PlantProduction & Procurement · Digital twin
The planning workbook your plant already trusts — rebuilt as one live system. Firm orders become a capacity-checked plan, the plan becomes a raw-material and packaging buy, and a digital twin of your own site shows bins, trucks and lines today, last month and seven days ahead. An AI layer answers in plain language, from your records only.
WhySound familiar?
From plant heads and production planners. Composite quotes from discovery calls — the problems are real; the names are left out.
“The plan lives in one person’s workbook.”
Thirty-one sheets of formulas only the planner understands. When they’re on leave, the plant guesses.
Plant headThe plant depends on one laptop
“We buy wheat when the bin is already low.”
Procurement learns what the plan needs after it is published — so every buy is a rush order.
Procurement managerRush buys at the worst price
“We find the bottleneck after the order is late.”
Nobody can see that the packing line runs out of hours on Thursday until Thursday.
Production plannerLate orders, overtime, idle mills
HowWhat changes with the planner
Product screens with illustrative data. In your walkthrough we load your own lanes, plants, outlets or SKUs.
01The one-person workbook
Anyone in the plant can read the plan
02Rush buys
Orders raised days before the bin runs low
03Late bottlenecks
Thursday’s problem fixed on Tuesday
FieldProduction & Procurement in the field
The workplace it runs in, the person who uses it on a phone, the team at the desk and the detail it reads.
Photographs are illustrative — real customer sites are not shown.
01Open the planner
Click through it. The suggested plan fills each line by priority, procurement turns it into what to order and by when, the twin scrubs from now to next week, and the forecast shows which line runs out of hours first.
Illustrative mill figures — not customer data. In your walkthrough, these are your SKUs, lines and site.
02The planning chain
Change an order and everything after it moves: the plan, the actual it will be judged against, the projection, the wheat, the bags, the buy list and the load on every machine.
Firm demand
Open orders and bulk deals read live from the plant portal; stages and channels that count as firm are switches you set.
Capacity allocator
Each working day, due SKUs take capacity in priority order, then pull-ahead fills what is left — line by line, against the calendar.
Overrides · frozen days
Planners override any cell and freeze days already committed. Targets sit beside the plan.
Production lots
Gross lot quantity by manufacturing date, from the plant’s own records — no retyping.
Daily variance
Every SKU, every day: what was planned, what was made, and the gap that needs a reason.
Rolling forecast
Workbook-parity growth, or the run-rate method that no longer under-states an incomplete month.
Wheat & inputs
Projected production becomes raw-material need, net of stock and in-transit.
Bill of materials
Bags, pouches and cartons per SKU, from the packaging BOM.
Buy plan
What to order, how much, and by when — from need, stock, in-transit and lead time.
Machines · manpower · bottlenecks
Machine load and manpower against the plan; red above 100 %, amber above 85 %.
03A digital twin of your own site
Drawn from your own site plan, with every bin, warehouse, line and gate the plant records. It never invents a number: where nothing is recorded, it says not recorded.
Bins, stacks, lines and trucks as the plant records them, refreshed every minute.
Scrub back through the month to see when a bin filled or a truck waited.
Open orders, the plan and benchmark rates run forward — with a “do first” list.
Shift hours, rates and start values as levers; every forecast prints its assumptions.
Buildings, roads, names and thresholds edited in the app, saved as versions.
Everything on the twin, downloadable as tables.
18 alert rules, grouped as now · next 7 days · data
04The hyper-customised AI layer
The AI layer is not a chatbot bolted on. It speaks your plant’s words, reads only the sources you approve, and every answer carries its unit, basis and period.
30 screens, by area
05Where it fits
The engine is lines, SKUs, a calendar, materials and benchmarks. We map your process onto it in discovery — then rebuild your planning sheets as live screens.
Where it was built: mill, chakki, besan, packing and bulk, on one plan.
Melt, pour, fettling and machining as lines; furnace hours and alloy as materials.
SKU × line plans, packaging BOMs and channel-wise demand.
Batches, tanks and campaigns on a calendar with changeovers.
06Control
It can run on a computer in your office network, with no cloud deployment at all.
Orders, lots, stock and workforce are read on demand; the plant’s database is never written.
Viewer, planner, admin. Planners override and freeze; admins own masters and users.
Sign-ins, overrides, master edits and every user change, with who and when.
Unmapped plant products surface with a one-click “map to SKU”.
FAQQuestions we get about Production & Procurement
Production & Procurement is an Autowhat AI product for plant heads, production planners and procurement. Short, factual answers for buyers, procurement and the assistants people ask first.
In short. Production & Procurement is an Autowhat AI product for plant heads, production planners and procurement. It is built for plant heads, production planners and procurement. It exists to remove the problems those teams describe in almost every first conversation: a plant that depends on one planner's workbook; rush buys at the worst price; and late orders, overtime and idle mills in the same week. With Production & Procurement, teams get each line filled by priority, with pull-ahead using the hours left, cover on hand vs planned use and real lead time, per material, and a seven-day forecast of every line, bin and gate. It connects to ERP orders & BOM, Capacity model, PO generation and Scenario planning, is used by Planning · procurement · plant head, and runs on web. Like every Autowhat AI product, Production & Procurement goes live on one site, lane or process first, usually within weeks, on managed cloud, in your own VPC or on-premises, and shares one operational record with the other products, so the second deployment reuses the data and integrations of the first.
Plant heads, production planners and procurement. Forecasts, capacity plans and purchase orders from one digital twin of the plant.
a plant that depends on one planner's workbook; rush buys at the worst price; late orders, overtime and idle mills in the same week.
each line filled by priority, with pull-ahead using the hours left; cover on hand vs planned use and real lead time, per material; a seven-day forecast of every line, bin and gate.
It connects to ERP orders & BOM, Capacity model, PO generation, Scenario planning. Users: Planning · procurement · plant head. Channel: Web.
With a 30-minute working session on your own data — an engineer from the relevant sector, not a sales queue. The first wave is scoped in that call; most products go live on one site, lane or process within weeks and then scale.
On managed cloud, in your own VPC (AWS, Azure or GCP) or on-premises, with your keys. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 controls, India data residency when required, and local or open-weight models when policy demands it. The data stays yours.
07Bring your workbook
A working session with an engineer: your SKUs, lines and site plan on the planner and the twin.
