Your ERP plans the tubing, the housings and the components on the bill of materials. It never sees the gloves, the gowns, the wipes, the solvents or the single-use tooling your cleanroom burns through, and those are the ones that close a room. Arda puts a scannable card on every item you stock, on-BOM and off, so a scan fires the reorder from the supplier you have already approved, at the quantity you have already set. It runs alongside your ERP and your quality system and replaces neither.
Your first 10 cards are free. Nothing in your validated stack has to move.
Trusted by manufacturers including Austere, Assembly Industrial, and Fat Fender.
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 box of sterile gloves, a case of dosimeters, or a bin of sterile barrier pouches.
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 build changes what you burn, you resize the card once. Nobody recalculates a min/max by hand.
The shelf did not fail. The signal did.
Every shop in the country loses a day to a shortage. A device plant loses the day and then loses a document. The gowning room closes, the schedule does not move, and at 3pm on a Thursday a competent, well-meaning operator finds a way around it. The way around it is the part that outlives the shortage.
Gowning stock is the gate on the door. When the gloves or the sterile gowns run out, the room does not slow down, it closes. The build behind it misses its window, the seal validation slides, and the schedule moves for the price of a consumable nobody was watching. Your ERP never saw it coming, because a glove is not on any bill of materials.
When the shelf is empty and the schedule is not, someone finds a way. A box from the back that dated out last month. A second-source wipe that was never on the approved list. An adhesive tube stored warm because the fridge was full. Each one is a deviation, and each deviation becomes a nonconformance, an investigation, and eventually a CAPA. The stockout lasted an afternoon. The paperwork lasts a quarter.
An auditor picks one build record and asks which lot of adhesive went into it, and which lot of packaging sealed it, and when that material arrived. If the answer lives in a spreadsheet somebody updates on Fridays, or in the memory of the person who does the ordering, that is the finding. Not the material. The gap between what happened on the floor and what the record says happened.
Arda's inventory replenishment software for medical device manufacturers puts a scannable card on every item you stock, starting with the off-BOM consumables the cleanroom burns through. Scanning the card fires the reorder to the supplier you have already approved, at the quantity you have already set. No shelf survey, no purchase order to type, and nothing in your validated stack has to move. The same loop runs in every trade Arda serves; see the parent page on inventory replenishment software for the version that is not written for a cleanroom.
Your ERP plans the bill of materials and does it well. The materials that close a cleanroom are not on one. Nine of the twelve families below arrive lot-controlled, five of them arrive dated, and the ones most likely to run out are the cheapest things in the building. The same card goes on all twelve.
Every stocked item gets a durable card with a QR code, from a box of sterile gloves to a bin of pouches to a case of dosimeters. An operator 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 supplier you have already approved. No purchase order to type.
Purchasing and the quality lead see which cards are pulled, on order, or restocked across rooms and sites, without walking the floor.
Arda runs the replenishment loop and nothing else. It is not a quality management system, not an electronic device history record, and not a validated system. Your QMS keeps its records, your ERP keeps its lot genealogy, and Arda keeps the shelf full.
One more boundary worth stating plainly, because both things are square codes on a shelf: the QR on an Arda card identifies a bin for replenishment. It is not a Unique Device Identifier and it is not device labelling.
Each card carries a loop sized to your real burn rate and your supplier's lead time: reorder point, the two-bin system, min/max levels, and safety stock. The number lives on the card at the point of use, not in someone's head.
Card it today, scan it tomorrow, and see the reorder fire without anyone counting. Expand across the shelf when it has proven itself.
Count-everything tools fail because they add a task. Arda removes one. That is what holds adoption 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 adoption sticks where badge-in ERP screens lose the floor on day one.
No scanner gun, no new login, no training day. An operator 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 bin runs low, and the refill is already moving. Same motion for every item on the floor. No software to learn.
Orders fire at the right quantity with no stack of manual POs, and every card's status is in one place.
Hands off reordering for good and gets the hours back, with real consumption data across the whole shelf instead of gut feel.
None of these are device manufacturers. They are precision and production shops with the same shape of problem: the material that stopped the work was the material no system was watching. Read them for the mechanism and the numbers, not the industry.
Came to Arda after two failed ERP implementations. Eliminated stockouts across the parts they stock and cut the order backlog from more than a year to twenty days, without replacing anything.
Read the Fat Fender case study →Weekly stockouts gone, and the floor went from four builds at a time to eight in six months, with no bigger building and no bigger team.
Read the Assembly Industrial case study →Precision machine shop, the nearest neighbour this page has: bone screws, plates and Swiss-turned work are made this way. Same building, same team, same machines. One input changed.
Read the Austere case study →For the materials that actually close a room, 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 | On-BOM only, misses the rest | Only if updated by hand |
| Floor adoption | High, scanning is the easy path | Low, floor skips data entry | Low, depends on one person |
| Setup time | Start with one part in a day | Months of implementation | Fast, but breaks as it grows |
| Works with your existing ERP | Yes, splices in alongside it. Nothing in the validated boundary moves. | 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 QuickBooks, NetSuite, Odoo, Xero and more. No rip and replace.
Priced per card, not per seat, so the whole floor can scan from day one.
Start with the bin that emptied last week, on us. Card the gloves, scan the empty box, and the reorder fires to the supplier you already approved before the room has a reason to close.
Free plan, unlimited users, and nothing in your validated stack has to move.
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