MES

Eradicate the "We'll Update the System Later" Culture

When operators write times and material usage on paper to enter at the end of the shift, you lose all real-time visibility. This delay costs more than you think, causing production bottlenecks and rendering your planning data instantly obsolete.

Stop Wrestling with Standalone MES Complexity

Adding a standalone Manufacturing Execution System often feels like just another heavy system to maintain. These isolated "MES projects" frequently stall before go-live, creating new data silos and adding unnecessary complexity rather than actual value.

Break Free from Paper-Based Bottlenecks

When custom execution relies on greasy paper travelers and manual routing, miscommunications are inevitable. Executing outside your core ERP means you never truly know what is happening on the floor until a job is already late or scrapped.

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Close the Gap Between Planning and the Shop Floor

High-performing custom manufacturers are replacing standalone MES with ERP-centric execution. KIMCO delivers a digital-first reality where execution never stops at planning. We provide a standard-first architecture for rock-solid reliability, paired with a composable framework that brings flexible, low-code workflows directly to the work center—turning execution data into a strategic operational asset.

High Level Benefits:

Unify planning and execution in one real-time, connected system.

Standardize complex shop floor workflows using intuitive, no-code tools.

Let the shop floor talk back with mobile, digital-first data capture.

Gain the real-time visibility that instantly changes floor behavior.

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Purpose-Built Capabilities to Power Connected Execution

Connect estimating, scheduling, shop floor control, and financials—giving you the exact tools needed to digitize your operations from the first quote to the final shipment.

Bridge the Gap Between the Front Office and the Floor

Estimating & Quotes: Build quotes faster with standardized templates, real-time material costs, and customer history.

Opportunities to Orders: Ensure execution starts with accurate data. Convert winning estimates directly into active work orders.

Let the Shop Floor Talk Back with Digital Execution

Production: Track active jobs in real-time and adapt machine schedules instantly. When the shop floor is fully digitized, your visibility changes behavior, driving immediate accountability across every work center.

Time Keeping & Scrap Tracking: Eradicate paper timecards. Equip your operators with the tools to capture real-time execution data and continuously refine your planning.

Connect Execution to Material Flow

Parts & Inventory Management: Seamlessly tie your shop floor material consumption to live inventory levels, ensuring planners know instantly when raw materials are pulled for a job.

Shipping Workbench: Manage shipping from one centralized workbench, ensuring that digital execution carries all the way through to final delivery.

Turn Execution Data Into Financial Insight

Accounting: Accelerate your cash flow by effortlessly generating AR invoices the exact moment a digital work order is marked complete and shipped.

Tax Integration: Seamlessly handle complex, multi-jurisdiction tax compliances with native Avalara integration, protecting the margins you've fought hard to execute on.

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The KIMCO Advantage

Built for the dynamic reality of custom manufacturing, KIMCO doesn't just digitize your shop floor—we future-proof it. We deliver an enterprise-grade execution platform that captures the precise, real-time data required to fuel the future factory.

Standard-First Architecture: Deploy rapidly on a unified foundation that guarantees your planning, purchasing, and execution teams are all operating from the exact same real-time playbook.

The Composable Advantage: Map your exact proccesses using our drag-and-drop Konfigure toolset—allowing low-code workflows to change the execution game without IT intervention.

Connected Workstations: Give your machine operators, welders, and inspectors instant access to live data directly at their work centers.

AI-Ready Data: Centralize your shop floor metrics into a clean, structured dataset, perfectly positioned to leverage advanced AI tools for predictive maintenance and deep operational insights.

“Our estimators are happy. They love how specific and accurate the data is. Now, they know exactly how close we actually came to their estimates. This gives us the ability to close the loop on our estimating processes and become more accurate and competitive.”

Operations Manager

“’I’d tell you that if you don’t make this change, your tomorrows won’t be any different than your todays. And our tomorrows need to be different. We need to evolve as an organization and gather information that helps us make better decisions.”

President

“We are so happy we went with KIMCO ERP. After a vendor review, it became very clear that only a small number of solutions could handle what we needed. KIMCO was the only one that could handle all of it.”

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Ready to Transition to Digital-First Execution?

Stop letting paper-based control, isolated MES projects, and delayed shop floor updates destroy your profitability. Join the high-performing custom manufacturers who have unified their planning and execution on one agile, composable platform. See exactly how KIMCO can digitize your operations and turn execution into a strategic asset today.

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