Nightshift

Nightshift Sovereign · Industrial Operations

The operating layer for procurement, distribution, and the factory floor.

Agents that read and write your ERP, WMS, and MES. They take exceptions off your buyers' desks, expedite the right pallets, and keep the line moving, without ripping anything out.

The math nobody puts on the dashboard

What it costs to run operations by hand.

  • Procurement90%Manufacturing industry-average supplier on-time delivery. The other 10% reach your buyer through the supplier’s email, not your ERP.SourceDay · 2024 OTD benchmarks

    By the time your buyer responds to the slip, the build order has been running for two days and the at-risk customer commit is already on its third revision.

  • Fulfillment3% of COGSWalmart’s automatic OTIF fine for every non-compliant case. The published threshold is 98%. Mid-market manufacturing averages 91%.Walmart Supplier Compliance Program

    The customer’s procurement lead sees the slip before your planner does. The expedite math is always reactive.

  • Quality30 daysFDA’s expected closure window for major CAPAs. Overdue CAPAs are among the most-cited findings in FDA warning letters.FDA 21 CFR 820.100 · GMP guidance

    The defect was caught at 3 AM on the line. The paperwork waits until someone has the bandwidth on Friday. The next bad lot is already on a truck.

What the buyer's desk looks like

Every exception, drafted before standup.

Supplier slips, OTIF risk, quality holds. Each one surfaced the moment the signal hits, grounded in your systems of record, queued for a buyer's click before anything leaves the building. Below: one Tuesday of those drafts.

Daybook · Tue 14 May
  • 05:14 AM
    Procurement

    Stockout watch

    SKU-2241 trips the reorder threshold overnight. The agent walks the BOM, sizes the run, and drafts a PO to the primary for the buyer to send at first standup.

  • 06:42 AM
    Procurement

    Supplier slip response

    Acme Steel slips 14 days on PO 48201. Blast radius computed across four SKUs. Two RFQs drafted to alternates, one revised customer commit attached.

  • 09:21 AM
    Logistics

    Expedite math

    OTIF risk on SKU-9921. Three carrier expedite quotes scored against unit margin. The cheapest option is drafted and ready to send, with the forwarder pre-emailed.

  • 11:38 AM
    Fulfillment

    OTIF watch

    Atlanta DC slipping on four orders. Revised commits drafted to each customer planner, exception lanes opened, EDI 855 updates queued.

  • 02:14 PM
    Quality

    Quality hold + CAPA

    Lot 224B fails inbound at 0.4% defect rate. CAPA opened, supplier corrective action drafted, downstream customer shipments flagged with revised dates.

  • 06:30 PM
    Operations

    Shift handover

    End of B shift. The agent writes the brief for C shift: four open issues, one decision waiting for the next supervisor, three lines on what is steady.

Built for the procurement committee

Compliance and traceability are not a bolt-on.

  • Audit trail by construction

    Every read, write, and draft tied to the originating event and the operator who approved it. No reconstruction projects at audit time.

  • 21 CFR Part 11, ISO 9001, OSHA

    Electronic-signature workflows, deviation tracking, and document control mapped to the standards your auditors already ask about.

  • Air-gapped and on-premise

    The whole stack runs inside your perimeter. Same Helm chart deploys to a sovereign cluster as to your dev environment.

Where it earns its keep

Three operating areas. Day-one impact.

Sheet · PROCUREMENT01

Procurement & supplier ops

Inbound parse, PO reconciliation, OTIF tracking, supplier scorecards, RFQ drafts, expedite math, dual-source recommendations. The desk a buyer wishes they had.

  • Reads and writes ERP: SAP, NetSuite, Oracle, JDE, Dynamics
  • EDI 850 / 855 / 856 / 810 ingestion and reconciliation
  • Drafts RFQs and revised commits with the analysis attached
Sheet · WAREHOUSE02

Warehouse & fulfillment

Slot optimization, replenishment exceptions, OTIF risk, cycle-count anomalies, picker workload triage. Watching every DC every hour without adding headcount.

  • Reads and writes WMS: Manhattan, Blue Yonder, Infor, HighJump
  • Forwarder portals and TMS integration for expedite quotes
  • Drafts customer commits and tracks against actual shipping
Sheet · PLANT FLOOR03

Plant floor & quality

Downtime root-cause first pass, scrap-rate watch, quality-hold paperwork, CAPA drafting, shift-handover digests. The work that runs the shift, surfaced before it runs you.

  • Reads MES and historian data: Rockwell, Siemens, GE Proficy
  • Drafts CAPAs, deviation reports, and supplier corrective actions
  • Shift handovers digested into a single brief for the next crew

Reads where you read. Writes where you write.

System-of-record depth, not surface-level connectors.

Nightshift treats your ERP, WMS, and MES as the source of truth. Not a SaaS-only middleware tier that papers over the real systems. EDI feeds, on-prem connectors, and air-gapped deployments are first-class.

Reads & writes

Systems of record
  • SAP S/4HANA
  • SAP ECC
  • Oracle Fusion / EBS
  • NetSuite
  • Dynamics 365
  • JD Edwards
  • Infor LN / M3
  • Manhattan Active
  • Blue Yonder
  • Rockwell FactoryTalk
  • Siemens Opcenter
  • GE Proficy

Lives alongside

Collaboration surface
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Outlook & Exchange
  • SharePoint
  • Box
  • Google Drive
  • Dropbox
  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • Forwarder portals
  • Supplier portals

Built for the procurement committee, not the IT slide

Roles it serves on day one.

REV · A

Your supply chain expert

A single board for OTIF, expedite spend, and supplier risk across the network. Drill from a number to the underlying exceptions in two clicks.

REV · B

Your buyer

PO desk-of-record. Inbound parsed, supplier scorecards live, RFQs drafted, dual-source recommendations grounded in your own history.

REV · C

Your plant lead

Shift digests written before standup. Downtime root-cause first pass attached. The five questions you were going to ask, already answered.

REV · D

Your quality team

CAPAs and deviation reports drafted from the source event. Audit trail rendered from your existing data. ISO and FDA paperwork that almost writes itself.

Bring Nightshift to your sites

Make the next exception the agent's problem.

Pilots are scoped per site, per stack, and per the work you most want handled. Send us the picture and we will come back with a plan.

  • Tell us your sites, your stack, and the exception you wish would handle itself
  • A scoped pilot back inside a week
  • No rip-and-replace. Nightshift sits next to what you already run