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Manufacturing Software Development Company

An ERP-integration, CPQ, dealer-portal, and shop-floor engineering practice. NetSuite- and SAP-aware integration, EDI workflows, GS1 barcode and RFID tracking, ISO-9001-aware quality flows. All shipped from NY + Delhi on a six-week cadence.

since 2017
115 people · NY + Delhi HQs
2,000+
brands shipped · 55+ countries
48 h
written scope after first call
§ 01 · what we build

What we build for manufacturing.

We build eight shapes of manufacturing software, all anchored to the ERP you already run. That matters because manufacturing software fails in places generic web work never visits. The batch job syncs overnight while your sales team quotes against yesterday's inventory. The quoting spreadsheet lives in one estimator's head. The dealer channel stalls at email-and-PDF ordering.

These eight shapes cover most of what plant operators and industrial distributors bring us. Each one extends your ERP, never a rip-and-replace. Every engagement runs on the six-week cadence, with a written scope inside 48 hours of the first call.

01 · ERP

ERP customization & integration.

NetSuite- and SAP-aware integration layers expose inventory, contract pricing, credit limits, and order writeback to your portals in near real time. The overnight batch job retires.

Make the ERP work for you →
02 · assets

Equipment & asset tracking software.

Barcode- and RFID-driven tracking of tools, dies, fixtures, and fleet assets. Check-in and check-out, maintenance histories, and utilization reports end the radio-call hunt.

Stop losing track of assets →
03 · quoting

Quoting & CPQ software.

Configure-price-quote flows encode your engineering rules, volume breaks, and margin floors. A spec becomes a priced quote in hours, not a week of estimator email.

Quote in hours, not weeks →
04 · channel

Dealer & distributor portals.

Self-serve ordering with per-account contract pricing, NET-30 terms, approval routing, and reorder-from-history. This is the workflow that lifts a dealer channel past the manual-processing ceiling.

Let dealers serve themselves →
05 · visibility

Production dashboards.

Throughput, WIP, scrap, and OEE pulled from the ERP and shop-floor sources into one live surface. The production meeting argues about decisions, not spreadsheets.

See the floor in real time →
06 · quality

Quality management workflows.

ISO-9001-aware NCR, CAPA, and inspection workflows with full audit trails. Nonconformances get owners and deadlines instead of a binder.

Make quality auditable →
07 · catalog

Parts catalog software.

Structured spec, fitment, and interchange data with search and filtering that actually works. It replaces the PDFs and part-numbers-in-page-titles pattern that quietly kills catalog conversion.

Make the catalog searchable →
08 · field

Field service apps.

Offline-capable mobile apps for technicians: work orders, parts lookup, service history, and photo documentation that syncs back to the ERP when the signal returns.

Put the ERP in the truck →
§ 02 · standards & integrations

Standards-aware by architecture.

Standards-aware means the architecture, not a certificate. ISO certification is a status your company earns from a registrar. No software partner can hand it to you.

What an engineering partner does control is whether your systems make audits, EDI onboarding, and ERP projects cheap or expensive. We build for cheap: structured data, documented interfaces, audit trails from day one.

trading partners

EDI workflows.

Purchase orders, advance ship notices, and invoices exchanged on ANSI X12 transaction sets. Onboarding a big-box or OEM trading partner becomes configuration, not a rebuild.

identification

GS1 barcode & RFID.

Asset and inventory identification built on GS1 standards: GTINs, serialized labels, and RFID reads that stay interoperable with every carrier and customer downstream.

quality

ISO-9001-aware quality workflows.

NCR, CAPA, and document-control flows structured around ISO 9001 requirements. Aware, not certified. Your registrar audit becomes evidence-gathering, not evidence-inventing.

engineering data

CAD file handling.

STEP, DXF, and drawing PDFs attached to quotes, work orders, and revisions with versioning. The shop floor machines the current rev, not the one from the March email thread.

data

GDPR-aware data handling.

Dealer and customer records handled with data minimization, deletion workflows, and consent records aligned with EU data-protection law. It matters the day you sell into Europe.

integrations

NetSuite · SAP-aware ERP integration.

Deep, documented integration against NetSuite and SAP-aware interface patterns. Inventory, pricing, credit, and order writeback tuned to minutes of sync lag, built on primary documentation.

§ 03 · challenges → how we solve them

Manufacturing stalls in predictable places.

Four bottlenecks show up in almost every industrial operation we audit. Each has a structural fix. Each fix pays for itself in the coordination hours it deletes.

challenge 01 · quoting overhead

Every custom order costs hours of email.

Spec capture by email thread means slow quotes and estimator burnout. We encode the rules into a CPQ or configurator flow. In the Detroit archetype, that cut coordination per custom-build order from 8 hours to under 1.5. Custom-build orders climbed from 3% of total to 22%.

challenge 02 · channel ceiling

The dealer channel is capped by manual processing.

