When email and spreadsheets stop working: Work order approval workflows for field teams on the move
Enhance efficiency, reduce errors, and optimize production processes with Nutrient’s powerful workflow automation solutions tailored for the manufacturing industry.
USE CASES
Connect teams and systems across the shop floor, supply chain, and back office with workflows built for precision and efficiency.
Streamline scheduling and resource allocation to maximize production efficiency.
Automate inspection processes, ensuring quality standards are consistently met across all production lines.
Improve communication and coordination with suppliers through automated order processing and tracking.
Automate inventory tracking and replenishment processes, reducing stockouts and overstock situations.
Simplify the onboarding process for new hires, ensuring all necessary training and documentation is completed promptly.
PROVEN AT SCALE
Standardized operations and ensured SOX compliance with Nutrient Workflow. Managed a 30 percent increase in process volume without new staff, saving $30K in overhead, while streamlining driver development, help desk, and finance approvals.
Replaced back-and-forth email approvals with automated workflows for check requests, shipping loads, time off, and more. Improved accountability, cleared bottlenecks, and gave managers real-time visibility with dashboards and KPIs.
Automated order processing and approvals, integrating directly with its internal database. Eliminated paper routing, cut order completion time in half, and gained full transparency for reporting and KPIs.
Workflow Automation integrates with your tech stack — including finance systems, procurement platforms, and approval tools — using APIs, webhooks, or SFTP. No extra middleware required.
Set up a production workflow in Nutrient's process builder by mapping your approval chain — production supervisor, quality manager, plant director — and attaching the relevant form or document at each step. Approval routing can be conditional: if a quality check fails, the workflow automatically re-routes to the quality team before advancing. Production staff submit requests through a web form or mobile app, and every step is tracked in real time with a timestamped record.
Upload your SOPs as document templates or PDF forms within Nutrient Workflow, then attach them to a recurring review process with defined intervals and approver roles. When a review cycle is due, the workflow automatically notifies responsible parties, collects acknowledgements or e-signatures, and archives the completed document with a timestamped audit trail. This replaces email-based SOP management and keeps you ready for ISO, FDA, or internal audits without manual follow-up.
Workflow automation structures and routes human and document-centric tasks — approvals, sign-offs, inspections, and form submissions — through a defined process with accountability at each step. Robotic process automation (RPA) automates repetitive system-to-system data tasks, like copying data between screens or extracting from legacy systems, without human judgment involved. Nutrient Workflow handles the human-in-the-loop, document-heavy side of manufacturing operations — it is not an RPA tool.
Yes. Nutrient supports on-premise and private cloud deployment, which means your workflow data never leaves your own network perimeter. This is the preferred deployment model for manufacturers with air-gapped networks, OT/IT separation requirements, or facilities operating under strict regulations. Contact the Nutrient team for a deployment architecture review specific to your facility setup.
Yes. Nutrient includes REST API integrations that work with SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, and other ERP platforms. Purchase requisitions, maintenance work orders, and production approvals in Nutrient can automatically sync status and document data back to your ERP — eliminating duplicate data entry and keeping your systems of record up to date.
Nutrient handles the process and document management aspects of quality — routing inspections, collecting sign-offs, managing SOP acknowledgements, and maintaining audit trails. Nutrient Workflow is not a purpose-built QMS and does not include modules like FMEA, CAPA tracking, or statistical process control. Many manufacturing teams use Nutrient alongside a QMS, automating the document approval and routing workflows that QMS tools typically do not handle well.
Contact us today to find out how workflow management can help manufacturing companies.
