Solutions / Light manufacturing
What it cost to make, known before you invoice it.
Bills of material, works orders and shop-floor output feeding the same stock and the same ledger — so a job has a cost rather than an estimate.
Who this is for: Makers, assemblers, food producers and job shops running batches or works orders.
What breaks today
The three you will recognise.
Written from what this kind of business actually reports, rather than from a list of features a competitor lacks.
Costing is a guess with a margin on top
Materials from one place, labour from another, overhead from a rule of thumb — and the answer arrives after the price was quoted.
Raw stock and finished stock are different systems
Consuming components and producing output are the same event, and two systems make it two events that have to be reconciled.
Nobody knows what is on the floor
Works in progress is a number somebody maintains, and it is wrong between the times they maintain it.
What changes
Not a promise about your results. A description of the mechanism.
These are things the software does. What they are worth in your business depends on your business, and we would rather say that than quote a percentage nobody can check.
The bill of material is the costing
Components, quantities and labour on the works order are what the cost is calculated from, as it is consumed rather than afterwards.
Production is one movement
Consuming components and receiving finished goods happen against the same stock records, so the two halves cannot drift apart.
Work in progress is a query
Open works orders and what has been booked against them are records, so the number is derived rather than maintained.
The chain, end to end
Each step writes to the same records the next step reads. There is no export between them, which is why there is nothing to reconcile afterwards.
What you would actually buy
The products behind Light manufacturing
In the order they matter here. Each is sold on its own, and the labels are the real ones.
Rutba Manufacturing
Available nowManufacturing & MRP software
Bills of materials, work orders, and material planning that consume raw stock and produce finished goods against the same inventory everything else reads.
- Multi-level bills of materials with versions
- Work orders that reserve and consume real stock
- Material requirements planning against live inventory
From $32 per user / month
Rutba Inventory
Available nowInventory management & warehouse (WMS) software
Stock levels, multi-location transfers, stocktakes, and valuation — the single source of truth every other part of the business reserves and deducts against.
- Live stock across unlimited locations and bins
- Transfers with in-transit visibility
- Scheduled and rolling stocktakes with variance reporting
Includes: Stock · Warehouse Control
From $22 per user / month
Rutba Books
Available nowAccounting & bookkeeping software
Invoicing, bills, banking and reconciliation on one side; the ledger, tax, budgets and the financial reports on the other — fed automatically by every sale, pay run and stock movement happening elsewhere in the business.
- Two apps on one ledger - the daily bookkeeping surface and the accountant’s workbench, neither hiding anything from the other
- Sales invoices, bills, receipts, supplier payments and credit notes, with per-line tax
- Bank statements read in whatever your bank emits - CAMT.053, MT940, OFX/QFX or CSV - and matched, with reconciliation that must reach zero
Includes: Books · Accounts
From $14 per user / month
Rutba Orders
Available nowOrder management (OMS) & delivery software
The order hub where web, counter, and phone orders all land — picked, packed, dispatched, delivered, and returned, with a rider app for the last mile.
- One queue for web, counter, and phone orders
- Pick and pack workflows with stock reserved automatically
- Delivery runs assigned to drivers, tracked live
Includes: Orders · Rider
From $19 per user / month
Rutba People
Available nowHR, payroll & employee management software
Employee records, the org structure, attendance and leave, a shared time clock, and payroll that runs on all of it — plus a self-service portal so staff answer their own questions instead of asking HR.
- Employee records, employment history, contracts, teams and matrix reporting lines
- Attendance and leave with approval chains
- A shared time clock that gives attendance an actual source
Includes: HR · Employee Self-Service · Payroll · Time Clock · Workforce · Recruit · Talent
From $8 per employee / month
Does this describe your week?
Tell us what you run today. We will show you what moving across looks like, what it would cost, and where we are the wrong answer.