ERP development · Manufacturing ERP
Manufacturing ERP in the UAE has to serve two very different shops. One is the assembler or light manufacturer whose process is a bill of materials and a stock room; the other is the factory whose advantage is a production process no trading package models. Next Orbit offers, implements and supports e-tijariX for the first, with kits, bills of materials, costed multi-warehouse stock, purchasing and finance. For the second it builds production planning and shop floor capture as custom modules.
Quick answer
Manufacturing ERP in the UAE should hold the bill of materials, value raw material and finished goods at true cost, and plan what to make and buy. It should capture what the shop floor actually produced and post all of it to a ledger that produces the VAT return. e-tijariX, which Next Orbit implements and supports, covers kits and bundles with bills of materials, assembly and disassembly, and FIFO costed multi-warehouse stock with lots and serials. Purchasing with three-way match, finance, UAE VAT, Corporate Tax, e-invoicing and payroll with WPS are in the same system. For production planning, work orders, routing and shop floor data capture, Next Orbit builds custom modules. Machine data arrives through OPC UA or MQTT, and everything connects to e-tijariX through its REST API.
What we deliver
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Deliverable 01
Kits and bundles in e-tijariX carry a bill of materials with components and quantities. Assembly consumes the components at FIFO cost and books the finished kit at the resulting cost; disassembly reverses it. Variants by size, colour or specification, units of measure and a specification library keep the catalogue consistent.
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Deliverable 02
Raw materials, work in progress held as kits, and finished goods are stocked per warehouse and bin at FIFO cost, with FEFO for materials that expire. Lots carry a recall trace, finished units carry serial numbers, barcode counting works offline, and minimum and maximum rules raise purchase requests before a line stops.
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Deliverable 03
Purchase request, RFQ, purchase order, goods receipt, supplier invoice and payment, with approvals by amount or category. AI capture of supplier invoices runs a three-way match against the order and receipt, vendor scorecards track delivery, fill rate and quality returns, and supplier agreements are signed electronically.
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Deliverable 04
Where planning drives the business, Next Orbit builds a custom module: work orders from sales orders or forecasts, routing and work centres, capacity by shift, material availability checks, scheduling and rescheduling, and release to the floor. It reads the bill of materials and stock from e-tijariX and books output back at actual cost.
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Deliverable 05
Operators record starts, stops, quantities, scrap and downtime reasons on a tablet at the work centre. Machine counters, sensors and PLCs feed the same screen through OPC UA, MQTT or LoRaWAN gateways built by our IoT team. Output and consumption post to work orders and stock in near real time.
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Deliverable 06
General ledger with cost centres by department, branch and project, cost of goods sold from actual consumption, and fixed assets with depreciation for plant and machinery. VAT 201 from live data including imports via customs declarations, a Corporate Tax pack, PINT AE e-invoicing and payroll with WPS, shift rotas and overtime for factory staff.
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Part of our ERP development service. The same architecture-first process, quality control and support apply; tell us the problem and one of our expert engineers will map it to a plan.
Discovery CallWe deliver the work from one office in Dubai and serve manufacturers across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, the whole UAE and the GCC.
That includes the industrial areas of Sharjah, Ajman, Jebel Ali and Abu Dhabi. Our ERP, custom software and IoT teams work as one group. The ledger, the stock room and the machine data end up in the same system, in Arabic and English, with one support contact.
A bill of materials in Excel, raw material counted by hand, finished goods valued by guess and production reported on paper a day late, so cost per unit is never known.
One bill of materials that drives purchasing, a work order that consumes materials and books finished goods at actual cost, and live production counts from the shop floor.
e-tijariX for stock, purchasing, finance, tax and payroll; custom production planning and shop floor modules where needed; IoT sensors and machine connectivity; migration, training and support.
Architecture-first
Before a line of production code is written we draw the system: the people who use it, the services behind it and the systems it must talk to. This reference architecture from our ERP development practice is the starting point we adapt to your operation.
