Fully automated operations for a manufacturing business
Manufacturing flow — warehouse, planning, purchasing, assembly, sales — was run on disconnected boards. We automated the entire chain end to end so that no manual step remains between order intake and delivery.
- Multi-phase
- Elvin Sharifov + backend / operations analyst
- System design · Engineering · Business process
- Live
Starting point
The manufacturer was running fragmented operations: raw materials in Excel, production plans on paper, finished goods in a separate system. Between order intake and delivery, there were dozens of manual transfers — each one a chance to fail.
The ask was direct: order in, product out, all of it in one system with minimum human intervention.
Decisions
- Order → planning → production → delivery as one state machine. Each step triggers the next automatically.
- Raw materials and finished goods on one system — one feeds the other. When stock drops, a purchase order opens itself.
- Production plan respects capacity — new orders aren't accepted unless there's a slot.
- Real-time dashboard — the director sees what's running, what's queued, what's late, without picking up the phone.
Execution
Stack: Laravel + Postgres, queue-based background jobs (planning, stock updates). Vue.js frontend, React Native mobile app for warehouse staff (intake, check-in). Barcode scanner integration for warehouse in/out.
“Automation isn't magic — it's turning every manual step into a system trigger. The hard part is people getting used to the new flow.”
Result
- Order → delivery now runs as a single flow — manual transfers are gone.
- Real-time dashboard — the director looks at the screen, not at a phone.
- Auto-purchase when stock drops — delays cut.
- Mobile app for warehouse staff — paper logs retired.