Manufacturing ERP on Salesforce
Plan, Build, and Deliver with Complete Operational Control
Built on Axolt's Salesforce ERP platform, manufacturing operations connect demand, inventory, production, purchasing, shipping, and finance in one real-time Salesforce-native system.
Clear to Build validatedMaterials, capacity and lead times checked
Shortage flagged earlyPO suggested from supplier lead time
Manufacturing ERP Built for Business Outcomes
Axolt connects every moving part, from sales demand and materials to production capacity and cost. Teams can make confident decisions using live operational data.
Talk to a manufacturing expertKnow What You Can Build
Using Clear to Build validation, Axolt connects sales demand, inventory, BOM requirements, purchase orders, supplier lead times, and production schedules before manufacturing commitments are made.
Plan Materials Before Shortages Become Delays
Salesforce MRP calculates material requirements from live demand, current stock, open POs, work orders, and supplier lead times, helping teams prevent shortages before production is affected.
Coordinate Manufacturing Execution
Connected production planning helps operations teams coordinate work centres, resources, setup times, and manufacturing execution using live operational data.
Connect Operations with Financial Visibility
Connected manufacturing finance helps finance and operations teams understand production cost, inventory value, and margin impact in real time.
Control Cost, Margin and Delivery
Track materials, labour, routing, work centres, production activity, and inventory movements in one system, giving finance and operations clear visibility into the true cost of production and its impact on margins.
Why Manufacturing Breaks Down
Disconnected systems create blind spots. Axolt replaces guesswork with real-time operational truth.
Disconnected systems
Disconnected PlanningProduction based on guesses, not actual demand.
Material GapsShortages discovered only when the line stops.
Post-Mortem FinanceCost impact seen weeks after shipping.
Spreadsheet ChaosManual data entry leads to errors and lag time.
One connected platform
Live Demand SyncSales and production work from the same live data.
Predictive SourcingIdentify shortages before expensive delays occur.
Real-Time MarginsTrack costs and labour as they happen on the shop floor.
Unified Salesforce ModelOne platform for CRM, ERP, and Finance.
Why Manufacturers Choose Axolt on Salesforce
One platform. Real-time data. Better decisions across sales, operations, purchasing, and finance, without a second ERP system.
One Platform for Sales and Operations
Axolt brings CRM and ERP together on Salesforce. Sales orders, inventory, purchasing, production, shipping, and finance all work from one shared data model.
What goes awayReal-Time Manufacturing Visibility
Get visibility across every stage of the manufacturing process, from customer demand and operational activity to shop floor progress and finished goods.
What you seeBetter Decisions Across the Business
Axolt helps your business answer critical operational questions faster, before issues become customer problems and before delays affect delivery commitments.
What you can answerYour operation should be able to answer these questions in real time
When your teams can't answer these quickly, it's a sign that your systems are disconnected. Axolt closes that gap, giving every team one connected view of demand, stock, capacity, and cost inside Salesforce.
Connect Manufacturing with the Rest of Your Business
Every team works from the same data. No handoff delays. No duplicate entry between systems.
Sales Orders to Production
Turn customer demand into production activity. Sales teams see production status; operations teams plan from real demand.
Purchasing & Supplier Lead Times
Connect material requirements to purchasing workflows: raise POs, manage supplier lead times, and avoid last-minute shortages.
Inventory & Warehouse Control
Connected inventory management tracks raw materials, WIP, and finished goods across locations, aligned with production plans and purchasing.
Shipping & Delivery
Connect finished goods to outbound shipping and customer delivery, reducing handoff delays between production, warehouse, and logistics.
Finance & Cost Visibility
Connected manufacturing finance gives finance teams visibility into production activity, costing, inventory value, purchasing, and billing in real time.
Built Natively on Salesforce
Axolt is designed for companies that already use Salesforce and want to bring operations closer to their customer data, without a separate ERP system or middleware layer.
Because Axolt is built on Salesforce, your manufacturing data connects natively with every part of your existing Salesforce environment.
Accounts & Customers
Manufacturing activity linked directly to customer records and account history inside Salesforce.
Opportunities & Sales Orders
Connect sales pipeline and confirmed orders directly to production planning and inventory availability.
Inventory & Warehouse
Real-time stock levels, movements, and warehouse operations connected to production and purchasing.
Purchase Orders & Suppliers
Raise and manage purchase orders against live material requirements and supplier lead times.
Work Orders & Production
Manufacturing orders, routing, work centres, and shop floor activity tracked in one system.
Field Service & Support
Connect production and inventory data to field service teams and customer support cases.
Shipping & Logistics
Finished goods connected to outbound shipping, carrier tracking, and customer delivery workflows.
Finance & Billing
Production costs, inventory value, and purchasing linked to financial reporting and billing in real time.
Reporting & Dashboards
Native Salesforce reports and dashboards across every module, with no data exports or manual consolidation.
Salesforce Automation & AI
Leverage Salesforce Flow, Agentforce, and AI across manufacturing, purchasing, and finance workflows.
Six Ways Axolt Moves the Needle
Improve On-Time Delivery
Plan production using real demand, available materials and actual capacity.
Reduce Inventory Surprises
Connect MRP, purchasing, inventory and production workflows. Identify shortages before they stop the production line.
Increase Production Visibility
Monitor work orders, schedules, materials and shop-floor progress in real time.
Improve Coordination Across Teams
Give every department access to the same connected operational data.
Reduce Manual Work
Automate quoting, ordering, purchasing, production and inventory workflows.
Make Better Decisions Faster
Use live Salesforce data to identify operational issues before they affect customers.
