MRPLight shows every open job by station, warns you about the ones that will ship late, and checks the shelf for the material they need. The floor keeps it current with one scan when work starts and one when it is done.
Set up in an afternoonJobs, materials and job cost in one placeOne flat price, unlimited people
One column per station. A job sits in its column until the floor scans it Done, then moves on by itself. Nobody walks the shop to find out.
MRPLight learns how long each station really takes from your own scans, so every job carries an estimate next to its promised date. You see the risk before you make the promise, not after you miss it.
| Job | Customer | Station | Promised | Est. ship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #4431 | Example Marine | Paint | Nov 11 | Nov 13 |
| #4442 | Example Builders | Weld | Nov 13 | Nov 14 |
| #4436 | Example HVAC | Paint | Nov 14 | Nov 13 |
| #4444 | Example Brewing | Weld | Nov 17 | Nov 14 |
Reports separate hands-on time from waiting time at every station. The one with the longest wait is your bottleneck, and the place an extra pair of hands pays off first.
| Station | Hands-on | Wait | Wait, compared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cut | 1.2 hr | 2.3 hr | |
| Weld | 3.1 hr | 7.8 hr | |
| Grind | 1.0 hr | 1.9 hr | |
| Paint | 2.6 hr | 13 hr | |
| Pack & ship | 30 min | 1.6 hr |
Tell MRPLight what a product takes. It compares every open job with what is on the shelf and names the jobs that cannot be finished, before they reach the first station. Material comes off the count when the job is scanned in.
| Material | On hand | Open jobs need | Free | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steel tube 2 x 2, 11 ga | 640 ft | 212 ft | 428 ft | |
| Corten sheet 4 x 8 | 6 sheets | 9 sheets | -3 sheets | Short |
| Powder, satin black | 38 lb | 14 lb | 24 lb | Reorder |
| Hardware kit, M8 | 410 | 96 | 314 |
Material comes from the recipe at the price of the last delivery. Labor comes from the time between Start and Done scans. Nobody fills in a timesheet, and you can see which jobs to quote differently next time.
| Steel tube 2 x 2, 11 ga | 44 ft | $96.80 |
| Expanded metal 4 x 8 | 2 sheets | $148.00 |
| Powder, satin black | 3 lb | $19.50 |
| Labor, scanned | 6.4 hr | $268.80 |
| Cost to make | $266.55 a piece | $533.10 |
If your crew can scan a barcode at the grocery store, they can run MRPLight.
Shopify orders arrive on their own. Phone and walk-in orders take thirty seconds to type. Each job gets a plate with its number, station list and QR code, and knows what material it takes.
The plate travels with the work. Pick it up, scan Start. Finish, scan Done. The job moves to the next column and its material comes off the shelf count.
Enter the tracking number. The customer is notified, Shopify is updated, and the job leaves the board. Reports learn from every scan.
Each person signs in to what they need and nothing else.
Overview, board, materials, reports and settings.
Answer the customer on the first call.
Shop code and a PIN. No email, no password.
Connect your store once. Paid orders land on the board as jobs, and shipping a job fulfills the order with tracking.
No per-seat fees, so every floor person gets a login and every scan gets counted.
No, on purpose. MRPLight covers jobs, materials and what each job cost to make. It does not do quoting, invoicing or accounting. Keep QuickBooks or whatever you use for the books.
No. Jobs are tracked from the first day without any. Paste your material list from a spreadsheet when you are ready, and add recipes to the products you make most. The rest can wait.
Not to start. Workers can type the job number on a phone or tablet. Any USB or Bluetooth scanner that acts like a keyboard works out of the box.
A short guide takes a few minutes: pick what you make, confirm your stations, connect Shopify or add a job. Founding shops are set up together with us on a call.
Yes. Type jobs in, paste a list from a spreadsheet, or have a developer send them from another system. Other carts are planned.
Only a status page you choose to send: which step the order is on, the promised date, the current estimate and tracking once it ships. No prices or internal notes.
$99 a month per shop
We are setting up the first shops by hand. Founding shops keep this price for as long as they stay. Month to month, cancel any time.
Or look around the demo shop first.
The demo shop has eleven weeks of jobs, scans and material in it. Nothing to install and no form to fill in.