Manufacturing Erp UX Design
$7,200
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4 weeks
The displayed price and timeline are indicative, based on our experience with comparable projects. We discuss the scope, final cost and delivery schedule for each project individually.UITOP designs manufacturing ERP interfaces around the records that move between sales, inventory, receiving and production. A quotation may depend on the dimensions and availability of physical material. A work order may depend on which stock has been assigned. We map these relationships before designing the screens used by each team.This service covers a defined manufacturing ERP workflow or connected group of modules. It fits teams redesigning an existing product and teams adding an operational area to software already in development. The scope follows the records and decisions involved in the chosen workflow.When this service fitsSales needs to see relevant material availability and properties while preparing a quote or order.Warehouse staff record incoming material, create its inventory identity and pass usable information to other teams.Production planners assign stock to work orders and need to distinguish available, allocated and missing material.Related screens have grown separately, so a record or status means different things in different parts of the ERP.Your engineers need agreed interaction rules, states and reusable components for the selected workflow.Your product may cover a different manufacturing process. We select the records, roles and exceptions from your operation before defining the design work.How we examine the workflowWe start with the current ERP or prototype, available process documentation and examples of the records people handle. A working session with your product and operations team establishes where a task starts, who can change a record and what another team needs to see after that change. We also look at existing user feedback or support issues when you have them.Then we trace the agreed task through its connected areas. For a metal service center, a salesperson preparing a quote may need to inspect stock by dimensions, weight, material properties and allocation status. The quote can also depend on processing requirements, freight, cost and margin. A warehouse employee working with the same material needs its purchase order, received quantity, identifying tag and location. A production planner needs to know which material can be assigned to a work order and what is holding the job.We use that record map to decide what belongs on a list, detail view, form or work queue for each role. We define where users can inspect the source of a value, change a status, review a calculation or return to the related order. These decisions shape navigation and screen hierarchy; they also expose product rules that the interface alone cannot settle.States and exceptionsA manufacturing workflow continues after the first successful action. The design scope includes the states relevant to your product: material allocated to another order, a partial receipt, a field that fails validation, a user who cannot approve a change, or a work order waiting for stock. We define what information is visible, which action is available and what confirmation the user receives.When material changes through processing, the original stock and any resulting inventory items may need a visible relationship. We discuss how your ERP represents that relationship before designing the related views. We do not assume that every manufacturer uses the same inventory model, approval policy or production sequence.What you receiveA map of the agreed workflow, user roles and connected business records.Information architecture for the selected ERP area and user flows for its primary tasks.Wireframes to resolve screen structure before detailed interface design.Detailed UI for the agreed lists, forms, record views, work queues or dashboards.Relevant empty, loading, validation, permission and exception states.An interactive prototype that lets your team review the connected task sequence.Reusable components and interaction notes for the engineers implementing the selected area.A short decision log for business rules or technical dependencies that require your team's answer.The first phase can focus on one connected workflow. If your ERP spans quoting, purchasing, production, shipping and reporting, we establish where the chosen phase ends and which shared records later phases will use. That gives the team a reviewable design scope before additional modules are added.Working with your product teamWe can review the current ERP directly and annotate a working prototype. If your designers and developers already use Figma, Claude artifacts or another agreed tool, we prepare the design material in the format they can continue using. A functional artifact can help the team inspect a scenario when a static screen cannot show the relevant interaction. We agree on the handoff format with your engineers and review questions about states or data dependencies during the design phase.UITOP's work on Iron Core shows this approach in a manufacturing ERP for metal service centers, distributors and manufacturers. Our team redesigned workflows across inventory, quoting, receiving, shipping and production. The published case covers material selection while preparing a quote, receiving against a purchase order, inventory-tag information and material assignment in work orders. In a separate project, UITOP redesigned Slabstack's existing software for concrete, asphalt and aggregate producers, including reusable UI patterns for operational work.Share the ERP area you want to improve and an example of the records users handle there. We can define the first design phase around that workflow and its dependencies.