The ERP built for project-based manufacturing.
Generic ERPs are built for repetitive production. Project shops run differently — every order is its own project: engineered, approved, fabricated and commissioned once. ARKcelerate is built for exactly that.
The problem
Why generic ERPs fail project shops.
Mass-production ERPs assume the same product runs down the line again and again. A project-based manufacturer delivers a different engineered item every time — its own drawings, its own bill of materials, its own customer approvals, its own ship date. Forced into a repetitive-production model, all the real project work spills out into spreadsheets and email.
The result is familiar: cost and schedule live outside the system, profitability is reconstructed at month-end, and nobody can answer “how is project X actually doing?” without a chase across three departments.
How it works
How ARKcelerate is different.
Every record threaded to a project
A win in CRM mints a Project ID. From that moment, every module — customer approvals, manufacturing, purchase, inventory, quality, finance — reads and writes against that one project.
Versioned BOMs that survive change
Engineering changes version the bill of materials without retroactively breaking the manufacturing orders already released on the floor.
Customer approvals drive QC
Approved drawing revisions flow straight into the inspections that check against them — so quality is always testing the version the customer signed off.
Project-tagged profitability
Every invoice, bill and payment carries its project, so P&L, gross margin and cash by project come straight from the project-profitability report — not a month-end spreadsheet.
One lifecycle, end to end
CRM → project → customer approvals → manufacturing (with purchase and inventory feeding in) → quality → finance, all in one system, all on one project.
FAQ
Common questions.
What is a project-based manufacturing ERP?
It is an ERP where the project — not a repeating product — is the central record. Quotes, BOMs, work orders, purchases, inspections and invoices are all attached to one project, so you can see cost, schedule and profitability for that job in one place.
How is it different from a standard manufacturing ERP?
Standard manufacturing ERPs assume the same product is produced repeatedly from a fixed BOM. Project shops engineer a different item each time, with customer approvals and changes along the way. ARKcelerate models that lifecycle natively instead of forcing it into a catalogue-product structure.
Can it track cost and profitability per project?
Yes. Every transaction is tagged to its project, so P&L, margin and cash position per project are generated from the ledger directly — no separate cost-allocation spreadsheet.
Does it handle engineered-to-order work?
Yes — engineered-to-order is the core case. See our engineered-to-order ERP page for how the design-approve-build-ship loop works.
Run your next project on one system.
Start a trial, or talk to the engineers who built ARKcelerate to run their own project-based factory.