Verticals · Manufacturing
The plant, the vendors, the paper trail — one graph.
Work orders, purchase orders, machines, and vendors live in the same system, so the state of the plant is a question you can ask instead of a meeting you have to hold.
Why one system
The plant runs on an ERP that ends at the loading dock, a maintenance system nobody updates, and a purchasing spreadsheet only one person understands. The real state of the floor lives in a morning meeting.
One system where the work order, the machine it serves, and the PO that fixes it are the same graph.
The objects you’d define
work orders
workflow · tasks · locations
Calibrations, services, inspections — staged, gated, and assigned to the line they belong to.
purchase orders
deal · contacts · attachments
A PO is a deal in a procurement setting: two parties, an offer, terms, a close.
machines
hierarchy · locations · activity
Lines carry machines, machines carry service history. What happened stays with the asset.
vendors
contacts · website · phone
One directory of the people and companies behind every PO and service call.
- Requested
- Quoted
- Approved
- Delivered
A purchase orders pipeline — plant ↔ vendor — same deal primitive, your labels.
How it runs.
A maintenance request comes in from Line 3. It becomes a work order with an owner, a due date, and a location — and because the work order object carries workflow rules, it can’t close without a supervisor sign-off.
The replacement part is a purchase order: the vendor on one side, the plant on the other, a quoted amount and a final one. The PO pipeline reports like any deal pipeline, because it is one.
When the vendor’s contract comes up for renewal, that’s a deal too — same primitive, different label.
The morning meeting gets shorter: Nomi has already chased the PO stuck in Quoted and reopened the work order that stalled in calibration, and “what’s open against Line 3?” is answered from the graph.
Nothing here is an industry edition — it’s the same primitives, named by the people who run the business.