Email-and-PDF ordering caps the channel at whatever inside sales can type. A self-serve portal with contract pricing and NET terms removes the ceiling. The Detroit archetype grew active dealers from 30 to 78 in 12 months. The B2B industrial archetype moved self-serve share from 18% to 55%.

challenge 03 · ERP silo

Overnight batch sync makes everything stale.

Nightly ERP sync means quoting against yesterday's inventory and days-long confirmations. We tune integration to minutes. In the B2B industrial archetype, NetSuite sync landed under 15 minutes and the order-to-confirmation cycle fell from 72 hours to 18.

challenge 04 · trapped data

Spec data lives in PDFs and product titles.

Spec data trapped in titles and datasheets breaks search, filtering, and reorder. We restructure it into typed fields the catalog, quoting flow, and field app all read. That restructure moved parts conversion from 0.9% to 2.4% in the Detroit archetype.

§ 04 · the money question

How much does manufacturing software cost?

Manufacturing software runs from $30,000 for an MVP to $1M+ at enterprise scale. A CPQ tool, a dealer portal, or a production dashboard is SaaS-shaped software, so the honest ranges follow build stage. An MVP that replaces the spreadsheet runs $30,000 to $80,000 over 10-16 weeks.

A post-PMF-equivalent platform runs $80,000 to $200,000 over 16-26 weeks. Scale-stage builds with SSO, RBAC, and audit logs run $200,000 to $500,000 over 24-40 weeks. Enterprise builds with multi-region deployment cross $500,000 to $1M+.

ERP integration usually lands in the first two stages. The connector and sync tuning is weeks of work, not a platform bet.

The full stage-by-stage math, including the build-vs-buy table that saves $150K+ on most scale builds, lives in our SaaS development cost guide. For a field service app, the mobile app development cost guide covers native and cross-platform ranges.

stagetimelinemarket range
MVP / pre-PMF10-16 weeks$30K-$80K
Post-PMF16-26 weeks$80K-$200K
Scale24-40 weeks$200K-$500K
Enterprise32-52 weeks$500K-$1M+

Scope moves price, not the conversation. Every quote arrives in writing within 48 hours of the intro call, itemized by build shape.

§ 05 · featured case study

A Detroit heritage brand, 5.1x in 18 months.

Industry archetype · drawn from patterns across multiple Detroit automotive aftermarket and Motor City heritage engagements · brand identity composite
MRR trajectory
5.1x

$80K to $410K MRR in 18 months.

AOV
$148

From $89 pre-engagement, on bundle and custom-build attach.

dealer accounts
30 → 78

Active dealers over 12 months after the B2B portal shipped.

custom-build orders
22%

Share of orders with a custom-build configuration, from 3%.

The pattern starts with an automotive aftermarket operator at $80K MRR. Fitment data sat trapped in product titles. Custom builds were quoted by email at 8 hours of coordination per order, and the dealer channel was stuck at 30 accounts on an email-and-PDF workflow.

Sixteen weeks and five workstreams changed that: structured fitment data, a build configurator, a dealer B2B portal, drop mechanics, and vehicle-cohort email. Read the full Detroit Motor City archetype, or see the ERP side of the discipline in the B2B industrial supplier archetype: NetSuite sync under 15 minutes, an order cycle cut from 72 hours to 18, and reorders compounding at 4.2x first-order GMV.

exploded spec view · structured component data · the layer every build reads from
§ 06 · how we ship

Five steps, six-week cycles.

The cadence is the contract. Every build runs in six-week cycles with a demo every Friday, so you watch the software grow weekly instead of hoping at the end of a quarter.

  1. 01

    Discover.

    A 30-minute call on your ERP, your order flow, and the bottleneck that hurts most. The written scope covering build shapes, timeline, and fixed fee lands inside 48 hours of that first call.

  2. 02

    Design.

    Weeks one to two: the data model, the ERP interface map, and a clickable prototype of the quoting or ordering screens. Everything gets validated with the estimator before production code.

  3. 03

    Build.

    Weeks two to five: senior engineers on a staging environment you can click from day three. Friday demos, ERP sandbox wired early, sync jobs tested against edge cases like partial shipments and credit holds.

  4. 04

    Launch.

    Week six: phased cutover, top accounts first, never big-bang. Monitoring goes live, runbooks are handed over, and the old workflow stays warm until the new one carries real orders.

  5. 05

    Optimize.

    The next six-week cycle is scoped from live data: quote turnaround times, dealer adoption, sync-lag telemetry. Not from a backlog written before the portal had users.

§ 07 · the manufacturing stack

Boring where it counts, sharp where it differentiates.

