00Manufacturing & production
Turn RFQ intake and floor capacity into one system your planners run.
Aptixx builds the intake, planning, and reporting software manufacturers need once the business outgrows a shared inbox and one planner's spreadsheet. Every build starts with the workflow on the floor and ends with the report that used to be assembled by hand.
01The problem
Growth outpaces the spreadsheet holding it together.
- 01RFQs and order intake arrive by email, phone, and walk-in, with no single record of what came in or when.
- 02Production and capacity decisions live in one planner's spreadsheet, rebuilt from memory every week.
- 03Capacity questions get answered by gut feel, because there is no model to run the numbers against.
- 04Quality and production evidence gets assembled after the fact, when a customer or auditor asks for it.
02What Aptixx builds
One system covers intake, capacity, and the evidence trail.
Intake & production workflow
RFQs, orders, and job stages tracked in one system instead of an inbox, so status is a lookup, not a phone call.
Capacity & planning models
The planning rules that decide what the floor can take on, turned into a model you can re-run instead of a spreadsheet only one person understands.
Quality & production evidence
Inspection records and production reports captured at the source, so the evidence exists before anyone asks for it.
Aptixx keeps the same order on every operational software build — workflow first, then the calculation, then the report that comes out of both for free.
03Capability: planning models
Capacity planning becomes a model your planners re-run.
Aptixx builds staffing and capacity models with locked inputs, what-if scenarios compared side by side, and Excel in and Excel out — so the planning math is reviewable instead of trapped in a workbook. Production planning runs on the same mechanics.
The same discipline is written up under calculation and planning products, and the sprint that proves a contested model first is the Pilot Evidence Sprint.
04Who this fits
Time lost to intake, planning, and evidence is the signal.
If quoting waits on an inbox, if capacity lives in a workbook one person can open, or if quality evidence gets assembled the week a customer asks for it, that is the pattern Aptixx builds for. The moves are the same on any floor: map the workflow, model the capacity, capture the evidence at the source.
Those three moves run a marine draft-survey platform in production today — see field and marine operations.
05How it starts
The build gets priced from a mapped workflow, not an estimate.
A paid discovery sprint maps the workflow as it runs — RFQ intake, planning inputs, reporting requirements — and hands back a build definition with a budget band attached. MVP scope is set on that evidence.
The fit call takes 20 minutes and costs nothing. If a sprint is the wrong move for your floor, you hear that on the call rather than after an invoice.
Next step
Bring one workflow off the floor.
A 20-minute fit call on RFQ intake, capacity planning, or production evidence — and a straight read on whether software is worth building for it.