The platform
Everything a workshop actually runs on, and nothing it doesn't.
Mzalendo is deliberately narrow. It covers the five things that decide whether a plant makes money this month, connects them properly, and refuses to become a general-purpose ERP that nobody has time to fill in.
Manufacturing Pulse
One score, five subsystems, and the reason it moved.
Each subsystem is scored from live records, then weighted by how fast it can stop a plant. A run that has slipped hurts more than a supplier who was two days late, so the weighting says so.
| Subsystem | Weight | Scored from |
|---|---|---|
| Production | 26% | Run progress against plan, and any run past its end date |
| Inventory | 22% | Items below their minimum, weighted by how far below they are |
| Orders | 22% | Late orders, and orders falling due inside three days |
| Maintenance | 16% | Machines stopped, faults still open, services overdue |
| Suppliers | 14% | Delivery reliability earned from receipts, plus overdue purchase orders |
Modules
Connected, so entering something once is enough.
Inventory
Materials with a minimum level and a reorder quantity. Every movement is written to a ledger with the balance after it, whether it came from the office or a handset.
Products and BOM
What you build and what one unit consumes. The bill of materials is what lets the plant work out shortages before a run starts, and consume stock when it finishes.
Orders
Customer orders that explode into dated production runs. Customers get an SMS at each status change, if they want one.
Production
Runs with stages the floor ticks off from their phone. A Gantt view shows two weeks at a glance and marks anything that has slipped.
Procurement
Purchase orders against suppliers, with partial receipts. Reliability is earned from what actually arrived and when, not typed in by hand.
Maintenance
Machines, service intervals and faults. A critical fault reported from the floor stops the machine and texts the managers immediately.
Quality
Checklists against a batch. A failure raises an alert and blocks the comfortable assumption that everything shipped fine.
People
Workers, attendance and safety incidents. Clocking in happens on the handset, so it does not need a card reader that nobody maintains.
Reports
Throughput, consumption, downtime, on-time delivery and QC rate — plus a CSV export of every table for your accountant.
The floor line
Seven options. No app, no bundle, no training.
The menu is short on purpose. Every branch finishes inside thirty seconds, because a reporting system people find tedious is a reporting system that stops being used by Thursday.
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1
My tasks
The runs assigned to them, with progress and due date
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2
Report production
Pick a run, enter units done — updates the run and the schedule
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3
Report stock
Issued, received, counted or wasted, straight into the ledger
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4
Machine fault
Machine, fault, severity. Critical stops the machine and texts managers
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5
Safety incident
Type and severity, recorded against the worker
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6
Clock in or out
Attendance without a card reader
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7
Stock check
Everything currently below its minimum
Workers can also just text the shortcode. TASKS, STOCK, IN, OUT and DOWN all work without opening a menu at all.
REPORT PRODUCTION 1. RUN-0003 Swing gate 3 2. RUN-0001 Steel cabine 3. RUN-0002 Storage box 4. RUN-0005 Wheelbarrow
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See it running
Set up your plant, register a worker's number, and have them dial in. The Pulse starts reading the moment there are records to read.