Factory Core

From the Top Floor to the Shopfloor: What FactoryCore Means for Your Entire Manufacturing Team

FactoryCore is a fully integrated digital operations platform that connects the top floor to the shopfloor for growing manufacturers. Built on SAP Business One, enhanced with Boyum Manufacturing, powered by ALPHA Scan, and supported through FactoryCore Academy, it delivers control, clarity, and consistency across your entire business.

From the CEO to the shopfloor operator, every role gets what it needs:

  • The CEO: Unified performance metrics and scalable growth across sites
  • The CFO: Accurate, real-time cost and margin visibility
  • The VP of Manufacturing: Uptime, scrap, and throughput across plants
  • Plant Teams: Live data, simplified workflows, and fewer errors

FactoryCore eliminates the gaps between planning and execution, spreadsheets and systems, people and processes. Inventory is accurate. Jobs are tracked. Quality is logged. Maintenance is planned. Purchasing is aligned. Logistics flows.

FactoryCore Academy ensures that everyone—from operators to planners to admin staff—learns exactly how to use the system in their role, so change isn’t just deployed, it sticks.

Real results? Customers using FactoryCore have reduced downtime by up to 22%, improved inventory accuracy to 98%, and cut reporting and reconciliation time across departments.

FactoryCore doesn’t just give you software—it gives you a smarter, stronger, more connected business. From the first scan on the floor to the final report in the boardroom, it’s how modern manufacturing scales with confidence.


How FactoryCore Supports Every Role

👨‍💼 CEO

Scalable performance visibility across the enterprise

As CEO, your job is to grow the business while staying lean, scalable, and resilient. But in manufacturing, complexity creeps in fast—different systems across plants, siloed teams, unclear numbers. You can’t lead with confidence if the data doesn’t align with what’s really happening on the floor.

FactoryCore is a unified platform that turns operational complexity into clarity. It brings together SAP Business One, Boyum Manufacturing, and our mobile ALPHA Scan system to connect finance, operations, supply chain, and quality—so you see the full picture, in real time.

  • One system across all sites—scalable, repeatable, and built for growth
  • Live visibility into margins, costs, capacity, and on-time performance
  • Standardized KPIs across finance, operations, and quality
  • Support for M&A integration, multi-site control, and digital transformation goals
  • A workforce that’s trained and aligned through FactoryCore Academy

Typical results: FactoryCore unified multiple plants under a single system. Within 90 days, one company cut inventory by 18%, increased delivery performance by 25%, and gave leadership real-time dashboards aligning finance, ops, and quality KPIs.

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💰 CFO (Corporate)

Financial control + growth readiness

As Corporate CFO, you’re accountable for enterprise-wide financial visibility, governance, and capital strategy. But when plant-level data is fragmented, finance is forced into reactive firefighting—reconciling numbers, tracking variances, and questioning the validity of margins.

FactoryCore gives you a foundation of real-time operational data you can trust—fully integrated from shopfloor transactions to consolidated financials. Built on SAP Business One, enhanced with Boyum Manufacturing and ALPHA Scan, it connects every site to a single source of truth.

  • Real-time margin analysis across products, customers, and plants
  • Standardized costing and inventory control across the business
  • Faster period-end close and intercompany reconciliation
  • Audit-readiness through clear data lineage and compliance tracking
  • Support for strategic initiatives like shared services or acquisitions

Typical results: Financial close time dropped by 30%, inventory write-downs were reduced by $2M, and real-time alerts now flag margin erosion before it hits the P&L.

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🏭 VP Manufacturing

Site-to-site performance alignment

As VP of Manufacturing, you’re responsible for performance across multiple plants—throughput, quality, efficiency, and cost. But with every plant running its own processes and systems, getting timely, trustworthy metrics becomes a struggle.

FactoryCore gives you a cross-plant control center. Built on SAP Business One, extended by Boyum Manufacturing and powered by ALPHA Scan, it standardizes processes while delivering live data from each facility.

  • Standardized KPIs across plants—scrap, yield, downtime, OEE
  • Real-time visibility into production, inventory, and order fulfillment
  • Faster root cause identification and issue escalation
  • Consistent workflows and training across all facilities
  • One platform for scaling continuous improvement

Typical results: Scrap reduced by 15%, on-time delivery increased to 98%, and production meetings are now powered by live dashboards.

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🧑‍🏭 Plant Manager

Predictable throughput, less firefighting

As Plant Manager, you’re under constant pressure to hit throughput, quality, and delivery targets—while staying within cost. But disconnected systems, unreliable data, and inconsistent processes force your team into firefighting mode. The result? Missed targets, late shipments, and overtime.

FactoryCore gives you real-time control of your entire facility. From scheduling to inventory, quality to maintenance, it connects your floor in one simple platform—so everyone is on the same page, every shift.

