Industry Solutions
Tessera ERP for Manufacturing
Connect finance, inventory, purchasing, and approvals with workflows designed for manufacturing teams.
Key metrics
Overview
What Tessera ERP helps you achieve
A connected operating system for manufacturing organizations: inventory, purchasing, approvals, reporting, and controls in one place.
Production planning tied to BOMs, routing, work orders, and material availability.
Connects inventory, purchasing, and approval workflows for end-to-end operational visibility.
Inventory accuracy across raw materials, WIP, finished goods, bins, and warehouses.
Connects inventory, purchasing, and approval workflows for end-to-end operational visibility.
Quality checks, batch/lot traceability, approvals, and non-conformance follow-up.
Connects inventory, purchasing, and approval workflows for end-to-end operational visibility.
Manufacturing cost variance reporting across labor, materials, overhead, and waste.
Connects inventory, purchasing, and approval workflows for end-to-end operational visibility.
Purchasing controls for supplier lead times, landed costs, reorder points, and approvals.
Connects inventory, purchasing, and approval workflows for end-to-end operational visibility.
Integrations
Manufacturing suite
Connected Tessera workflows for manufacturers
Manufacturing teams usually need ERP, HR, accounting, and attendance controls working from the same operational data. Explore the related manufacturing pages below.
Manufacturing HR & Payroll
Shift payroll, overtime, allowances, employee records, compliance, and plant headcount reporting.
View workflowManufacturing Accounting
Production costs, WIP visibility, supplier invoices, budgets, VAT, cashflow, and plant profitability.
View workflowManufacturing Time & Attendance
Biometric capture, shift rotations, overtime approvals, exceptions, and payroll-ready exports.
View workflowChallenges
Common pain points we solve
Most manufacturing teams struggle with visibility, controls, and reporting. Tessera brings those workflows together.
Stock inaccuracies across raw materials, packaging, WIP, finished goods, bins, and warehouses.
Tessera ERP addresses this with structured workflows, multi-location controls, and real-time reporting.
Production delays caused by missing inputs, unclear work orders, or late supplier deliveries.
Tessera ERP addresses this with structured workflows, multi-location controls, and real-time reporting.
Quality issues without batch/lot traceability, approval history, and rework follow-up.
Tessera ERP addresses this with structured workflows, multi-location controls, and real-time reporting.
Cost overruns caused by weak material usage, scrap, labor, and overhead variance tracking.
Tessera ERP addresses this with structured workflows, multi-location controls, and real-time reporting.
Disconnected purchasing, GRN, supplier performance, and production planning data.
Tessera ERP addresses this with structured workflows, multi-location controls, and real-time reporting.
Workflows
Key workflows for Manufacturing
These are the most common workflows manufacturing organizations implement first for fast ROI.
BOM + routing
Standardized across branches and sites with approval controls and audit-ready reporting.
Work orders
Standardized across branches and sites with approval controls and audit-ready reporting.
MRP/replenishment
Standardized across branches and sites with approval controls and audit-ready reporting.
Quality approvals
Standardized across branches and sites with approval controls and audit-ready reporting.
Batch/lot traceability
Standardized across branches and sites with approval controls and audit-ready reporting.
Production reporting
Standardized across branches and sites with approval controls and audit-ready reporting.
Supplier performance
Standardized across branches and sites with approval controls and audit-ready reporting.
Cycle counts
Standardized across branches and sites with approval controls and audit-ready reporting.
Common use cases
Capabilities
What you get with Tessera ERP
A practical feature set designed for manufacturing teams, with controls and reporting built in.
Sales to invoicing workflow
Handle quotations, orders, deliveries, invoicing, and credit notes with clear controls and drill-down reporting.
Inventory + warehouse visibility
Multi-warehouse stock, transfers, reorder levels, negative stock controls, and stock movement history.
Procurement management
Requisitions, supplier comparisons, POs, GRNs, supplier invoices, and returns with approvals and traceability.
Financial controls + audit trail
Budgets, approvals, VAT/statutory reporting, and audit trails that keep governance consistent across teams.
Item master built for reality
Units of measure, batches/serials, BOM/recipes, warranties, weights, and barcode labeling where needed.
Dashboards + alerts
Operational dashboards and event-based notifications (email/SMS) so teams act faster on exceptions.
Integrations + extensibility
Connect POS, HR, and third-party systems using APIs/files so data flows end-to-end.
Cloud or on-premise
Deploy on your own servers or the cloud, with multi-location central management.
Reporting
Dashboards and insights
Get visibility that helps teams act faster: drill-down reporting, analysis views, and exportable outputs.
Common dashboards & reports
Built for teams
Secure reporting and controlled exports
Share the right view with the right people using role-based access. Export and schedule reports for finance, operations, and leadership.
Modules
Recommended Tessera modules
Start with the core ERP foundation, then add modules that match your manufacturing workflows.
Tessera ERP
Core workflows: purchasing, inventory, approvals, reporting.
Learn moreAccounting & Finance
Reporting, controls, and financial visibility across teams.
Learn moreHR & Payroll
People operations, payroll workflows, and compliance support.
Learn morePoint Of Sale
Sales, stock updates, and branch performance visibility.
Learn moreStories
What success looks like
Outcomes manufacturing teams expect after implementing Tessera ERP workflows, approvals, and reporting.
Inventory and operations in sync
Teams get real-time stock, purchasing, and operational data in one place — no more end-of-week reconciliation surprises.
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Approvals that actually hold
Spend leakage dropped when procurement and approval workflows were standardized across locations with clear audit trails.
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Reporting leadership trusts
Finance and operations teams share the same numbers — drill-down dashboards replaced the weekly manual spreadsheet reports.
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Questions we hear from Manufacturing teams
If you want, we can walk through your exact workflows in a short demo.
Yes. Batch and lot references can be captured from supplier receipt through production, quality checks, rework, and finished-goods dispatch.
Yes. Stock visibility can be configured across plants, warehouses, bins, production floors, and finished-goods stores.
Yes. Tessera can report variance across material usage, labor, waste, overhead, supplier price changes, and production batch output.
Start with inventory, purchasing, work orders, approvals, and reporting, then expand into BOM/routing, quality controls, and production costing.
Get started
Get a manufacturing demo
We will map your workflows, recommend a rollout plan, and show the dashboards your team will use day-to-day.
In the demo
- Inventory, purchasing, and operations workflows
- Approval controls and reporting dashboards
- Implementation timeline + support plan
- Module recommendations for your team
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