Manufacturing

Improve margins. Keep production moving. Deliver on time.

Noho reads your Excel pricing sheets, rate cards, vendor invoices, and purchase orders so AI workers can price quotes from current costs, adjust schedules as conditions change, and catch a shortage before it delays an order.

AI workers for manufacturing

Quoting & margin

Today: Quotes are built in spreadsheets using outdated material costs, labor rates, and pricing agreements. Similar jobs get different prices depending on who prepares them, and nobody knows whether the quoted margin held until the job closes. With Noho: Noho connects past jobs, current material costs, labor rates, and customer agreements. The AI worker prices new quotes from comparable work, checks margins against your pricing rules, and sends approved quotes to customers.

Production scheduling

Today: Production schedules are built around machine capacity, material availability, and labor plans that change throughout the day. A machine goes down or a supplier misses a delivery, and planners spend hours rebuilding schedules while customer orders fall behind. With Noho: Noho connects production orders, machine availability, inventory, and labor schedules. The AI worker adjusts production plans when conditions change, reallocates available capacity, and updates delivery dates for affected orders.

Order management

Today: Customer orders arrive through EDI, email, PDFs, and portals. Someone checks prices, inventory, and delivery requirements before entering each order into the ERP. An incorrect part number or missed change can delay production or lead to the wrong shipment. With Noho: Noho connects incoming orders to customer records, product catalogs, pricing agreements, and inventory. The AI worker validates orders, enters them into the ERP, resolves routine discrepancies, and routes exceptions that need approval.

Procurement & supply chain

Today: Material requirements, supplier lead times, and purchase orders sit across different systems. Buyers discover shortages after production is already scheduled, then spend hours calling suppliers, expediting shipments, and finding alternatives. With Noho: Noho connects bills of materials, inventory, production schedules, and supplier records. The AI worker identifies upcoming shortages, places purchase orders, expedites delayed materials, and finds approved alternatives before production is affected.

Revenue leakage

Today: A customer changes an order after production starts. Extra materials, expedited freight, and additional work get approved by email but never make it onto the invoice. The manufacturer absorbs costs that should have been billed to the customer. With Noho: Noho connects customer contracts, order changes, production records, and invoices. The AI worker identifies unbilled charges, checks them against customer agreements, and prepares corrected invoices to recover the missing revenue.

Production cost control

Today: A production run uses more material and labor than planned. Scrap increases, machines sit idle, and costs climb. The ERP shows the full variance after the job closes, when the next production run may already have the same problem. With Noho: Noho connects production records, material consumption, labor hours, and actual job costs. The AI worker identifies cost overruns as they develop, traces them to the source, and flags the production runs that need corrective action.

What comes with Noho

Connect your data.

Connect the systems you already run, including those without APIs. Resolve conflicting records and bring operational data into a common model so your teams and AI workers use the same trusted facts.

Capture your expertise.

Turn policies, procedures, and operating knowledge into a shared foundation for your AI workforce. Capture the rules and context that guide decisions across your business.

Deploy your AI workforce.

Start with pre-built AI workers tailored to your industry or work with our engineers to build for your specific processes. Coordinate work across systems, with your rules governing actions and approvals.