The ERP that runs your business as projects, not products.
When every order is a discrete job — quoted, delivered and invoiced once — the project is your real unit of work. ARKcelerate makes the project the spine of the whole system, so cost, schedule and margin for every job live in one place.
The problem
Product-shaped ERPs cannot see a project.
Mainstream ERPs are organised around an item master: the same product, made repeatedly, planned by demand and replenishment. A project business does not work that way. You deliver a different job each time, with its own scope, schedule, budget and margin — and the question that matters is never "how many did we make?" but "how is this project doing?".
Forced into a product model, the project itself has nowhere to live in the ERP. So it moves into spreadsheets and status meetings: budgets in one file, schedules in another, profitability reconstructed at month-end. Nobody has a live, single view of a job from win to invoice.
How it works
The project is the spine.
One project ID the whole system follows
A win in CRM mints a Project ID, and from that moment every module — tasks, manufacturing, purchase, inventory, quality, finance — reads and writes against that one project. No re-keying at handoffs.
Live project profitability
Every quote, bill, payment and invoice is tagged to its project, so estimated-vs-actual cost, gross margin and cash per job come straight off the project-profitability report — not a month-end reconciliation.
A portfolio view across every job
See all live projects at once — which are over budget, which are slipping, which are waiting on an approval or a part — instead of opening three systems to assemble the picture.
Schedule and shop floor in sync
Project milestones, manufacturing orders and procurement share the same project, so a slip in production shows up against the project schedule automatically.
Win-to-invoice on one thread
CRM to project to tasks to manufacturing (purchase and inventory feeding in) to quality to finance — one lifecycle, one record, no parallel spreadsheet.
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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 all attach to one project, so cost, schedule and profitability for that job are visible in one place.
How is it different from a standard manufacturing ERP?
Standard ERPs assume the same product is made repeatedly from a fixed BOM and plan by demand. Project shops deliver a different job each time. ARKcelerate models the project lifecycle natively instead of forcing each job into a catalogue-product structure.
Can it show profitability per project in real time?
Yes. Because every transaction is tagged to its project, P&L, margin and cash position per project are generated from the ledger directly — no separate cost-allocation spreadsheet and no month-end wait.
We engineer each order — is that covered?
Yes. Engineered-to-order is one shape of project-based manufacturing; see our engineered-to-order ERP page for the design-approve-build loop in depth.
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.