Ostendo Continuum (ERP) for Project Manufacturing and Engineering
Ostendo Continuum ERP for Project Manufacturing & Engineering
From Quotation to Completion – Total Control Over Every Project
Project manufacturing and engineering businesses operate in a high-risk, high-complexity environment. Every job is unique. Costs must be tightly controlled. Designs change. Materials fluctuate. Deadlines are critical. Compliance is essential. And profitability depends on how well you manage each phase — from estimate to delivery.
Ostendo Continuum ERP is purpose-built to give project manufacturers and engineering firms end-to-end visibility, control, and confidence across the entire project lifecycle.
The Unique Challenges of Project Manufacturing & Engineering
Unlike repetitive manufacturing, project-based businesses face very different operational pressures:
- One-off or highly customised jobs
- Complex bills of materials and routings
- Engineering change management
- Long project timeframes
- Milestone billing and progress claims
- Tight control of labour, subcontractors, and overheads
- Strict compliance, traceability, and quality requirements
Without a fully integrated ERP system, these challenges quickly lead to cost overruns, margin leakage, delayed delivery, and reduced customer confidence.
Ostendo Continuum is designed to eliminate these risks.
End-to-End Project Control in One Integrated System
With Ostendo Continuum, every project is managed in a single source of truth, fully integrated across:
- Sales & Estimating
- Engineering & Design
- Project Management
- Manufacturing & Job Costing
- Purchasing & Inventory
- Labour & Timesheets
- Quality & Compliance
- Financials & Reporting
This eliminates silos, duplicate data entry, and disconnected spreadsheets — giving management real-time visibility of costs, progress, and profitability.
Accurate Estimating and Quotation Management
Ostendo Continuum enables detailed and repeatable estimating using:
- Historical project costs
- Labour standards and machine rates
- Material pricing and supplier data
- Multi-level bills of materials
- Subcontract and outside processing costs
Quotes seamlessly convert into live projects and manufacturing jobs — ensuring no loss of data accuracy between sales and production.
Engineering Change Control (ECN/ECO)
Design changes are a fact of life in project engineering. Ostendo Continuum provides full engineering change control to manage:
- Design revisions
- Version-controlled BOMs and routings
- Change approvals
- Cost and schedule impact analysis
- Full traceability of all changes
This protects margins while maintaining regulatory and customer compliance.
Project-Driven Manufacturing & Scheduling
Ostendo Continuum supports complex, multi-stage project manufacturing with:
- Make-to-order and engineer-to-order workflows
- Multi-level job structures
- Finite capacity planning
- Work centre scheduling
- Subcontract operations
- Progress tracking at every operation
You always know what’s running late, what’s on schedule, and what’s at risk.
Real-Time Job Costing & Profitability
Project profitability can change daily. Ostendo Continuum tracks:
- Actual vs estimated labour
- Actual vs estimated materials
- Subcontractor costs
- Overheads and burden recovery
- WIP and project margins in real time
This gives management the power to intervene early — before profits disappear.
Integrated Procurement, Inventory & Supply Chain
Ostendo Continuum links project demand directly to purchasing and inventory to ensure:
- Automatic generation of purchase orders from project demand
- Supplier lead time control
- Lot and serial traceability
- Landed cost tracking
- Material availability for each project phase
This ensures the right materials are available at the right time — without over-stocking cash-intensive inventory.
Mobile Project & Shop Floor Data Capture
With Ostendo Continuum’s mobility solutions, your team can:
- Record labour time onsite
- Capture job progress in real time
- Book materials directly to projects
- Perform inspections and quality checks
- Access drawings, routing, and job instructions
This dramatically improves data accuracy, eliminates delays, and enhances field productivity.
Quality Management, Compliance & Traceability
Ostendo Continuum supports strict industry compliance including:
- ISO 9001 quality systems
- Customer-specific QA requirements
- Engineering and documentation control
- Lot, batch and serial traceability
- Non-conformance and corrective actions
- Preventive maintenance
This is especially critical for industries such as:
- Heavy engineering
- Defence manufacturing
- Energy & infrastructure projects
- Food, pharmaceutical, and regulated manufacturing
- Mining and industrial equipment
Financial Control, Progress Claims & Revenue Recognition
Ostendo Continuum integrates project operations directly with financials to manage:
- Milestone billing
- Progress claims
- Retentions
- WIP valuation
- Cost-to-complete forecasting
- Revenue recognition
- Profit reporting by project, stage, or contract
This delivers complete financial transparency across the entire project lifecycle.
Business Intelligence & KPI Reporting
Ostendo Continuum integrates with Business Intelligence tools such as Microsoft Power BI® to deliver:
- Project performance dashboards
- Cost variance analysis
- Schedule performance indicators
- Labour efficiency metrics
- Material yield and waste analysis
- On-time delivery performance
Management gets real-time insight instead of last month’s history.
Designed for Australian & New Zealand Engineering Businesses
Ostendo Continuum (ERP) is ideally suited to:
- Project manufacturers
- Custom engineering workshops
- Fabrication and machining
- OEM equipment manufacturers
- Electrical and mechanical contractors
- Turnkey project businesses
It integrates seamlessly with leading accounting systems including MYOB, Xero, MoneyWorks, QuickBooks, Reckon and others.
Why Project Manufacturers Choose Ostendo Continuum (ERP)
- Full project lifecycle control
- Accurate estimating and margin protection
- Engineering change management
- Real-time job costing
- Integrated manufacturing and finance
- Strong compliance and traceability
- Scalable for growing project businesses
- Built for complex, real-world manufacturing
Final Word
Project manufacturing and engineering businesses don’t fail because they lack capability — they fail because they lack visibility and control.
Ostendo Continnum ERP gives you both.
From first quote to final delivery, Ostendo Continuum ensures every project is planned, tracked, controlled, and profitable.
