For manufacturers with 50+ employees and disconnected operational systems

Your ERP is not the problem. The work between your systems is.

VOKT connects ERP, Excel, CRM, production systems and legacy software into one secure operational layer. Your systems stay. The manual work between them starts disappearing.

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No rip and replaceOn premise or own cloudAir gapped possibleRole and row security
ConnectSeeBuildAutomate
VOKT operational layer
01ERP
02Excel
03CRM
04Production
05Legacy
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One operating picture

Keep the software. Remove the gaps.

See the operation, build workflows and automate handoffs across the systems underneath.

Live dataacross systems
Workflowsaround your process
Automationacross handoffs
AIon your rules
The case

A 90 person manufacturer saved €1.3M in 8 months.

The important part: it did not replace its ERP.

Two engineers reviewing production data on a tablet on the factory floor
90
people
8
months
€1.3M
saved

The question is not whether they bought more software. It is where the waste was hiding.

Is €1.3M realistic? Here is the arithmetic.

90 people · 8 months · public benchmarks

An average EU manufacturer with 90 people turns over about €29.5M a year. Using published benchmarks and cautious assumptions, this is what connecting its systems is worth over 8 months.

Rounded. Cash released from stock is counted once, not as a yearly saving. Sources are listed at the bottom of the page.

They already had the software

People had become the integration layer.

The systems were not moving information. People were.

ERP

Orders, inventory, production plans

Moved by hand

Excel

Reports, tracking, manual data

Moved by hand

Email

Requests, updates, attachments

Moved by hand
An operations lead updating systems by hand on a tablet
A person in the middle

Documents

Specs, SOPs, drawings

Moved by hand

Production

Machine data, shop floor updates

Moved by hand

Customer data

Customers, orders, service cases

Moved by hand

Every time information had to move, a person had to move it.

Individually, the systems worked. Together, they did not.

  • No ERP replacement.
  • No massive migration.
  • No transformation that takes years.
  • No rebuilding the company around new software.
  • Instead: add the missing layer.
The arithmetic

What is the work between your systems costing you?

Change the assumptions below and run the same benchmark model on your own operation.

1
manual step
re entering data, for example
500+
jobs per month
orders, quotes, reports
90
people
across the business
4
weeks per month
every week, not once
It shows up in
Repeated entryWaitingSearchingReworkManual handoversAdministrationSlow decisions
This is the point of the page.Use your own numbers. The same model follows you into the friction map below, so the result becomes a diagnostic of your operation, not a generic software claim.

Run the same arithmetic on your operation.

Defaults are the EU average for a manufacturer. Replace them with your own numbers.

Benchmark range over 8 months
€0.7M to €1.8M
including €0.4M to €0.7M one off cash released from stock
Low to high benchmarkLine: the case, €1.3M
€0.6M to €1.6Mrecurring saving per year
5,000hours back per year

Same model and sources as the case breakdown above. An estimate to start a conversation, not a quote.

They connected what was already there

Connect. See. Build. Automate.

One operational layer above the systems you already depend on.

VOKT
ERP
Excel
Production
Files
Database
Email
Legacy

Seven sources. One layer.

ERP, spreadsheets, machines, files, databases, email and legacy systems stay exactly where they are. VOKT reads across all of them, so nobody has to carry information from one to the next.

0systems replaced
7sources connected
Deep dives

Five deep dives from one manufacturer.

Existing systems, spreadsheets and documents connected, without replacing the ERP.

  • Anonymous client
  • Manufacturing
  • ~90 employees
  • ~175 active projects
  • One company login
  • EU hosted models
Quality · Production

AI checks every cutting list before it reaches the saw

Errors in production documents were caught at the saw or at assembly, after one person had spent about 150 hours checking lists by hand.

The problem

Every piece of furniture has a cutting list in Excel: part, material, dimensions, edge banding and thickness. Checking was manual, line by line, from January to August 2026.

Data connected

  • Cutting lists, the Structure sheet
  • Drawing PDFs
  • About 1,100 plate materials
  • The team's rule package on the company file server

What was built

  • Four independent controls: lacquer notes, single or double sided (1PS/2PS), edge band against the drawing, and thickness against the material name
  • A plate fit check that accounts for rotation
  • Safe fixes applied automatically, everything else flagged per control for a human

Outcome

  • Zero false positives on automatic fixes across 28 real before and after pairs
  • The team owns the rules. A new standard is a file dropped into a folder, with no developer and no release
~150 hManual checking, January to August 2026
28 pairsValidation set
0False positives on auto fixes
3Rule versions uploaded by the team

Where the pattern repeats. Any business where an expert checks documents against a standard before work starts: bills of materials, drawings, tenders, compliance forms. The client keeps ownership of the rules.

Your operation

Where is the friction in your operation?

It usually is not one enormous problem. It is hundreds of small ones happening every day. Pick a step and tick what you recognise.

Sales

HANDOVER INTO THE NEXT STEPHandover gaps and lost context
    You recognise 0 frictions across the operation.
    That is what we look for.
    Your friction map

    What you told this page.

    €0.7M to €1.8Mbenchmark range, 8 months
    €0.6M to €1.6Mrecurring per year
    0frictions recognised

    Numbers come from the estimator above. Change the sliders or ticks and this map updates.

    Bring your operation, not a software wish list.

    Send us your map. We start the first conversation from your numbers, not a sales script.

    Book a demo
    Your map, the numbers above and your contact details go straight to the VOKT team. Nothing else is shared.
    Your data. Your infrastructure. Your rules.

    Run VOKT where the operation requires it.

    Drawings, prices and production knowledge are the business. Answer two questions and see where yours should live.

    Can your data leave your own building?

    Shared cloud

    Sandbox

    The fastest start. Where the 30 day trial runs.

    • Hosted and operated by VOKT
    • Pay monthly
    Our server, only yours

    Private

    A dedicated server operated by VOKT.

    • EU or US region, your choice
    • Nothing shared with other customers
    Your server

    Premise

    VOKT runs on your own hardware.

    • Data never leaves your building
    • Same price as Private
    Air gapped

    Sealed

    No connection out. For the most sensitive operations.

    • Fully isolated
    • Priced per case
    Our server or your server, the price does not move. Private and Premise cost the same. Bring your own AI key at no markup.
    How we start

    Start with the business problem. Not a software replacement project.

    The first step is finding where connection creates value fastest.

    01

    Map

    Systems, data, people, manual work and decisions.

    02

    Find value

    Where seeing, building or automating creates immediate impact.

    03

    Pilot

    Connect a real process and prove value fast.

    04

    Expand

    Move from one workflow to the business operating layer.

    Sources for the benchmark model

    1. Eurostat, Hourly labour costs 2025: €38.2 per hour in the euro area, €34.9 in the EU.
    2. Eurostat, Businesses in the manufacturing sector, 2023: €9.9 trillion turnover and €2.5 trillion value added from 30.2 million people, about €328k turnover and €83k value added per person.
    3. McKinsey Global Institute, The social economy: office workers spend nearly 20% of the week looking for internal information, which can be cut by as much as 35%.
    4. Quality Digest, What is your company’s cost of poor quality?: poor quality typically costs 5 to 30% of sales.
    5. US Census Bureau, Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales, July 2026: manufacturers hold 1.47 months of sales in stock.
    6. APICS, Cost of carrying inventory: carrying stock costs 15 to 25% of its value a year.
    7. Siemens Senseye, The True Cost of Downtime 2024: an average large plant loses 27 hours a month to unplanned downtime.
    Next step

    Find the money hiding in your operation.

    Book a mapping session. Bring your systems and your numbers, and we show you where connecting them pays first.

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