Your ERP plans resin, color and inserts, and it plans them well. Nothing plans the purge compound, desiccant, heater bands and gaylords sitting on the shelf beside the press, and any one of them costs you the same press time as a resin shortage. Arda puts a scannable card on those items, so a scan fires the reorder and the press keeps running.
Your first 10 cards are free. Runs alongside the plastics ERP you already chose, no rip and replace.
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A stockout is a reorder that fired too late, or never fired at all. Count-based systems leave that trigger to a person, and people are busy. Arda makes the trigger physical: the card on the bin is the reorder, sized to your supplier's lead time, so replenishment starts the moment stock runs low and the shelf refills before the second bin runs dry. That works the same on a pail of purge compound, a box of desiccant, or a pallet of gaylords.
Scanning the empty bin is the fastest way to get more, so the reorder fires on its own, every time.
Reorder point and safety stock are set to your real burn rate and lead time, so the second bin always covers the wait.
When a job changes what you burn, you resize the card once. Nobody recalculates a min/max by hand.
The shelf did not fail. The signal did.
Molding is more BOM-driven than most shops. Resin, color and inserts are all part numbers, and your ERP plans them properly against your release schedule. But the shelf next to the press holds purge compound, desiccant, heater bands and gaylords, and none of those belong to a part number, so nothing is planning them at all. When one runs out, the press sits exactly as long as it would for a resin shortage.
The tool is hung, the next color is dosed, and the tech reaches for purge compound that is not there. Now it is either a wait or a long push of virgin resin through the barrel, which burns expensive material and drives scrap up while the press makes nothing anyone can sell.
Desiccant beds and dryer filters degrade quietly, so dew point creeps and the resin runs wetter than the sheet says. The first sign is splay two hours into a run, and by then the lot is scrap. No planning run ever asked whether the desiccant had been changed.
The run is perfect and the gaylords are gone. Finished parts stack up beside the press because there is nothing to put them in, the truck leaves light, and a molder does not get paid until the parts ship.
Arda's inventory replenishment software puts a scannable card on every item a molding plant stocks, starting with the shelf your planning run was never pointed at, so the scan fires the reorder on its own. No stock check, no purchase order to type, no ERP rollout. Scan a card, the material shows up.
A bill of materials describes a part, so it can only cover what goes into the part. Purge compound belongs to a changeover. Desiccant belongs to a dryer. Gaylords belong to a shipment. None of them belong to a part number, so none of them get planned, and any one of them stops the press. The same card works on both rows, which means you can start on the second one and extend to the first whenever you want.
Every stocked item gets a durable card with a QR code, from a pail of purge compound to a box of desiccant to a pallet of gaylords. A process technician scans it with any phone, no extra hardware, no login friction.
The scan hits Arda's backend, which places the reorder at the right quantity from the right supplier. No purchase order to type.
Purchasing and the owner watch which cards are pulled, on order, or restocked across parts and locations, without walking the floor.
Each card encodes a proven loop sized to your real consumption: reorder point, the two-bin system, min/max levels, and safety stock. The math lives on the card, not in someone's head.
Card it today, scan it tomorrow, and see the reorder fire without anyone chasing it. Expand across the presses when it has proven itself.
Count-everything tools fail because they add a task. Arda removes one. That is what holds compliance past week one.
The card is the replenishment signal, on every item you stock. Nobody tallies stock or runs a cycle count to make the numbers real.
The simplest way to do the job is to scan the card, so compliance sticks in the middle of a changeover, where a data-entry screen never wins against press time.
No scanner gun, no new login, no training day. A process technician scans with the phone already in their pocket, so nothing new stands between them and the reorder.
Reorder point, min/max, and safety stock are baked into the card at the point of use, not buried in a back-office sheet that drifts the moment demand shifts.
One scan when a pail or bin runs low, and the refill is already moving. Same motion at every press. Nothing new to learn.
Your MRP run keeps doing resin, color and inserts. The shelf it never covered reorders itself at the right quantity, with no stack of manual POs behind it.
Press time stops leaking into shortages nobody planned for, and the second shelf finally produces real consumption data instead of guesses.
Plants that put a card on what they stock, on-BOM and off, and got their throughput and their hours back without changing the system they already run.
Precision machine shop. Throughput tripled and revenue doubled once the shelf stopped being a memory exercise and started firing its own orders.
Read the Austere case study →Heavy-industry fabricator running repeat production against a schedule. Weekly stockouts gone, and the floor went from four builds at a time to eight in six months, without a bigger building or a bigger team.
Read the Assembly Industrial case study →Cards went on 100% of supplies inside a year, and holdings on critical components fell from 25+ to 5 while output went up 6×. Less sitting on the shelf, more leaving the building.
Read the Rossmonster case study →For the items that actually stop a press, here is how the three common approaches stack up on the floor.
| Arda | ERP / MRP | Spreadsheet / memory | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal to reorder | Scan a card, order fires automatically | Manual entry, then a planning run | Someone remembers to look |
| Covers every stocked item | Yes, on-BOM and off, same card | Plans on-BOM materials well, has no line for the rest | Only if updated by hand |
| Compliance at the press | High, scanning is the easy path | Low, data entry waits on press time | Low, depends on one person |
| Setup time | Start with one item in a day | Months of implementation | Fast, but breaks as it grows |
| Works with your existing ERP | Yes, splices in, no rip and replace | It is the ERP | Disconnected from it |
| Cost to get started | $0 for your first 10 cards | High license and rollout cost | Free, until a stockout costs a day |
Weighing specific tools rather than whole approaches? The Arda Comparison Hub has side-by-side breakdowns against eTurns, Fishbowl, Katana, Cin7, Fastenal, Odoo, Sortly, and more.
No implementation project. Card a single item and the loop is running.
Free plan, no card required to try it. Paid plans add a 7-day trial.
Splices in alongside the plastics ERP you already chose, plus QuickBooks, NetSuite, Odoo and Xero. No rip and replace.
Priced per card, not per seat, so the whole floor can scan from day one.
Fat Fender put cards on the shelf after two ERP implementations had already failed, and kit output went from one a week to five. Start where it hurts most, on us, and let the second shelf reorder itself.
Free plan, unlimited users, and the ERP you already run stays exactly where it is.
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