Forensic Diagnostic · v1
The Pre-Factory Pipeline Audit.
Five forensic questions. One number that your ERP will never show you: the working capital trapped between deposit collection and shop-floor execution.
How many active projects are currently signed (contract executed or deposit taken) but NOT yet officially released to the factory floor?
What is your average Total Contract Value (TCV) per individual build-to-order project?
On average, how many weeks does a single order spend navigating human workflows (CAD revisions, engineering design loops, and multi-department approvals) before drawing shop-floor resources?
Where do signed orders historically experience the most volatile delays or administrative chasing before shop-floor execution?
What is your standard upfront customer deposit percentage, and what is your operational cash burn profile?
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Critical Finding — This liquidity is actively trapped in non-linear human workflows between your upfront deposit collection and shop-floor execution. It is currently completely hidden from your standard production ERP metrics.
Across 10 active contracts.
42 days of process float per contract.
Stalled inside THE ENGINEERING GATE.
Your selected primary bottleneck (THE ENGINEERING GATE) highlights why standard shop-floor management tools are failing your finance team. Traditional ERP networks are built to log rigid physical inventory—they cannot natively govern fluid human approval states. Because your 30% upfront deposit cushion is actively being eroded by front-end engineering design cycles before your just-in-time material orders execute, every day of delay inside this gate directly accelerates your operational cash burn profile.