FactoryCore helps you:

  • Visualize job status, work-in-process, and constraints live
  • Reduce production delays and avoid last-minute rescheduling
  • Ensure raw materials are where they’re needed, when needed
  • Catch quality issues early with built-in inspections and alerts
  • Coordinate across departments—planning, warehouse, quality, maintenance

Typical results: FactoryCore can help your plant eliminate 95% of manual production paperwork, reduce late jobs by 40%, and give supervisors live dashboards that help them catch small issues before they become line stoppages.

FactoryCore gives you a plant that’s informed, coordinated, and performing—shift after shift.

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📊 Site Finance Lead

Costing, inventory, audit speed

As the head of Finance and Accounting at a manufacturing site, you’re constantly reconciling what the numbers say with what’s really happening on the floor. But when production, inventory, and purchasing live in disconnected systems—or worse, spreadsheets—it’s a daily battle to produce accurate, timely financials.

FactoryCore streamlines financial operations with real-time integration from manufacturing, logistics, and procurement. Built on SAP Business One with Boyum enhancements, it delivers clean, audit-ready data from source to close.

FactoryCore helps you:

  • Track inventory values accurately with real-time transactions
  • Reduce month-end close time with fewer journal entries
  • Calculate product costs and variances live—not weeks later
  • Improve vendor reconciliation and accounts payable accuracy
  • Eliminate manual workarounds and duplicated data entry

Typical results: FactoryCore can help your plant finance team to reduce reconciliation time by 60%, eliminate spreadsheet-based BOM costing, and give leadership live visibility into margins, work-in-progress, and aging inventory.

FactoryCore lets you manage plant financials with precision—no guesswork, no lag.

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🛠️ Maintenance Manager

Preventive maintenance, reduced downtime

As the Plant Maintenance Manager, you’re responsible for keeping machines running—but without visibility into usage, work orders, or parts inventory, maintenance often becomes reactive. That leads to unplanned downtime, rushed repairs, and higher costs.

FactoryCore enables preventive and predictive maintenance through integrated work order management, asset tracking, and real-time floor data. It helps you plan better, respond faster, and keep production humming.

FactoryCore helps you:

  • Schedule and track preventive maintenance by asset and usage
  • Log breakdowns and track root causes in real time
  • Ensure technicians have the right parts and instructions
  • Analyze maintenance trends by line, shift, or machine
  • Align maintenance with production schedules to reduce disruption

Typical results: FactoryCore can help you to reduce unplanned downtime by 20% and eliminate 90% of paper-based maintenance logs—freeing up supervisors to focus on improvements instead of chasing tickets.

FactoryCore transforms maintenance into a strategic advantage—not just a necessary cost.

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🧪 QC Manager

Real-time traceability, audit compliance

As the Quality Control Manager, your job is to make sure every product meets spec—and that you can prove it. But with paper checklists, delayed feedback, and siloed test results, catching defects early is difficult, and audits become fire drills.

FactoryCore brings quality online and in-line. With embedded inspections, real-time alerts, and traceability baked into production, you stay ahead of issues while creating a complete compliance trail.

FactoryCore helps you:

  • Trigger inspections at key process steps with mobile data capture
  • Trace materials, components, and batches from receipt to shipment
  • Analyze defect trends by product, supplier, or shift
  • Generate audit-ready quality reports instantly
  • Collaborate with production and engineering to close the loop

Typical results: Using FactoryCore you can eliminate 80% of paper inspection forms, reduce non-conformances by 30%, and in one example a customer passed their most recent ISO audit without a single data gap.

FactoryCore helps you drive quality from being reactive to being real-time—and fully traceable.

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🏗️ Production Superintendent

Job clarity, shift efficiency

As Production Superintendent, you’re the heartbeat of the shift—making sure people, materials, and machines all flow smoothly. But when plans change and systems lag, you’re left reacting to bottlenecks without the information to fix them fast.

FactoryCore gives you live visibility and tools designed for frontline execution. You know what’s running, what’s behind, and what’s next—without relying on paperwork or guesswork.

FactoryCore helps you:

  • See job status and progress by station or operator
  • Reassign tasks and rebalance work-in-process quickly
  • Identify constraints, shortages, and missed scans in real time
  • Enable mobile access to work instructions and quality checks
  • Ensure smooth shift handoffs and accurate reporting

Typical results: Using FactoryCore you can see a 25% increase in first-pass yield and cut average job runtime variance by over 15%, all while simplifying shift startup and job changeovers.

FactoryCore helps you move from reactive control to proactive leadership—every shift, every line.

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🧾 Supply Chain Manager

On-time material flow, fewer shortages

As the Supply Chain Manager, you’re juggling supplier timelines, customer demand, inventory levels, and production plans. But when visibility is limited and updates are manual, even the best-laid plans collapse under last-minute surprises.

FactoryCore brings clarity to your material flow. Integrated with production, purchasing, and logistics, it gives you early warnings, real-time adjustments, and confident planning.

