Manufacturing software

Manufacturing Software That Runs the Whole Job. Order to Dispatch.

Built for make-to-order manufacturers. Joinery, windows and doors, fabrication, cabinetry. One system from the first enquiry to the invoice going out.

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Kakion manufacturing dashboard showing open orders, production schedule and stock levels
The day-to-day

Where Time, Money and Materials Go Missing.

If you make to order, jobs rarely stall because the work is poor. They stall in the gaps between the office and the floor. Every one of those gaps costs money or delays cash coming in.

  • Work lives across spreadsheets, email threads and shared folders. There is no single view from order to dispatch.
  • Jobs and stock drift out of sync. A build stops because materials were never ordered when they should have been.
  • The paperwork is not done so the job cannot be dispatched or invoiced. The cash just sits there.
  • The office and the floor are working off different versions of the same job.
  • Job costing is a guess. You find out what a job actually cost long after it is done.
One system

One Platform. The Whole Operation.

Kakion's manufacturing software replaces a stack of disconnected tools. Your manufacturing CRM, production management software, job management and quoting all in one place that the office and the floor actually share. It is the order-to-dispatch system a traditional manufacturing ERP never quite delivered, without the cost or the long implementation.

The usual setup
  • Quoting in a spreadsheet
  • Schedule and stock tracked by hand
  • Job folders living somewhere else
  • Invoicing bolted on at the end
  • None of them connected. Details get re-keyed and things slip.
With Kakion
  • Order, quote and schedule in one flow
  • Stock linked to jobs and deducted automatically
  • The floor and the office on the same job
  • Handover, certs and invoicing from the same data
  • One system from order to dispatch
Step 1

Win the Order

Enquiries tracked in one place. Quotes that turn straight into scheduled builds with nothing re-keyed.

  • Every enquiry in one pipeline. Nothing slips and you can see what is coming without chasing anyone.
  • Quoting that becomes the job. When the customer says yes, the spec schedules straight into production. Nobody re-enters it.
Kakion jobs pipeline showing enquiries tracked by stage with an open quote
Step 2

Make and Track Every Job

One source of truth for the office and the floor. Jobs stop slipping in the gaps.

  • Gate stages a job cannot skip. Each step has to be completed before the next one opens. The errors that cost money on your current setup stop happening.
  • Stock management built into every job. Materials are linked to the build and deducted automatically as it progresses. Low-stock alerts raise a purchase order before a shortage holds up production.
  • Job costing from live numbers. Stock valuation feeds real costs so you are pricing from what is actually on hand. You find out what a job cost during the job, not weeks after it finishes.
  • The floor working from their phones. Role-locked sign-off with photos filed straight to the job. No paperwork to chase before a stage can move.
  • RAMS and safety as built-in gates. Compliance is part of the job workflow. The scramble to pull paperwork together at the end of a project stops.
Kakion QC sign-off screen on a phone showing a job checklist with photos from the workshop floor
Step 3

Dispatch, Invoice and Keep Them

Close the job cleanly, get the invoice out and keep the customer for the next one.

  • Handover and cert packs from the job data. Branded and ready to send. Nobody rebuilds a template every time a job goes out.
  • Invoicing that chases itself. The system follows up outstanding payments so your team does not have to. Cash comes in sooner.
  • Customer accounts and aftercare in one place. Full order history to hand so repeat work and service calls are easy. Nothing about the customer relationship gets lost.
Kakion sales orders screen showing a completed order with invoice and handover documentation
The difference

AI Built Into the Workflow.

Our manufacturing software has AI built into the workflow rather than added on top. The result is more capacity without more headcount and a lot less admin.

  • An AI assistant for every role

    Each person has an in-app assistant scoped to their role, answering from your business's own data. They stop hunting for information and get back to the actual work.

  • A daily morning brief, automatically

    Every morning the system sends a rundown on what matters that day. Jobs, orders, stock and overdue invoices. The team starts knowing what is on without a meeting.

  • Paperwork that routes itself

    Document intelligence reads incoming paperwork and files it against the right job or supplier automatically. Supplier invoices, customer queries. Each one lands where it belongs.

Kakion AI assistant and morning brief panel on the manufacturing platform
Our process

How We Work

Four steps · start to finish

  1. Audit

    We map how your business actually runs: workflows, pipeline, content. You see exactly where time, money and leads are leaking and what we’d fix.

  2. Build

    We build the systems, infrastructure or content engine you need - configured for how your business actually works.

  3. Launch

    We roll it out, bring your team up to speed and make sure it works the way you work.

  4. Support

    We stay on call: updates, fixes and improvements as you grow.

Book a Call. We'll Map Where It's Leaking.

Show us the operation and we will show you where one system changes it.

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