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About QZ Infomatics →Request a demoERP solutions built around how your factory actually runs.
Production planning, bill of materials and quality checks configured for your operation, not a generic template that needs constant workarounds. Manufacturing ERP connects production to the rest of the business — bills of materials, work orders, shop-floor recording, quality control, inventory and costing, all sharing one database with sales, purchasing and finance. It answers three questions a factory needs answered daily: what to make, what that needs, and what it actually cost.
Where it starts
Most manufacturers do not have a software problem. They have a data problem that software exposes.
Manufacturing ERP connects production to the rest of the business, sharing one database with sales, purchasing and finance.
Challenges
Eight problems come up in almost every UAE factory we assess. None of them is caused by poor management. They are what happens when production runs on systems that were never designed to talk to each other.
Production planning done in spreadsheets, with no link to confirmed orders or forecast.
Production status known by walking the floor and asking, rather than from a system.
The wrong revision built, because the current one lives in a file somebody renamed.
Or calculated accurately and far too late to act on.
Scrap absorbed into overhead rather than attributed to the batch that produced it.
The most common and most expensive production failure, and almost always one component.
So deferred maintenance looks like a saving rather than a cost.
Servicing happens after failure, which is the most expensive point at which it can happen.
These compound in a predictable order. An outdated BOM produces a wrong material plan, which produces a stockout, which produces a line stoppage that nobody costs — and by the time the margin shortfall reaches the P&L, the cause is three steps back and impossible to isolate.
Coverage
Five areas, configured around your actual production method rather than adapted from a generic template.
MRP works backwards from confirmed orders and forecasts, using the BOM, current stock, open purchase orders and supplier lead times to tell you what to make and what to buy, and by when.
The BOM and routing are the foundation everything else depends on — material planning, production costing and stock deduction all read from them, which is why version control matters more here than anywhere else.
Inspection results are recorded against the batch and the work order, so a quality rejection carries its production cost with it instead of disappearing into overhead.
Raw material, work in progress and finished goods tracked as distinct stages, with yield and scrap recorded at each transition rather than reconciled at the count.
Costing & finance sits across all four: actual material, labour and machine time recorded against each work order, compared against standard, with variance separated by cause rather than reported as a single margin figure — plus job and process costing, multi-plant consolidation and manufacturing-specific VAT and compliance reporting.
Which kind
The first qualifying question in any real conversation, and the one worth settling before a demo rather than after.
Assembles distinct, countable units from components — electronics, furniture, equipment, metal fabrication. Multi-level BOMs, serial number tracking, assembly routings.
Works with formulations, batches and yields rather than units — food and beverage, chemicals, paints, cosmetics, lubricants. Recipes rather than BOMs, batch and expiry tracking, co-products and by-products, yield variance. Food and beverage.
Driven by customer specification rather than forecast — custom fabrication, engineered products, job shops. Each order carries its own BOM and cost, which makes this closer to project costing than to repetitive manufacturing.
Many UAE manufacturers run more than one mode. A fabricator producing a standard range alongside bespoke orders needs both discrete and make-to-order configured in the same system. That flexibility matters more when selecting a platform than depth in any single mode.
Traceability
Given a finished batch, the system identifies every raw material lot and supplier that went into it. Given a raw material lot, it identifies every finished batch and every customer it reached.
For UAE manufacturers this matters most in food and beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and chemicals, where batch traceability and shelf-life control are inspection requirements.
Subcontracting
UAE manufacturers outsource constantly — plating, coating, heat treatment, machining, printing, packing. Material leaves your site, work is performed on it, and it comes back with a service cost attached. This is where inventory accuracy usually breaks.
Maintenance
Preventive maintenance based on run hours or output counts, raising work orders automatically rather than relying on a calendar reminder.
Unplanned downtime recorded against both the machine and the affected production order. That link is what makes deferred maintenance visible as a cost rather than a saving.
Where run hours, vibration, temperature or output are captured by sensors rather than logged by hand. Heat and dust age rotating equipment faster than a European service interval assumes, so imported calendar schedules are wrong in both directions.
UAE compliance
On sales, purchases, scrap disposal and inter-company transfers, with the correct treatment on each.
Which requires cost of goods manufactured to be supportable — and that depends on the BOM and costing discipline above.
Common where a group runs a mainland factory and a free zone operation, with inter-company transfers at cost or at transfer price.
Held as distinct locations with their own customs documentation rather than tagged within one pool.
As the FTA mandate phases in through 2027. E-invoicing.
With hours allocated to work orders rather than a single production overhead account. WPS payroll.
Client success story
Ideal Group's Odoo implementation had stalled before QZ Infomatics was brought in. The engagement covered technical recovery, resolution of outstanding design and configuration issues, stabilisation of the platform, and a successful go-live — followed by ongoing optimisation support as the business grows on it.
Most prospects arriving on a manufacturing ERP page are not starting from nothing. A meaningful share have a system implemented badly, a partner who has gone quiet, or a project that stopped halfway.
Explore in depth
Bills of materials, work orders, capacity scheduling and variance analysis in detail. Production planning.
Multi-location stock, batch and serial tracking, valuation and barcode scanning. Inventory.
For make-to-order and engineered-product manufacturers billing by job. Project costing.
Manufacturing FAQs
Manufacturing ERP software connects production to the rest of the business: bills of materials, production planning, work orders, shop-floor recording, quality control, inventory and costing, all sharing data with sales, purchasing and finance. It answers what to make, what that needs, and what it actually cost.
Discrete manufacturing that assembles distinct units, process manufacturing built on formulations and batches, and make-to-order production driven by customer specification. UAE manufacturers often run more than one mode, which makes flexibility in how work orders and costing are configured more valuable than depth in any single mode.
Standard cost is set from the bill of materials and routing, then compared against actual material, labour and machine time recorded on each work order. Variance analysis separates price, usage and efficiency, so a margin shortfall traces to a specific cause instead of disappearing into overhead.
Yes. Inspection points at goods receipt, in process and before dispatch record results against the batch, with non-conformances routed for disposition. Traceability links each finished batch back to its raw material lots and suppliers, which makes a recall a contained exercise rather than a full production halt.
Yes. Material issued to a subcontractor remains visible as your stock at their location, with the service cost added on return. UAE manufacturers frequently outsource plating, coating or machining steps, and untracked material sitting at a third-party site is a common source of unexplained inventory differences.
Expected yield and scrap rates are built into the bill of materials, and actual consumption is recorded against each work order so variance is visible per batch. Persistent negative variance on one product usually points to a costing assumption that no longer matches how the item is really produced.
Yes. Preventive maintenance schedules based on run hours or output counts raise work orders automatically, and unplanned downtime is recorded against both the machine and the affected production order. Linking maintenance to production makes the real cost of deferring a service visible.
Four to nine months, driven by data rather than configuration. Bills of materials and routings frequently exist only in production staff knowledge, and rebuilding them accurately is the longest task. Most manufacturers go live with finance, inventory and purchasing first, then add production as a second phase.
Talk to a consultant
Book a free 30 minute call with QZ Infomatics in Dubai. You will leave it with a platform recommendation, the reasoning behind it, a realistic timeline and an indicative budget band — before you commit to anything.
