POM in your industry
ERP & planning for contract manufacturing
Changing customers, changing parts – margins decided in the quote and defended on the floor.
30 days, every module, no contract
The challenges
What it really hinges on here.
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Every enquiry needs a fast, defensible price
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Utilisation decides profitability week by week
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Actual hours per order decide whether you quote it again
Enquiry, quote, utilisation
Margin starts with the quote.
In contract manufacturing, something new comes in every week: a drawing, a quantity, a requested date – often from customers who have never ordered before. POM Sales turns every enquiry into a record with owner, response deadline and status; prospects are recorded before a customer master record exists. Customer 360 shows in one view what POM knows about a customer. And whoever has to do the numbers receives the costing as a task instead of a forwarded email.
The price has to be ready fast and still hold. POM Costing calculates according to your costing scheme with free formulas: material, labour, machine rates, overheads, and margin as a mark-up or a separate line. POM spreads project and batch costs across the quantity scales, and the reverse calculation shows from which quantity a target price is reached. If no quantity reaches it because it lies below the pure unit costs, POM names the lower limit.
Utilisation decides whether a week makes money. On the Gantt board of POM Planning you see capacity per employee and day, and unplanned orders wait in the pool. POM Resources keeps machines with daily capacity and performance level, so planning works with real resources. When a rush order comes in, you drag it into the plan and see immediately which due date it puts at risk – before you confirm it to the customer.
Actual hours decide whether you quote a part again. With POM BDE, time is booked at the terminal, and post-calculation in POM Costing sets the booked hours against the plan. The article analysis in POM Analytics shows frequency, punctuality and actual versus planned time per article. From five feedback records, POM suggests standard times per piece as the median; only someone with the right permission may adopt them. The next quote then rests on measured times.
The modules that fit
Where companies here start.
- Module
POM Costing
Costing schemes with your formulas: material, labour, machine rates, scales – and post-calculation against reality.
from +41 € / month, net Learn more - Module
POM Sales
The CRM in POM: enquiries, prospects, sales territories and the whole customer history on one screen – up to the quote.
from +27 € / month, net Learn more - Module
POM BDE
Shop floor data capture where the work happens: scan, start, stop – and the order knows its actual times.
from +62 € / month, net Learn more - Module
POM Analytics
Operational data turned into answers: on-time delivery, workloads, trends – with drilldown and export.
from +17 € / month, net Learn more
From enquiry to repeat part
How the loop closes.
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Enquiry and prospect
Even a prospect without a customer master record gets a record with owner, response deadline and status. Whoever does the costing receives it from the enquiry as a task.
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Price with scales
The costing scheme calculates material, labour, machine and overheads; quantity scales apply per article and customer. The reverse calculation shows which price delivers the desired margin.
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Quote and order
The order confirmation is created from the quote, and lines and prices carry over. Until it is scheduled, the order waits in the planning pool.
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Production with actual times
Time is booked against the operation at the terminal, and running bookings are visible live. The evaluation shows target against actual per order, employee, workstation and shift.
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Post-calculation and standard time
Post-calculation compares plan and booked hours, and the article analysis shows actual versus planned time per article. With enough feedback, POM suggests new standard times for the next costing.
What POM brings to your industry
Enquiries captured with a deadline and passed on for costing, quotes built with schemes and scales, reality booked at the terminal, and post-calculation that closes the loop back into the next quote.
Quick answers
Questions from practice.
How do I get to a defensible price faster?
With a costing scheme that knows your formulas, instead of a spreadsheet only one person understands. POM Costing calculates material, labour, machine and overheads; material prices including price scales come from the article master, and expired supplier offer prices do not count. Scenarios put variants side by side, and releasing the costing freezes times and material costs, so the quote rests on a fixed basis.
Can I store quantity scales per customer?
Yes. POM Costing keeps quantity scales per article and customer and spreads project, batch and unit costs across the scale quantities. You see which share of the costs falls with quantity and which stays. The reverse calculation answers which price delivers a desired margin; the margin appears either as a mark-up or as a separate line in the scheme.
How do I see whether a repeat part pays off?
With post-calculation in POM Costing: it sets the planned times against the hours booked at the terminal with POM BDE. Across several orders, the article analysis in POM Analytics shows frequency, punctuality and actual versus planned time per article. The customer analysis also shows for which customers delayed orders pile up.
How do I record enquiries from new customers without an account yet?
As prospects in POM Sales. The enquiry becomes a record with owner, response deadline and status, even without a customer master record. If the person responsible is away, colleagues see on the record what is open and by when an answer is due. Later, Customer 360 shows in one view what POM knows about the customer.
Can we try POM before committing?
For 30 days, with every module and no contract. POM runs in your own plant on your own server; we get back to you with your licence key and set up the server together with you. Run a real enquiry through it, from the deadline to post-calculation. Afterwards you book only the modules you need; concurrent sessions are what counts, and user accounts are unlimited.
Built in manufacturing. Built for manufacturing.
Every module, no contract. We set up the server together with you – and you talk to the people who write the software.