Built for OEMs & Make-to-Order Manufacturers
One missing component.
14 work orders stalled.
You find out when the line stops.
Aztela intercepts the cascade before it hits your floor — connecting supplier delays to work order impact to delivery risk, automatically, in real time.
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OEMs and MTO manufacturers where one bad component decision costs days.
You assemble complex products from dozens or hundreds of bought components. Your production plan is only as good as your supply chain visibility — and right now that visibility has a 3-day lag built into it. We remove the lag.
Urgent problems
The exact issues costing you money right now
A component went on backorder 3 weeks ago. You found out when the line stopped.
Your MRP generated the PO. The supplier slipped the date. Nobody connected that delay to the 14 work orders waiting on that component — until the line stopped, labor was already scheduled, and $80K in staged materials was sitting idle. The shortage was visible in your own system. Nobody was watching.
Your line ran a full shift on an outdated spec. $11K in scrap. Nobody caught it.
Engineering updated the BOM. The change lived in the engineering system. Production kept running version 2.3 while version 2.4 was already approved. By the time a supervisor caught it, you had a shift of scrap, a rework queue, and a delivery you couldn't make. The fix took 10 minutes. The fallout took 3 days.
The order was two days late. You found out when the customer escalated.
Work orders move through your floor invisibly. Delays form silently at one stage and compound across the next three. By the time it surfaces, the deadline is gone, the customer is already frustrated, and you have no good answer for what happened. There was no window to intervene — because there was no signal.
Your sales team quoted 3-week lead time. The line running that job was already booked 5 weeks out.
There's no live capacity view that sales can access before committing. Promises get made on instinct, confirmed with a call to the floor, and broken when reality catches up. The customer relationship absorbs the hit. This happens on multiple quotes every month.
The cascade problem — solved
One supplier delay. Here's what happens in two worlds.
Component HV-442. Hydraulic Valve. Supplier pushes lead time +21 days.
Without Aztela
Supplier emails to say component HV-442 will be 3 weeks late.
Email forwarded to purchasing. Gets missed in inbox.
Purchasing updates the PO. No one tells production planning.
Production planner notices jobs are stalling but doesn't know why.
Line stops. 14 work orders stuck. $80K in staged materials idle.
8 customers call about late deliveries. Expedite ordered at 3× cost.
Result: Line down 2 days. 8 customers missed. Expedite at 3× cost.
With Aztela
PO updated in system. Aztela detects the delay instantly.
Automatic cascade analysis: 14 WOs affected, 8 deliveries at risk, $340K exposure.
Planner alerted with specific work orders, dates, and recommended actions.
Expedite from alt supplier approved. 6 deliveries protected.
3 customers proactively notified with revised dates before they ask.
Line never stops.
Result: Line never stops. 6 deliveries protected. 3 customers notified proactively.
What you're trying to achieve
Your goals. Our obsession.
Know about component shortages before they reach the floor.
When a supplier PO slips, you know within the hour which work orders are affected, which deliveries are at risk, and what your options are — before a single line stops.
Engineering and production always on the same BOM.
Changes propagate automatically with version control and cutover logic. Scrap and rework from version drift stop being a line item on your P&L.
Commit to delivery dates you can actually keep.
Live capacity visibility that sales can use before quoting. No more promises made on instinct that ops has to absorb.
How we fix it
Precision solutions. Outcomes you can measure.
Component Shortage Cascade Detection
The moment a supplier PO is updated, Aztela traces the impact across every open work order automatically. You get a prioritized view of which jobs are at risk, which deliveries will be affected, and what actions to take — before anything stops.
Live WIP Visibility
Every work order tracked stage-by-stage in real time. Delays are flagged automatically before they compound. Supervisors see the signal while they still have time to act.
BOM Change Propagation Engine
Engineering changes flow automatically to the production floor with version control and cutover logic. No manual handoffs. No stale specs. Scrap from BOM version mismatches drops to near zero.
Live Capacity Intelligence
A real-time view of line capacity and committed load that your sales team can access before quoting. Delivery promises are grounded in what the floor can actually deliver.
Live demo — cascade intercepted
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Plastics / Injection Molders
Cycle time drift detection, shot-count tooling wear tracking, and shift-level scrap attribution.
Contract Manufacturers
Multi-customer capacity visibility, shared component allocation, and automated customer status reporting.
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