From customer schedule to shipped part, without the Excel in between
Planning, shop-floor, quality and compliance modules for component makers, fabricators and engineering MSMEs. Run any module on its own beside your current ERP or accounting software, or combine them into one integrated plant.
Customer schedules change every week and the plan is rebuilt in Excel every morning
Material shortages are discovered at the machine, not at planning
Material lying with job workers is tracked in notebooks, turning GST job-work returns into audit risk
Machines stop and nobody records why, so real capacity is a guess
Quotations are priced on old material rates and margin leaks stay hidden
Large-customer payments slip past the 45-day MSME limit and lock up working capital
None of it is anybody's fault. Every workaround was added because it solved a real problem that day. The cost only shows up later — as "I thought someone else had done it."
Order to dispatch on one data model: forecast, plan, buy, make, inspect, cost and ship, with SmartAI-Pulse watching the plant. Delivered in phases, starting with your most expensive problem.
Works with the software you already run *
Keep your ERP. Add the module that fixes the gap.
Every module runs standalone beside your current ERP, accounting or industry software, or together as Enterprise One. Each module card shows exactly what it exchanges with your current system.
Plan, Buy and Make
The core planning chain: know what the customer will take, what you need to buy and what each machine should run.
Vortex ForecastPulseDemand Forecast Module
Customer schedules change every week, so the plan built on last month's numbers is wrong before it is printed.
What it does
•Forecast by item and customer from order history and schedules
•Tracks every schedule revision from each customer
•Forecast accuracy by customer and item
•Feeds material and capacity planning directly
Works with your existing systems *
Reads sales orders and customer schedules from your ERP, portal downloads or EDI files. The forecast returns to the ERP as a planning input.
Vortex ProductionPulseOrders Module
Order status is a phone call to the plant, promises are made without checking material or capacity, and big-customer payments slide past 45 days.
What it does
•Order book with promise dates checked against capacity
•On-time-in-full tracking per customer
•Delivery schedule vs actual dispatch
•Receivables ageing with a 45-day MSME payment flag
Works with your existing systems *
Sales orders and invoices sync with your existing ERP or accounting software, so nothing is entered twice.
Vortex ProductionPulseMaterial Planning Module
Shortages surface at the machine, and purchase buys in a hurry at premium prices.
What it does
•Multi-level bill of materials explosion
•Net requirement after stock, open orders and job-work stock
•Shortage list days ahead of need
•Planned purchase and job-work orders
Works with your existing systems *
Uses bills of materials and stock from your ERP. Planned orders are raised back into it after approval.
Vortex ProductionPulseProcurement Module
Supplier quotes arrive on WhatsApp, prices move every week, and nobody can say which supplier is actually reliable.
What it does
•RFQ to comparison to purchase order
•Price history with change alerts
•Supplier rating on delivery, quality and price
•Pending-order follow-up
Works with your existing systems *
Purchase orders and goods receipts post to your ERP. The supplier master stays in one place.
Find hidden capacity before buying another machine.
Standard across every Vortex industry
Vortex SmartAI-Pulse core layer
Predictive analytics
Forecasts and early-warning signals from your own operating history.
Executive & KPI dashboards
Interactive views from company level down to a single order, truck or machine.
Workflow automation
Routine reports, alerts and hand-offs run on their own, on WhatsApp, email or screen.
Human-in-the-loop approvals
Anything that changes money, stock or a customer promise waits for a person to approve.
Disruption & exception handling
Rules watch every transaction and escalate by severity to the right owner.
Decision audit trail
Every recommendation, approval and override is recorded with who, when and why.
Where rules or optimisation give a reliable answer, we use them. AI is applied where it genuinely improves a decision, and never without a person accountable for the outcome.
Go deeper with SmartAI-Pulse
Decision Automation Service
Not sure which decisions are safe to automate, and which should always wait for a person.
We map every recurring decision in your operation, configure which ones your systems can make on their own, and which stay with a person — before a single automation goes live.
Stock piles up in one location while another runs short, and nobody can say why.
We work out where stock should actually sit, how many locations you need, and which routes are worth running — using your own sales and movement data, not assumptions.
We study the real workflows, the manual hand-offs and the priority risks before recommending any technology.
02 · Phase one
The first release solves your single most expensive problem and goes live in weeks, so you see value before committing further.
03 · Honest answer
If a process fix would serve you better than software, we will say so. We have said it before and walked away from the work.
Founder-led. Magesh Raman spent 22+ years in enterprise supply chain and operations at Ford, Timken and St John Freight before founding Vortex. We have run the operations we now digitise.
Questions we get asked
Start with a free Vortex Pulse Check
No charge, no obligation. We map one operating priority into a practical roadmap — and if the honest answer is that you are not ready for software yet, we will tell you.
