Production
Optimize and adapt.
Turn demand plans into coordinated purchasing and builds, closing gaps where schedules slip and quality issues emerge.
What procurement looks like at this stage
The biggest production risks live in the work your ERP does not manage.
The real work happens outside the system
Planning, sourcing, and quality still run through spreadsheets, email, and meetings. Your ERP records the result, but not the work behind it.
Quality and compliance rely on manual checks
Pedigree, quality requirements, approvals, and audit documents are tracked by hand. One missed step can create rework, delay receipt, or become an audit finding.
Supplier issues reach the production floor
A late component, missing document, or quality issue can stop a build. By the time it appears in the ERP, the schedule is already at risk.
What Silkline does at this stage
Silkline sits in the execution layer between the plan and the floor: sourcing, quotes, orders, deliveries, approvals and the compliance file that has to come with them.
Plan
Demand becomes sourcing actions
BOM lines turn into requests and orders against lead times your suppliers have actually demonstrated, rather than the number somebody last updated in the item master.
Track
Automatically update dock dates
Automatically track PO confirmations, collect ASNs, and keep dock dates current. Plan against real dates without chasing suppliers.
Monitor
Scorecards that are already current
Open orders, spend, responsiveness, bid and win rate, quality — updated continuously rather than assembled by hand the week before a quarterly review.
Comply
Certificates that arrive before the parts
Conformance documents collected digitally and linked per order, instead of paper copies in the shipping box. That is what makes dock-to-stock possible at volume.
How production teams configure Silkline
Every plan is $0 per seat. Price follows four things: the capabilities you turn on, the systems you connect, the controls your process needs and the support you want. Here is what that usually looks like at rate.
Capabilities
Plan
Source
Procure
Track
Monitor
Comply
Operate your end-to-end supply chain workflows in one place – from demand planning to SCARs.
Integrations
Email
ERP/Finance
MES
PLM
CLM
HRIS/IdP
Sync data bidirectionally from your ERP, augmented with BOM, planning, and quality data from your MES.
Controls
Basics
Ground Rules
Process control
Flight Rules
Regulated work
Controlled Airspace
Implement rigerous controls and approval policies with support for CUI/FedRAMP.
Support
Self-serve
Solo
Guided onboarding
Copilot
High touch
Mission Control
Guided omboarding with a fast implementation and responsive support.
Find your hidden lead time this week
You can run all of this against your own data, with no new software, and it will tell you how much of your schedule is built on numbers nobody has checked.
01
Export twelve months of purchase order receipts. Six is enough to start if that is all you have.
02
For your top twenty parts by spend, compare the actual time from order to receipt against the lead time sitting in your item master.
03
Flag every part where the two are more than 20 percent apart. Those are the parts your planning runs are quietly wrong about.
04
Add your average requisition-to-order conversion time. That is lead time on every order that MRP was never planning for.