Your shelf holds two kinds of shortage. The EDM wire and polishing stones you go through in a week, and the ejector sleeve you touch once a year and cannot buy in a day. Arda puts a scannable card on both, each one sized to its own burn rate and its own supplier lead time, so the reorder fires long before the tool is sitting on the bench waiting.
Your first 10 cards are free. Works alongside your ERP, no rip and replace.
Trusted by manufacturers including Austere, Assembly Industrial, and Rossmonster.
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 spool of EDM wire, a drawer of ejector pins, or a plate of tool steel.
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.
A tool room stocks what it burns in a week beside what it touches once a year, on the same shelf, in the same room. Both stop a build, and a system built for one of those populations is blind to the other.
The wire machine was loaded to cut through the weekend and the spool ran out on Saturday night, or the filter loaded up and pressure tripped it. Nobody was there. Monday morning the job is exactly where it was Friday, the try-out date has moved, and the shop paid for two days of floor space to watch a machine sit.
A mold comes back for repair with a broken ejector sleeve, or a die galls a wear plate on a Friday shift. Everyone assumed a common size was on the shelf because it is a common size. It is not, the replacement is two weeks out, and the customer's press is down for every one of those days.
Wire goes by the spool, filters go by run hours, resin goes by resistivity, and a bushing set goes by the year. A calendar reorder is wrong for all four at once, and an ERP min/max set for one wire machine is fiction the day you buy the second.
Arda's inventory replenishment software for tool, die and mold shops puts a scannable card on every item you stock, and sizes each card to that item's own burn rate and its own supplier lead time. A spool you go through in a week and a guide bushing set you touch once a year get the same card and the same scan, with different quantities encoded on them. No purchase order to type, no ERP rollout. Scan the card, the material shows up.
Fast movers are where the noise is, because they empty faster than anyone writes them down. Slow movers are where the damage is, because a bin that goes empty in March is not missed until October. The same card handles both, on-BOM or off, and each one is sized to its own item. These are ordered the way the shelf actually behaves: weekly on the left, yearly on the right. Everything here is what you build and repair tools from, not press-side spares.
Every stocked item gets a durable card with a QR code, from a spool rack to a drawer of ejector pins to a plate of P20 on the material rack. A toolmaker 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 what the item actually does: reorder point, the two-bin system, min/max levels, and safety stock. Buy a second wire machine and you resize one card, not a spreadsheet. This is the same loop Arda's inventory replenishment software runs in every trade it serves.
Card it today, scan it tomorrow, and see the reorder fire without anyone counting. Expand across the tool room 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 where badge-in ERP screens lose the floor on day one.
No scanner gun, no new login, no training day. A toolmaker 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 for quoting, with real consumption data across the whole shelf instead of gut feel.
Tool rooms and precision shops that put a card on the shelf, on the fast movers and the slow ones, and got their throughput and their hours back without adding people or machines.
Precision machine shop. Zero new hires, zero new machines. The one change was how material got reordered, and the owner got the hours back for quoting.
Read the Austere case study →Overland vehicle builder. Cards went on 100% of supplies inside a year, and holdings on critical components fell from 25+ to 5 while output went up 6×.
Read the Rossmonster case study →For the items that actually stop a job, 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 |
| Shop-floor compliance | 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, 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 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.
Assembly Industrial rolled Arda out in days and doubled what its floor could build, with no bigger shop and no bigger team. Start with the one item that moved your last try-out date, on us, and let the shelf reorder itself.
Free plan, unlimited users, no ERP rollout.
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