Your ERP runs production. LineNow runs buying.
Keep your ERP as the system of record for items, inventory, BOMs, work orders, receiving, and cost. LineNow turns that reality into purchasing decisions, executes the supplier PO, tracks what changes, and returns the commitment.
Customer-loved Manufacturing Buying beside Your ERP
White-glove onboarding, answers in under an hour
A LineNow team member sets up your suppliers, items, and first POs with you - and sticks around after.
Talk through your supplier workflow with a LineNow team member before you start.
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Where manufacturing buying breaks
The gap is not production control. It is the work between an ERP signal and a supplier commitment.
The ERP Shows Need, Not Buyer Action
Item balances and production consumption live in the ERP, but deciding the next raw-material or component buy still requires separate buyer work.Supplier Changes Live Outside the ERP
Confirmations, price changes, ETAs, shortages, and partials arrive after send, while production planners keep looking at the committed PO.Receiving Should Not Happen Twice
A separate receipt or inventory ledger creates competing truth. The warehouse should keep receiving, QC, lots, and cost in the ERP it already runs.The Committed PO State Drifts
The ERP holds the original commitment while the buyer sees the latest supplier reality in email. Production gets surprised when those states diverge.See LineNow beside your ERP in 10 minutes
Trace ERP item and inventory inputs through buyer decision, supplier execution, PO write-back, and receipt reconciliation.From ERP signal to supplier execution
The same procurement workflow LineNow already gives buyers, fitted around the system your production team already trusts.
Decide what to buy from ERP reality
Use ERP on-hand inventory and movement history alongside open supplier orders, lead times, stocking targets, and pack sizes to review the next raw-material buy.
- Import the ERP item master, vendors, and replenishment settings
- Treat work-order consumption and shipments as real demand
- Keep the buyer in control of every recommended quantity
Version the buy before it becomes the ERP commitment
Save the buyer cart as reviewable revisions while quantities, packs, suppliers, and prices are still being decided. Only the approved commitment becomes the ERP purchase order.
- Compare raw-material and component changes side by side
- Keep who changed what, when, and why in the buyer history
- Restore an earlier plan without touching ERP inventory records
Run the supplier purchase order
Turn the recommendation into a supplier-ready PO, review every component and quantity, then send the commitment to the supplier and back to the ERP.
- Group raw materials and components by supplier
- Review quantities, packs, prices, and delivery location
- Create the matching purchase order in the buyer ERP
Keep supplier email threads on the living PO
Bring supplier replies into the order context the whole buying team can use. LineNow extracts confirmations, price changes, shortages, and ETAs as reviewable updates instead of leaving them in one inbox.
- Keep the PO-linked supplier thread visible to the buying team
- Turn supplier statements into structured changes for review
- Preserve the source message beside every accepted update
Track the supplier reality after send
Keep confirmations, price changes, ETAs, partials, documents, and notes on the living PO while receiving remains in the ERP where the plant already records it.
- Absorb supplier replies into structured PO changes
- Keep buyers ahead of shortages, price changes, and delays
- Observe ERP receipts and close the tracked order exactly
A buying layer, not another ERP
The ERP remains authoritative after the PO. LineNow owns the decision and supplier execution that lead up to it, then listens for the receipt your warehouse already records.
| ERP / MRPProduction system of record | LineNow | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary role | Run production, warehouse, inventory, finance, and control | Turn material needs into supplier purchasing action |
| Items and BOMs | Own the item master, BOMs, work orders, and approved records | Read the purchasing inputs without creating a shadow master |
| Demand signal | Record consumption, shipments, balances, and movements | Use those movements to recommend what and when to buy |
| Supplier work | Store the vendor and committed purchase document | Keep the supplier email thread, replies, ETAs, and exceptions on the living PO |
| Purchase order | Carry the PO into planning, receiving, AP, and payment | Version the buyer cart, originate the reviewed PO, and write the commitment back |
| Receiving | Own receipt, QC, lots, cost, bills, and inventory impact | Observe the ERP receipt and close the tracked order |
| Implementation | Keeps every existing post-PO workflow in place | Adds the buyer layer around it instead of replacing it |
Keep production, receiving, and finance where they are. Add the buyer workflow around them.
Procurement without replacement
Why ask an ERP to manage every supplier conversation?
Let the ERP keep the production and inventory record. Give buyers one place to understand material need, execute the PO, track supplier changes, and keep the commitment visible to the plant.
