Are we quoting below cost?
See material rates, work-step rates, overhead, rejection buffers, margin, and customer discounts before a quotation leaves the factory.
Manufacturing software for factory owners
Control costing, production, and stock without another spreadsheet.
Ichios gives small and mid-size factory owners one operating workspace for manufacturing job costing, quotations, raw material stock, finished goods, customer orders, and production queues.
ichios
Factory command
Pipe Frame line - Today
Stock checks active
Customer order
Acme Pipe Frames
Needs material decision
Quoted total
Rs 42,800
locked
Gross margin
18.6%
rule set
Due in
6 days
planned
Cutting
Queued
Welding
Ready
Powder coat
Blocked
Cost rollup
MS pipe62%
Welding18%
Packaging7%
Margin13%
Alex recommendation
Powder coat is blocked because red primer is below release stock. Receive 12 kg or shift the order to blue primer before confirming.
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Open demand
18
customer orders awaiting release
Blocked jobs
3
stock or route decisions needed
Quote drift
2.4%
variance from locked rule sets
Factory owner questions
Answer the questions owners ask before they open a spreadsheet.
Ichios is positioned around the daily searches that matter to a factory owner: manufacturing job costing, order status, stock availability, production delays, and pricing control.
Which orders are blocked by stock?
Check raw material, intermediate, and finished stock before releasing customer orders to production.
Where is each job on the floor?
Turn product routes into live production queues so owners can see waiting, active, blocked, and completed work.
What changed, and who approved it?
Keep pricing rules, stock movement, order status, and access changes tied to permissions and activity history.
Setup sequence
Built around the way a factory owner actually starts using software.
Ichios does not ask a team to jump straight into dashboards. It walks through the operational data that every quote, stock movement, and production card depends on.
Raw materials
Capture bought inputs, trusted units, supplier rates, and latest costs.
Stations and steps
Define reusable factory work steps, route timing, and rate sources.
Products
Model final and intermediate items with BOMs, routes, and sale units.
Rule sets
Apply overhead, rejection, margin, packaging, freight, and discounts once.
Stock
Track raw, in-progress, and finished inventory by location and batch.
Orders
Turn priced commitments into work orders and production queues.
Operations layer
Factory management software for quote to order to work order to stock.
Each surface answers a concrete operating question instead of becoming another spreadsheet with prettier borders.
Costing
Quote from the same data production uses
Material rates, work-step rates, BOMs, routes, and pricing rules stay in one controlled path. Sales does not rebuild factory math in spreadsheets.
Inventory
Know what can actually be made
Ichios separates raw, intermediate, and finished stock, then checks availability before work is released to the floor.
Production
Move orders through real shop-floor steps
Reusable station definitions become product routes, route steps become live queues, and queues show where customer work is waiting.
Control
Keep every commercial change auditable
Role checks, approval paths, and activity history make price, stock, and production changes visible without slowing daily work.
Customisation
Shape Ichios around the way your factory works
Fields, workflows, reports, roles, and onboarding can be customised to your factory's specific requirements at no extra cost during setup.
Agent-assisted onboarding
Bring the messy factory setup sheet. Ichios turns it into reviewed records.
Alex helps parse materials, customer lists, station rates, products, BOMs, routes, pricing rules, and opening stock. The user sees the draft, edits the rows, and approves what gets written. We also customise the workspace to the specific requirements of the factory at no extra cost.
Input
We buy 6mm pipe by foot and weld Pipe Frame 3ft.
Draft
Material, work steps, product, BOM, route, and sale unit.
Review
Missing supplier and primer stock are flagged before apply.
Apply
Approved rows become usable records for quotes, stock, and production.
For the people running the factory
Readable for owners. Precise enough for production.
The product vocabulary stays close to the shop floor: customers, orders, materials, stock, jobs, steps, queues, prices, approvals, and activity.
Owners
See which orders are blocked, where margin moved, and which customers are waiting.
Planners
Release work with the right BOM, route, due date, location, and stock state.
Supervisors
Run production queues by step instead of chasing status updates across messages.
Factory systems by problem
Explore the operating problems factory owners search for first.
Ichios is built around the practical decisions that usually start in spreadsheets: cost a job, send a quote, check stock, release work, and track the customer order.
manufacturing job costing software
Job costing
Ichios helps factory owners quote custom jobs from controlled material rates, station rates, BOMs, routes, overhead, rejection buffers, margins, and customer discounts.
manufacturing quotation software
Quotations
Create manufacturing quotations from controlled factory data: materials, route steps, stock checks, customer pricing rules, margins, and order-ready approvals.
factory inventory software
Inventory
Track raw material stock, intermediate stock, finished goods, locations, batches, and production availability in one manufacturing operations workspace.
production queue software
Production queues
Turn manufacturing routes into live production queues so factory owners can see waiting, active, blocked, and completed work by station or step.
factory management software
Factory management
Ichios gives factory owners one operating layer for customers, quotations, job costing, raw materials, finished goods, production queues, and order status.
manufacturing CRM
Manufacturing CRM
Manage manufacturing customers, quotations, order status, pricing rules, and production context without forcing factory work into a generic sales CRM.
Excel alternative for manufacturers
Excel alternative
Move costing, quotations, raw material stock, finished goods, customer orders, and production queues out of fragile spreadsheets and into Ichios.
small manufacturing business software
Small manufacturers
Ichios helps small and mid-size manufacturers manage costing, quotations, raw materials, finished goods, production queues, and customer orders without enterprise ERP weight.
Operational guardrails
Modern enough for AI workflows. Conservative where money and stock are involved.
Ichios keeps price changes, stock decisions, and order updates reviewable. Alex can help with setup and checks, while owners stay in control.
Clear owner, planner, and supervisor permissions for sensitive changes.
Central costing rules so quotes do not drift across spreadsheet versions.
Consistent units, rates, quantities, and margins across quotes and orders.
Review-before-apply onboarding for messy sheets and plain-language setup.
Factory owner FAQ
Questions factory owners ask when choosing manufacturing software.
Short answers for owners comparing spreadsheets, generic CRMs, inventory tools, and manufacturing operations systems.
What is the best manufacturing software for a factory owner moving away from spreadsheets?
A factory owner usually needs costing, quotations, production status, stock, and customer orders in the same system. Ichios is built for that operating loop, so pricing decisions and shop-floor decisions use the same data.
Can Ichios help with job costing for custom manufacturing?
Yes. Ichios connects material rates, station rates, BOMs, product routes, overhead, margin, discounts, and customer-specific pricing rules so custom jobs can be quoted from controlled cost inputs.
Does Ichios track raw materials and finished goods stock?
Yes. Ichios is designed to track raw material, in-progress, intermediate, and finished goods stock by location and batch, then use that stock state before work orders are released.
Who is Ichios for?
Ichios is for small and mid-size factory owners, production planners, and supervisors who need a practical system for quoting, order tracking, production queues, and inventory control.
Can Ichios be customised for our factory?
Yes. During setup, we customise Ichios around your products, workflows, fields, reports, roles, and approval needs at no extra cost, so the system matches how your factory actually runs.
Get started
Start with one factory line and one real customer order flow.
The right first setup is narrow: import setup data, lock a rule set, customise the workflow to your requirements, quote an order, release a work order, and verify stock impact.