Core Manufacturing Capabilities
Everything your production team needs, from material planning to the shop floor, running on the same Salesforce data as sales and finance.
Manufacturing Planning with Salesforce MRP
Align material availability with real-time production demand. Connected Salesforce MRP shows manufacturers what is required, what is currently in stock and what they need to purchase.
BOM & Routing
Connected BOM management defines how products are built, including materials, routing steps, setup times, and production resources.
Manufacturing Coordination & Capacity
Connected capacity and scheduling workflows support manufacturing execution using real machine and labour availability.
Manufacturing Orders
Manage the full process of converting materials into finished products. Define production quantity, lead time, status, required materials, work centres, routing steps, and production progress, all in one place.
Manufacturing Workbench
One place for your operations team to monitor production activity, inventory availability, work order progress, and key manufacturing actions, all inside Salesforce. No more switching between spreadsheets, emails, and disconnected systems.
Connected Manufacturing Operations
Manufacturing ERP connects planning, execution, inventory, procurement, and finance while allowing each manufacturing function to operate from the same live Salesforce data.
Axolt Manufacturing ERP provides a connected operational platform while supporting specialized workflows such as MRP, production planning, and manufacturing finance.
Who Is Axolt For?
Make-to-Order Manufacturing: From Quote to Order Margin
In make-to-order manufacturing, the customer order drives production. Evaluate how your ERP carries the product configuration, material requirements, delivery date and costs through one connected workflow.
Quote: map the configuration to a buildable bill of materials and review margin against current cost.
Check: validate materials, supplier lead times and production capacity before promising delivery.
Convert: carry the accepted quote into sales orders and work orders with the correct BOM and routing.
Plan: use MRP to identify shortages and purchase requirements.
Build: record materials, labour and quality results against production activity.
Cost: follow material and labour costs as the order progresses.
Ship and invoice: connect finished goods, delivery, billing and order margin.
Explore Clear to Build validation and Salesforce MRP to see how demand connects to available materials.
How CFOs Should Evaluate Manufacturing ERP
Operational visibility should connect to financial control. Ask each vendor to demonstrate the following using your own products and transactions.
- Inventory costing: when do receipts, production and shipments update cost and margin?
- Finance scope: are the general ledger, payables, receivables and required multi-entity workflows included?
- Traceability: can a balance be followed back to journal entries and source transactions?
- Close: what reconciliation remains between sales, inventory, production and finance?
- Permissions: who can view or change costs and margins?
- Delivery plan: how will implementation be phased, and what does each phase cost?
Axolt connects manufacturing activity with finance on Salesforce. See financial reporting on Salesforce for reporting and transaction traceability.
Five-Year Manufacturing ERP Cost: What to Include
Compare the full operating cost over five years, using the same user counts, business scope and implementation assumptions for every option.
- Software and platform licences: confirm what is included and which users need access.
- Integration: include middleware, initial development, monitoring and ongoing maintenance for any connected systems.
- Upgrades: budget for testing and any integration changes when either system releases updates.
- Reconciliation: account for recurring finance and operations time spent matching records.
- Implementation: include data preparation, configuration, training, rollout and support.
A Salesforce-native approach brings manufacturing and customer workflows onto one platform. A connected ERP may still suit businesses with an established global finance system or specialist industry requirements. Assess those needs before choosing the architecture.
A Phased Manufacturing ERP Implementation
- Foundation: prepare items, bills of materials, routings, locations and the chart of accounts.
- Order to cash: connect quotes, orders, inventory, shipping and invoicing.
- Plan and make: introduce MRP, purchasing, work orders and quality workflows.
- Finance close: validate postings, reconciliations and financial reporting.
- Extend: add field service, advanced scheduling and AI assistance where they fit your operation.
Use these phases as a discussion framework. Agree the sequence, responsibilities and acceptance criteria around your business processes.
What to Test in Your Manufacturing ERP Demo
- Configure and quote one of your real products, including current cost and expected margin.
- Test an order with a short component and show how the delivery date is determined.
- Accept the quote and follow the sales order, work order and purchase requirements.
- Record production using a lot-tracked component and a failed inspection.
- Complete, ship and invoice the order; inspect the journal entries and order margin.
- Check which users can see margin and which users cannot.
Record any exports, rekeying or additional development required. Bring this checklist to your Axolt manufacturing demo.
Manufacturing ERP on Salesforce: Frequently Asked Questions
Does Axolt support make-to-order manufacturing?
Axolt connects quoting, sales orders, BOMs, routing, MRP, production, shipping and finance on Salesforce. Use a real customer order in your demo to validate the configuration, delivery commitments and costing your business needs.
Do we need Salesforce already to use Axolt?
No. Axolt licences include the underlying Salesforce Platform licence, so manufacturers can adopt both together.
What should a mid-market manufacturer compare when choosing ERP?
Compare make-to-order support, MRP, purchasing, inventory, shop-floor workflows, quality, finance and five-year total cost. Ask vendors to demonstrate your own products and exception scenarios.
How should CFOs assess manufacturing ERP on Salesforce?
Check inventory costing, ledger and multi-entity requirements, source-transaction traceability, close and reconciliation effort, cost permissions and the phased implementation plan.
When might a separate ERP connected to Salesforce be a better fit?
Consider a connected ERP when operations will remain on another platform, global finance is already standardised on an established ERP, or specialist manufacturing requirements determine the system choice.
Want to see this inside Salesforce?
Axolt connects inventory, orders, purchasing, finance, shipping, and service on one Salesforce-native ERP platform.