The back-office jobs a manufacturer does by hand.
lumic’s FDEs start beside the person who does each job today, then build one agent per job, inside the systems the plant office already runs. A person approves each entry.
01Vendor bills against purchase orders
The agent reads each vendor bill from email, matches it to the purchase order, and flags a price difference before anyone pays. A person approves it, and nobody retypes it.
- Agent · accounting software
- A person approves each entry
AP automation →
02Job costing during the job
Production data and costs read live, so estimate against actual shows up during the job, not at close.
- Dashboard · production data + ERP
- Overruns surfaced early
Dashboards and reporting →
03Purchasing and PO write-back
The agent drafts purchase orders and writes them back to the ERP, and a dashboard tracks open POs, receipts and vendor price changes.
- Agent · ERP
- Approval-gated
04Payroll entries
The agent builds the payroll journal entry from the payroll reports, checks every line, and the controller posts it.
- Agent · payroll reports + accounting
- Posted only on the controller’s click
Payroll →
05Month-end close
The agent prepares the recurring month-end entries and runs the tie-outs. Every entry lands unposted until the controller posts it.
- Agent · ERP
- The controller posts each entry
Month-end close →
06Live margin and cost
Sales and gross margin by customer, product and rep, read live, with the costs the agents enter showing up the same day.
- Dashboard · ERP
- No more morning export