PRODICA: Production Software for Factories That Still Run on Whiteboards

Walk any small factory floor in the UK and you'll find the same control system: a whiteboard of jobs, a spreadsheet of materials, and a supervisor who holds the real schedule in their head. It works — until it doesn't. A material shortage discovered mid-job, an order lost between departments, a promise made against stock that isn't there. PRODICA was built for exactly this messy middle of manufacturing: production job tracking from order to dispatch, bill-of-materials and material control, and live stock management, designed around how operations teams actually work. In this post we follow a job through the system — order becomes job card, materials allocate against the BOM and deduct from stock, the job moves through cutting, assembly and QC with status visible to everyone, and dispatch closes the loop. We also explain the positioning: real production software without enterprise ERP cost, offered as a SaaS subscription with onboarding measured in days. Manufacturers don't need more admin — they need to see every job, trust their stock numbers, and stop firefighting. That's the whole product. Here's how it works.