Manufacturing & Shop Floor Control
Your shop schedule changes faster than you can reprint it.
Production managers at growing manufacturers spend their days firefighting. A supplier ships late, a machine goes down, a rush order bumps the schedule, and suddenly your best plan is obsolete. By the time you reprint the dispatch list, it’s wrong again. Rover Manufacturing gives you real-time visibility into what’s actually happening on the floor, so you can adjust schedules, track costs, and make commitments you can keep.
Core Capabilities
Complete shop floor control without the complexity
Rover Manufacturing gives you the tools to plan, schedule, execute, and track production work from quote to completion, all while keeping costs, inventory, and schedules aligned.
Work Centers & Routing
Before you can schedule work, you need to define how work moves through your facility. Rover lets you build work centers with capacity standards, define routings at the part level or by function, and establish realistic run times that reflect your actual throughput.
Work Center Definition
Define work centers with capacity hours, queue times, and efficiency factors. Track utilization and identify bottlenecks before they choke production.
Flexible Routing Options
Create part-specific routings for custom products or general routings for standard operations. Define setup, run, pre-op, and post-op times.
Outside Processing Tracking
Flag work centers as outside processors. Track jobs sent out, received back, and costs incurred without losing visibility.
Graphical Schedule Views
See capacity loading by work center, spot overloads and gaps, and run what-if scenarios to evaluate the impact of new orders.
Work Order Management
Work orders are the engine of production. Rover gives you multiple ways to create them, multiple ways to schedule them, and real-time visibility into their status from launch to completion.
Flexible Work Order Creation
Generate work orders from sales orders, production plans, or manually. Launch single orders or batch-release based on MRP recommendations.
Scheduling Options
Forward schedule to maximize utilization, backward schedule from customer due dates, or manually sequence jobs based on shop floor realities.
Pick Lists & Travelers
Automatically generate inventory pick lists, work order travelers, or both. Give operators the information they need to execute without hunting for it.
Shortage Identification
Flag material shortages before work orders hit the floor. Avoid starting jobs that can’t be completed and tying up capacity on partial builds.
Partial Completions
Close work orders in increments as quantities are completed. Track partial shipments and keep inventory accurate without waiting for full completion.
Shop Floor Execution
This is where the plan meets reality. Rover gives operators and supervisors the tools to move work through routing steps, track progress, and capture costs without turning data entry into a full-time job.
Work Center Dispatch Lists
Supervisors see what’s in their queue, what’s coming next, and what’s overdue. Prioritize work based on real-time demand, not yesterday’s schedule.
Material Issue & Backflushing
Issue parts up front for tight control, backflush at completion for speed, or backflush by operation for granularity. Your process, your choice.
Barcode Integration
Minimize data entry errors with barcode scanning for work order movements, material transactions, and labor collection. Works on-screen or with handheld devices.
Real-Time Work Order Status
See where every job stands at any moment. No more walking the floor to get updates. No more spreadsheets tracking status outside the system.
Labor Collection & Costing
Accurate job costing requires accurate labor data. Rover captures time and attendance, tracks labor by job or operation, and posts costs in real time so finance knows what margins look like before the job ships.
Time & Attendance
Capture clock-in/clock-out data for payroll, track hours by job, or both. Export to your payroll system without re-keying data.
Actual vs. Standard Labor
Post actual labor hours and costs for precise job costing, or post at standard for cleaner variances. Track efficiency without turning costing into an accounting project.
Overhead Allocation
Apply overhead to jobs automatically based on labor hours, machine time, or custom allocation rules. Keep job costs complete without manual journal entries.
Non-Productive Time Tracking
Track downtime, maintenance, training, and other non-productive hours separately. Understand where capacity is being consumed even when it’s not building product.
The Real Cost
When the shop floor runs blind
When production teams don’t have real-time visibility into what’s coming, what’s running, and what’s blocking them, the schedule becomes a suggestion. Operators work on the wrong jobs. Materials get issued to the wrong work orders. Labor gets charged to closed jobs. Supervisors spend hours each day just trying to figure out what’s actually happening instead of managing the operation.
The downstream effects compound fast. Customer service can’t give accurate ship dates because they don’t know where jobs actually stand. Finance can’t trust job costs because labor and material usage isn’t captured accurately. Leadership can’t make capacity decisions because they’re working from outdated or incomplete data. The result is missed commitments, eroded margins, and constant firefighting instead of continuous improvement.
Late Deliveries
Jobs slip because supervisors don’t see bottlenecks forming until it’s too late to recover.
Hidden Cost Variances
Labor and material usage captured manually or retroactively means job costs are estimates, not actuals.
Constant Firefighting
Managers spend 60% of their time tracking down status instead of solving problems or improving throughput.
How it works
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Integrations
Connect with your existing stack
Rover connects with the tools you already use. From accounting platforms to shipping carriers, our integrations eliminate manual data entry and keep your operations synchronized in real time.
CUSTOMER SUCCESS
How our customers regain control with Rover
Legacy Migration / Operational Continuity
From 40% data risk to operational triumph
Toolrite Manufacturing secured high-risk legacy data and eliminated manual entry bottlenecks by migrating to Rover ERP, transforming disorganized systems into real-time operational insights.
ERP Integration / Manufacturing Scalability
Outgrowing Sage 50: A "remarkable" operational shift
Carr Manufacturing eliminated the “double entry” bottleneck and software bugs of Sage 50 by transitioning to Rover ERP, replacing a limited plugin with a fully integrated, customizable ERP and accounting solution.
Legacy Migration / Business Continuity
Modernizing 25 years of custom legacy data
US Wheel successfully migrated a quarter-century of complex custom data to Rover ERP, replacing a vulnerable, programmer-dependent application with a scalable Windows-based interface and advanced ERP features.
FAQS
Your questions answered
Can I track jobs across multiple manufacturing facilities?
Yes. Rover ERP lets you define and control as many manufacturing facilities as you need, treating each independently or together based on how you run your business. Each facility can have its own work centers, routings, and production schedules.
How do I handle partial shipments and material shortages on the floor?
The system allows partial completions on work orders and provides easy shortage identification. You can issue parts upfront, backflush all components at once, or backflush by individual operation depending on your process. Dispatch lists flag what’s late or shouldn’t still be in a work center.
Does the labor collection require manual data entry?
No. You can capture labor either on-screen or with integrated bar code devices and scanners. Employees can clock into and out of jobs, and the system tracks both productive and non-productive time. Labor can post as actual or standard cost, with optional overhead allocation to jobs.
Can I see capacity bottlenecks before they happen?
Yes. Graphical schedule views show you capacity issues and bottlenecks in real time. You can run what-if scenarios to see how a new order impacts your work centers, and the system will forward schedule, backward schedule, or manually schedule jobs to meet required dates.
How does the system prevent me from launching jobs when materials aren't available?
The shop floor module integrates directly with MRP and inventory control. Before you launch a work order from the planner screen, the system shows you shortages and lets you view all planned orders with real-time material availability. Inventory pick lists are generated so you know exactly what’s available and what’s needed.
See Rover in action
A 30-minute demo, tailored to your industry and pain points. No slides, no pitch deck. Just your questions and real answers from people who know manufacturing.
