Manufacturing Management System for SAMEX
One system for quoting, purchasing, production, and warehouse - built for a manufacturer whose product complexity had outgrown its tools
SAMEX manufactures cutting room equipment - machines built to order, in configurations that vary from customer to customer and sells them to 65 countries across 6 continents. As order volume and product complexity grew, the tools holding the operation together stopped keeping up.
We built them a single platform covering the full order lifecycle: product configuration, purchasing, sales, production planning, and warehouse. It was the first system delivered end-to-end on Solarte Engine, our AI-powered platform - in production since Q4 2024, with zero downtime since. The results are below; so is how it was delivered.
Client Company Background
History & Evolution
Founded in 1988, SAMEX started as a cutting machine service provider and grew into Poland's leading manufacturer of cutting room equipment. Over 35 years, more than 6,000 companies worldwide have bought their machines.
Product Portfolio
SAMEX builds cutting machines, roller blind cutting tables, fabric spreading tables, rewinding machines, and specialized cutting systems - plus the round and vertical knives that go with them. Most products are configurable: the same machine ships in many variants, each with its own parts list.
The Challenge
Nobody plans their way into this situation - companies grow into it. Orders multiplied, configurations multiplied faster, and the tools that had once been enough - spreadsheets, paper product specifications, knowledge passed person to person - became the bottleneck. Every workaround made sense when it was created. Together, they meant:
Data Silos
Each department kept its own records - the same question got different answers depending on who you asked
No Universal Product Configuration
The exact parts list for each machine variant lived in experience and paper specifications
Deliveries and Reservations Managed by Memory
Expected deliveries and reservations for future runs had no system of record - so stoppages arrived without warning
Slow, Manual Order Creation
Every new production order meant re-entering information that already existed somewhere else
No Live View of the Warehouse
Stock counts showed what was in the building - not what was committed, awaited, or free to use
Assessment & Requirements
Unified Management Tool
One tool for warehouse, purchasing, sales, and production - the same data, the same answers, for every department.
Clear Product Definitions
A product defined once, with all parts required for its production in any configuration - so the right parts list follows automatically from the chosen variant.
Comprehensive Inventory Insight
End-to-end visibility of the component lifecycle: from parts on order with suppliers, through stock on the shelf, to items reserved for specific production runs.
End-to-End Process Tracking
The entire order lifecycle in one place - from the initial client quote, through every production step, to final delivery.
Solution Implemented
One integrated platform, four core modules - each built around how SAMEX actually works, not a template:
Product Configurator
Every product defined once, with the parts required for any valid configuration. Choose the variant, and the system produces the exact parts list - product knowledge encoded into the tool, not carried in heads and paper
Unified Purchase & Sales
One hub for creating and managing all orders - client orders and supplier orders in the same system, so the path from client request to production start no longer crosses departmental borders
Integrated Production
A real-time view of the entire production schedule, tied directly to component reservations - a build can only be scheduled against parts that are genuinely available
Warehouse with inventory
What's in stock, what's reserved, what's on the way visible on a timeline, with expected deliveries tracked so shortages surface while there's still a cheap way to fix them
How It Was Delivered
This was the first system built end-to-end on Solarte Engine, our internal AI-powered platform - and the project that proved what it could do.
The architecture and specification were defined by a senior architect; the Engine generated the implementation. Backend work we would have estimated at roughly 100 developer-days from a traditional team was generated in a day - and every change since has been just as disproportionate: requests that would normally queue for a sprint land in days.
The system went to production in Q4 2024 and has run with zero downtime since.
Results & Benefits
Fewer Production
Delays
Downtime caused by missing parts dropped by nearly a third - because reservations and expected deliveries are visible before a build starts, not discovered after
Enhanced Visibility & Control
Every component's status - in stock, on order, or reserved - in one view. The question "can we build this now?" went from an investigation to a glance
Accelerated Processes
Recording documents and key process steps, from order creation to production sign-off, takes half the time it used to - the same work, without the re-entering