Industrial software rewards proven primitives: typed languages, relational databases, and integration patterns with real documentation. The novelty budget goes on your workflow, not the plumbing.

Next.js React React Native Flutter TypeScript Node.js PostgreSQL Supabase NetSuite SAP-aware Celigo EDI / X12 Redis AWS Vercel
§ 08 · why Digital Heroes

Why manufacturers pick us.

01 · senior teams

NY + Delhi, honestly remote-first.

115 people across two HQs and three satellites since 2017. No bait-and-switch juniors , the engineers on the call are the engineers on the build.

02 · overlap

Timezone coverage that compounds.

US mornings overlap Delhi evenings, so an integration blocker raised at your standup is often resolved before your next one.

03 · cadence

Six weeks, demoed every Friday.

The cadence is public and non-negotiable. You see working software weekly; a slipping build has nowhere to hide by week two.

04 · pricing

Transparent numbers, published.

Our cost guides print real ranges before you ever book a call, and every scope arrives itemized in writing within 48 hours. Clutch 4.9, Upwork Top Rated Plus.

05 · operators

We run our own ERP.

Our own 115-person business runs daily on an ERP we built , orders, roles, audit trails included. We know what a broken sync costs on a Tuesday; that instinct ships with your build.

§ 09 · three ways to work with us

Pick the shape your roadmap needs.

project

Fixed-scope build

6-14 weeks

One build shape , a dealer portal, a CPQ flow, an ERP integration , scoped, priced, and shipped on the six-week cadence. Best when the outcome is nameable.

most picked
retainer

Product retainer

monthly cycles

A standing senior pod running successive six-week cycles , portal features, integration hardening, and dashboard buildout scoped from live operational data each cycle.

extension

Team extension

3-12 months

Senior engineers embedded in your standup, your repo, your review process , useful when IT owns the ERP and needs build capacity around it.

Seven answers.

How much does manufacturing software development cost?

Manufacturing software follows SaaS cost stages. An MVP , a CPQ tool, a dealer portal, an asset tracker , runs $30,000 to $80,000 over 10-16 weeks. A post-PMF-equivalent platform runs $80,000 to $200,000; scale-stage with SSO, RBAC, and audit logs runs $200,000 to $500,000; enterprise multi-region builds cross $500,000 to $1M+. Every engagement starts with a 30-minute call and a written, itemized scope inside 48 hours.

Can you integrate with our NetSuite or SAP ERP?

Yes , integration around the existing ERP is the default shape of our manufacturing work. The ERP stays the system of record; portals, dashboards, and field apps read from it and write back through documented interfaces. In the B2B industrial archetype, NetSuite sync ran under 15 minutes via Celigo and cut the order-to-confirmation cycle from 72 hours to 18. SAP work follows the same interface-first, SAP-aware pattern.

Are you ISO 9001 certified?

Certification is a status your company earns from a registrar , no software partner can transfer it, and we won't pretend otherwise. What we deliver is ISO-9001-aware architecture: NCR, CAPA, inspection, and document-control workflows with owners, deadlines, and complete audit trails, structured so the evidence your auditor asks for is a report you run, not a binder you assemble the week before.

How long does a dealer or distributor portal take to build?

A portal with contract pricing, NET terms, approval routing, and reorder-from-history typically runs two six-week cycles, with the ERP connector wired in the first. Cutover is phased , top accounts first, never big-bang. The payoff pattern from our archetypes: active dealers from 30 to 78 in 12 months, and self-serve share from 18% to 55% once buyers can order without emailing a rep.

Can you handle CAD files and engineering data?

Yes. Quoting and work-order flows carry STEP files, DXF exports, and drawing PDFs as versioned attachments tied to a revision, so the floor always machines the current rev. We also restructure spec and fitment data into typed fields that search, filtering, CPQ rules, and the field app all read.

Do you support the software after launch?

Yes. Launch includes monitoring, alerting, and incident runbooks , a dealer portal that goes quiet on a Monday morning is a revenue event. Most operators continue on a product retainer: six-week cycles scoped from live data such as quote turnaround, dealer adoption, and sync-lag telemetry. Teams taking it in-house get documented architecture and a transition window where our engineers pair with yours.

We sell wholesale online , is this the right page?

Depends on the job. This page covers custom software around your operation , ERP integration, CPQ, asset tracking, production dashboards, field apps. If the goal is selling wholesale through an online storefront with company accounts, tiered pricing, and NET terms on a commerce platform, start from our B2B wholesale practice instead. Many manufacturers need both; the 30-minute call sorts which rail your bottleneck sits on.

Start with a manufacturing build audit.

A 30-minute call on your ERP, your order flow, and the bottleneck costing you the most hours. You leave knowing which build shape fits and what it costs; the written scope follows within 48 hours.

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