FactoryCore helps you:

  • See material availability against current and forecasted demand
  • Track supplier performance and lead time reliability
  • Align procurement with actual production schedules
  • Prevent shortages and expedite requests before they hurt output
  • Improve S&OP with trusted data from the shop floor

Typical results: FactoryCore can help your plant to reduce material shortages by 35%, improve supplier on-time performance by 22%, and sync planning and procurement teams through shared dashboards and alerts.

FactoryCore helps you go from scrambling to synchronizing—keeping materials flowing and production steady.

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🚛 Logistics Manager

Clean, fast outbound shipping

As the Logistics Manager, you’re the last line before the customer—responsible for accurate, on-time delivery. But if shipping depends on tribal knowledge or disconnected systems, mistakes multiply: missed deadlines, wrong quantities, and unhappy customers.

FactoryCore integrates shipping with inventory, production, and order management. It turns dispatch into a repeatable, reliable process that flows with your operations.

FactoryCore helps you:

  • Automatically stage and pick based on real-time job completion
  • Ensure every shipment matches the order, quantity, and lot
  • Print accurate labels, packing lists, and documentation instantly
  • Track and trace by serial number or batch for outbound compliance
  • Analyze delivery performance and carrier usage

Typical results: FactoryCore can help you to reduce shipping errors by 80%, eliminate manual bill of lading creation, and shrink dock-to-door time by 25%.

FactoryCore makes sure your promise to the customer leaves your dock right—every time.

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🛒 Purchasing Manager

Smarter, timely buying decisions

As the Purchasing Manager, your job is to keep production supplied without overspending or overstocking. But disconnected inventory, unclear demand, and last-minute requests make smart buying harder than it should be.

FactoryCore gives you the full picture—linking procurement to real-time production, inventory, and supplier performance—so you can buy what’s needed, when it’s needed.

FactoryCore helps you:

  • Generate purchase requests based on live material requirements
  • Track supplier pricing, lead times, and performance
  • Maintain optimal stock levels with automated reorder points
  • Align purchases with job priorities and capacity plans
  • Eliminate maverick buying and duplicate orders

Typical results: FactoryCore can help your buyers to reduce inventory by 20% while maintaining 98% material availability—cutting carrying costs and emergency expedite fees.

FactoryCore gives you the tools to shift from tactical purchasing to strategic sourcing.

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🧑‍💼 HR Manager

Faster onboarding, better training and adoption

As the HR Manager at a manufacturing site, your role spans recruiting, onboarding, training, and compliance. But when processes are manual and systems are unfamiliar, new hires get frustrated, and training takes too long to stick—especially on the shop floor.

FactoryCore simplifies onboarding and improves retention by making daily systems intuitive, trackable, and teachable. With FactoryCore Academy, every team member gets role-specific learning that ensures confidence and competence.

FactoryCore helps you:

  • Onboard faster with digital workflows and system access on day one
  • Deliver targeted training for each role, station, or process
  • Reduce operator errors and frustration with clear, guided interfaces
  • Track training completion, certifications, and compliance
  • Support cross-training and career path visibility

Typical results: FactoryCore can help your plant cut average onboarding time by 40%, reduce turnover during the first 90 days, and track full training completion by role, shift, and department through the built-in Academy.

FactoryCore helps your people thrive—because confident employees are productive employees.

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👷 Shop Floor Worker

Clarity, speed, and recognition for their work

As a shop floor operator, your job is to keep production moving—but it’s hard to do that when instructions are unclear, systems don’t work, or mistakes get blamed on people instead of the process.

FactoryCore simplifies your workday. With mobile scanning, clear job screens, and built-in checks, you always know what to do, where to do it, and when it’s done right.

FactoryCore helps you:

  • Get clear digital instructions and job priorities
  • Scan materials, track progress, and log issues in real time
  • Avoid rework and confusion with standardized workflows
  • Feel confident using systems that are fast and role-specific
  • Get recognized for accurate, timely, and safe work

Typical results: FactoryCore helps reduce operator errors by over 50%, improves shift communication, and gives floor teams visibility into how their work contributes to the whole business.

FactoryCore helps operators do their best work—because the system works for them.

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🗂️ Admin Roles

Less paper, fewer errors, better visibility

From scheduling to customer service, document control to cost tracking, admin teams keep manufacturing operations moving behind the scenes. But with data scattered across spreadsheets, whiteboards, and emails, even basic tasks become error-prone and slow.

FactoryCore connects everyone to the same system of truth. Admins can see what’s happening, act faster, and ensure clean handoffs across functions—without constantly chasing updates.

FactoryCore helps you:

  • Access real-time production, shipping, and inventory info without delays
  • Streamline customer updates with accurate job and order data
  • Eliminate manual re-entry of information between teams
  • Simplify reporting and status tracking with one-click exports
  • Ensure consistency across departments with standardized processes

Typical results: FactoryCore can help your site reduce internal miscommunications by 60%, automate job status emails to sales and customers, and cut hours per week from manual data entry and reconciliation.

FactoryCore helps admin teams work smarter—not harder—by making the right data accessible at the right time.

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