Flow 01 Inventory Finance & accounting Reports & Power BI
Flow 02 Sales Finance & accounting Reports & Power BI
Flow 03 Procurement Finance & accounting Reports & Power BI
Flow 04 Projects & assets Finance & accounting Reports & Power BI
Flow 05 HR & payroll Finance & accounting Reports & Power BI
Technology stack
Chosen per project from tools we run in production. Pick a category to see the part of the stack behind it.
How it runs
5 stages, each with a deliverable you can review and sign off before the next begins.
A site visit maps products, bills of materials, work centres, stock locations and what the shop floor records today.
A demo of e-tijariX stock, kits, purchasing and finance on Next Orbit sample data, then the custom scope is agreed.
Catalogue, bills of materials, stock with costs, suppliers and accounts migrated and configured; the trading core goes live first.
Planning, work orders and shop floor capture built and connected; sensors and machine gateways installed where needed.
Ongoing support from Dubai, routing and bill of materials changes, new lines, and reporting on cost per unit and line performance.
Who it is for
Products assembled from components with a bill of materials and costed stock.
Lots with expiry, FEFO picking, recall trace and production by batch.
Job-based production, raw material in weight units and project cost centres.
High-volume lines, bulk units, site deliveries and replenishment of raw inputs.
Serial numbers per finished unit, warranty tracking and spare parts service.
Project-driven work orders, vendor documents and controlled infrastructure where required.
Platforms we offer
e-trainia is our own platform; e-tijariX, MeezanX and AuthentiQ we implement and support. Each can be customised for your operation.
B2B + B2C commerce, inventory & ERP
Dealer and consumer sales, multi-warehouse stock, procurement and VAT accounting on one product master.
B2B + B2C one store, one stock figure
Explore e-tijariXQuestions, answered
For assemblers and light manufacturers, yes: kits with bills of materials, assembly and disassembly at FIFO cost, multi-warehouse stock, purchasing, finance, VAT, e-invoicing and payroll are in e-tijariX. It does not include production scheduling or shop floor terminals. Next Orbit builds those as custom modules connected through the REST API when a factory needs them.
When planning, routing, capacity, quality or machine integration decide your margin and no trading package models them. Also when the factory already runs a legacy system that must be replaced piece by piece. Next Orbit keeps the trading core of a manufacturing ERP in the UAE on e-tijariX and builds the production modules as custom software. That fits better than bending a package to a process it was not designed for.
Yes. The custom planning module takes demand from confirmed sales orders, the online store and the AI demand forecast in e-tijariX. It nets demand against finished goods and work in progress, explodes the bill of materials to raw material requirements and raises purchase requests through the standard purchasing approvals.
Operators use a tablet at each work centre to record quantities, scrap and downtime. Machine counters, sensors and PLCs feed the same work order through OPC UA, MQTT or LoRaWAN gateways. Output posts finished goods to stock, consumption relieves raw materials, and dashboards show cost per unit and line performance.
Yes. e-tijariX works in Arabic and English, with bilingual product and component names and right-to-left screens. Documents such as stock transfers and goods received notes print in either language. Custom production modules built by Next Orbit are bilingual by default, so operators and planners can each use their own language.
Components are consumed at FIFO cost when a kit is assembled or a work order is completed. The finished unit therefore carries the actual material cost. In the custom production module, labour and overhead rates per work centre are added from recorded time. Variances against the standard are reported per order and per line.
Yes. Next Orbit works from one office in Dubai. It serves factories in Sharjah Industrial Area and Al Sajaa, the Abu Dhabi industrial zones, Jebel Ali, Ajman and Ras Al Khaimah. Site visits, installation of shop floor devices and training are done at your plant. See ERP for trading companies for the trading core.
Further reading
How an IoT development company in Dubai plans industrial IoT: sensors, connectivity, edge, security, UAE site conditions and a checklist for picking a partner.
Odoo vs custom ERP in the UAE: where packaged ERPs fit and strain, what a custom build involves, a configured platform route, and a decision framework.
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