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Cost Control
Standard vs budget vs actual by product, order and line, with variance explained.
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New · Release 1.0 · 27 September 2026
Commercial, financial and delivery: Sales Orders, Quotations, Contracts, Cost Control, Profitability, Working Capital, and Customer Delivery with OTIF and late-delivery risk.
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- OEEAvailability, performance and quality by machine, line, shift and product, with loss drill-down.
- ProfitabilityMargin by customer, product and order, with final margin forecast before completion.
- Working CapitalCash tied up in raw, WIP and finished goods, with receivables and payables.
- EnergyEnergy per unit, cost and peak demand by plant, line and machine, with anomaly alerts.
- SustainabilityCarbon, water, waste and scrap per product and plant.
- ReportsGenerate a report for the plants in scope — a stored HTML, CSV and Excel file with its run ID, scope, time and delivery evidence.
- Scenario SimulationWhat-if across demand, a machine outage, a late material or an added shift — a transparent capacity, throughput and cost model with saved, reproducible runs.
- PredictionsDemand, failure, quality, lead-time and cost forecasts, each with its confidence and drivers.
- RecommendationsWhat to do next across the plant, with evidence, impact and the owner for each.
- Market IntelligenceLive FX, material prices, economy indicators and market news — the external inputs behind procurement decisions and the plan.
- AI AgentsThe specialists for each stage and where their authority stops — and on an order, a role agent for each job: what it sends on, prepares and carries out, and a goal for Claude or ChatGPT to work through the platform’s tools.
- Autonomous OpsPlan, price, run and prove every process on autopilot — worker mobile hand-off, suggested process times, camera monitoring and the full AI-run lifecycle.
- Digital TwinThe factory as a live model — lines, machines and flow, coloured by status and risk.
- Manufacturing PlaybookThe manufacturing lifecycle stage by stage — the pain at each step and how the platform closes it.
- Connections & inboxEmail, WhatsApp and chat, task tools, Google Drive and OneDrive, ERP and plant systems — messages with suggested replies, approved before they are sent.