# Manufacturing Software in Southend-on-Sea > Manufacturing Software for businesses in Southend-on-Sea. CubeERP covers Southend-on-Sea and Chelmsford, Colchester and Basildon, with on-site implementation and support from our Olney office. **URL:** https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/manufacturing-software/essex/southend-on-sea Southend-on-Sea is comfortably within a morning’s drive of our Olney office, which means implementation here is done in person rather than over a screen share. That matters more than it sounds: most of what a system needs to know is learned by standing in the building. ## Details - **Solution:** Manufacturing Software - **Group:** Production - **Platform:** CubeERP (https://cubeerp.co.uk/platform) - **Location:** Southend-on-Sea, Essex - **Distance from our Olney office:** 74 miles - comfortably within a morning’s drive of our Olney office - **Postcode districts:** SS0, SS1, SS2, SS3, SS9 - **Also known as:** Manufacturing ERP, Production software, Works order system, Factory management software, Manufacturing management system, Shop floor control software ## Coverage We cover Southend-on-Sea and the surrounding area, including Town Centre, Westcliff-on-Sea, Leigh-on-Sea, Eastwood and Thorpe Bay, across the SS0, SS1, SS2 and SS3 postcode districts. We also work with businesses in Chelmsford, Colchester, Basildon and Braintree and elsewhere in Essex. ## What is included - **Multi-level bills of materials:** Assemblies, sub-assemblies, phantom levels, alternates and revision control - with where-used enquiry so you know what a component change affects before you make it. - **Routings and operations:** Operation sequences with set-up and run times, work centres, machines, skills and sub-contract steps, including parallel and overlapping operations. - **Works orders that live:** Issue, book, split, part-complete and close works orders, with shortages flagged before the job is released rather than discovered at the machine. - **Shop-floor booking:** Touchscreen terminals or tablets for clock-on, quantity completed, scrap reason and downtime cause, so the data comes from the floor rather than a weekly transcription. - **Traceability built in:** Batch and serial numbers carried through every level of the build, with certificates and test results attached, giving full genealogy in both directions. - **Cost as it happens:** Material, labour, machine and sub-contract cost accumulating against the works order in real time, compared with the estimate that won the job. ## Real-world use cases ### A whiteboard as the production system **Scenario:** A 60-person manufacturer scheduled from a magnetic whiteboard. It worked when everybody could see it, and stopped working the day a second shift started and half the team never walked past it. **Outcome:** The board is now a screen in three places, fed by works orders and shop-floor bookings. Priorities change once, centrally, and the second shift starts the right job. ### BOMs in a drawing office **Scenario:** Bills of materials lived in CAD exports and a spreadsheet maintained by the design team. Purchasing frequently bought to a superseded revision, and nobody found out until assembly. **Outcome:** BOMs are held with revision control and effectivity dates, and purchasing buys from the live revision. Obsolete-part purchases dropped to close to zero. ### Scrap that was never counted **Scenario:** Scrap was replaced from stock without a record. It was known to be "a few percent" and it was never quantified, so nobody could tell whether a process change had helped. **Outcome:** Scrap is booked with a reason code at the operation. Two causes accounted for most of it, one of which was a tooling issue fixed in a fortnight. ## Figures - **Live** Cost and progress from the shop floor - **Full** Genealogy, both directions - **Mixed** Make-to-order and make-to-stock together ## Frequently asked questions **Do you support make-to-order and make-to-stock?** Both, and mixed-mode - which is what most businesses actually run. Stocked items replenish to a plan while bespoke items are built against a specific order, on the same shop floor and in the same system. **Can it handle configured or bespoke products?** Yes. A configurator generates the bill of materials and routing from options and dimensions, so a one-off can be quoted, planned and built without an engineer rebuilding the BOM by hand each time. **What about sub-contract operations?** Sub-contract is a routing operation like any other. The purchase order is raised against the works order, material issued to the sub-contractor is tracked, and receipt books straight back into the job. **Will the shop floor actually use it?** It has to be quicker than what it replaces or it will not be. Booking is a large-target touchscreen or a scan, typically two or three taps, and it is designed for gloved hands and poor light rather than an office desk. **Do you integrate with machines or MES?** Yes, via the API and webhooks. Machine counters, test rigs and existing MES layers can post completions and downtime directly, and we would rather integrate a system that already works than replace it for the sake of tidiness. ## Related solutions - **MRP Software** - Net demand against stock, work in progress and inbound purchases to produce a buy list and a make list you can actually act on. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/mrp-software/essex/southend-on-sea - **Production Planning Software** - Schedule works orders against real capacity - people, machines and shifts - and see the effect of a rush job before you accept it. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/production-planning-software/essex/southend-on-sea - **Job Costing Software** - Know what every job actually cost - materials, labour, sub-contract and overhead - while it is running, not six weeks later. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/job-costing-software/essex/southend-on-sea - **Stock Control Software** - Multi-location stock with bin locations, barcode scanning, batch and serial traceability, and figures that are right first time. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/stock-control-software/essex/southend-on-sea ## Elsewhere in Essex See https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/manufacturing-software/essex for manufacturing software across Essex. ## Contact - **Product:** CubeERP - **Trading name of:** Cube Systems Limited (company number 17220899, ICO registration number ZC216972) - **Email:** hello@cubeerp.co.uk - **Sales:** sales@cubeerp.co.uk - **Support:** support@cubeerp.co.uk - **Telephone:** 01234 672 617 (+441234672617) - **Address:** Unit 11, Olney Business Park, Osier Way, Olney, Buckinghamshire, MK46 5FP - **Opening hours:** Monday to Friday, 9am to 5.30pm - **Part of:** Crushed Ice Group (https://crushedicegroup.co.uk)