Manufacturing ERP & MES software in Saudi Arabia.

Material requirements planning (MRP) starts from what you have to deliver — confirmed sales orders and the forecast — and works backwards through each bill of materials. It nets off what is already in stock or on order, then tells purchasing what to buy and when, and tells the planner which work orders to release. In a Saudi plant that often means long lead times on imported inputs, so the plan has to look weeks ahead, not days.

Costing is where most factories lose sight of their margin. When cost is calculated once a year in a spreadsheet, nobody sees that one product has quietly become unprofitable. A manufacturing ERP keeps both numbers side by side:

• Standard cost per item, built up from the BOM, routing and labour rates
• Actual cost per work order — materials issued, machine and labour time recorded
• Overhead allocated by machine hour, labour hour or output
• Scrap and waste recorded at the step where they happen
• Planned vs actual variance on every order, posted to the general ledger

Because every work order posts to the same ledger as sales and purchasing, the month-end close stops being a reconstruction exercise — and ZATCA-compliant invoices come from the same system that knows what each order cost.

When a customer complains or a supplier recalls a raw material, the question is always the same: which batches are affected, and where did they go? Answering it from paper records takes days. Answering it from the system takes minutes — provided lots are recorded at every step:

• Raw-material lots captured at receiving, with supplier and certificate
• Each lot consumed against a specific work order and batch
• Finished-goods batch numbers and expiry dates printed on labels
• Backward trace: which inputs went into this batch
• Forward trace: which customers received this batch — the basis of any recall

For regulated products — food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals — the exact data you must keep and report depends on your regulator and product category. We map the system to the requirements you already work under rather than to a generic template, and confirm them with your quality team before go-live.