is checked at planning against inbound orders. Shortages surface weeks earlier, and expedited freight dropped to the occasional exception.

  • A field failure with no build record

    The situation

    A batch of units failed in the field. Establishing which component lot they shared required opening returned units, because the build record did not hold component batches.

    What changed

    Reel and batch numbers are captured at build against the serial. The affected population was identified from the system, and the recall was contained to the units actually at risk.

How it happens

What implementation involves

The same five stages whatever you make. Discovery, training and go-live are done on your site, because most of what the system needs to know is learned in the building.

  1. 1

    Discovery

    A structured session mapping how you work now - the systems, the spreadsheets and the bits held together by one person’s memory. We come back with what the platform covers as standard, what needs configuration, and what needs building.

  2. 2

    Configuration

    Your sites, warehouses, price lists, approval limits, document templates, workflows and permissions set up to match the business - not a demo tenant with your logo dropped on it.

  3. 3

    Data migration

    Customers, suppliers, parts, bills of materials, price lists, open orders and stock balances brought across and reconciled. We migrate, you check the numbers against the old system, and only then do we cut over.

  4. 4

    Training & rollout

    Role-based training so the order desk learns the order desk and the warehouse learns the warehouse, with a pilot group first where it makes sense. Documentation and short screen recordings left behind for new starters.

  5. 5

    Ongoing support

    UK support from the people who built the platform, with a named contact, agreed response times, and a product roadmap you can influence.

Questions

What this sector asks first

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  • Yes, from CSV or via the API, with manufacturer part numbers preserved and mapped to internal codes. Revision changes are diffed so you can see exactly what altered.

  • Alternates are held on the BOM line with approval status. MRP and kitting consider them automatically, so an approved substitute on the shelf is used rather than overlooked.

  • Yes, along with reel identifiers and moisture sensitivity level where relevant, traced through to the serialised assembly.

  • Customer-owned material is held and valued separately from your own stock, consumed against the build, and reported back to the customer accurately.

  • Yes. NPI builds, prototypes and volume production run on the same data with different rules, so the transition from prototype to production is not a data migration.

Where to start

The parts that usually matter most here

Related

Sectors with similar problems

If your process really is unusual

Some requirements are specific to one business rather than one sector. Those get built against the same documented API everybody else uses - not bolted on to the side of a database nobody is allowed to look at.

How the platform is built

Electronics

Show us a real job from your electronics operation

Bring one order that went wrong and the paperwork that went with it. That tells us more about whether this fits than any list of features.

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