A print-production ERP built around how the team actually works

Project Context

Wellen Print runs a detailed print-production flow: quotation requests, costing, order approvals, production scheduling, material planning, and invoicing. With all of that spread across separate spreadsheets, chats, and handwritten notes, the team keeps running into the same problems: order status is hard to see, changes fall out of sync, and operational decisions are slow.

The Problem Being Solved

This project isn't about moving an old process onto a new screen. We're building an ERP foundation that cleans up the core workflow first: how quotations are prepared, how production is scheduled, how materials are tracked, and how every order can be followed without jumping between files. An ERP for print manufacturing has to follow the way operations actually run, instead of forcing the team to bend around rigid software.

What We Are Building Now

We're building this iteratively with the Wellen Print team. We started with the modules closest to the operational bottlenecks: quotation and costing, order tracking, production scheduling, material stock, and invoicing. That way the system grows from the areas that bring clarity fastest, rather than from features that look impressive but may not get used every day.

The Outcome Being Targeted

The goal: replace dozens of scattered files and channels with a single source of truth, so every order can be tracked from start to finish and production decisions run on real-time data instead of manual recaps that always lag behind. So this case study isn't a finished story. It shows how a manufacturing ERP that people actually use gets built, one realistic step at a time.