AppCentral
“AppCentral makes everything work together smoothly, integrating various tools seamlessly, making it feel like I’m working with one unified system. Knowing that AppCentral is a forward-looking platform with strong support and continuous improvements gives me confidence in our ERP system’s future.”
-Craig Michaud, The Trailer Company
Overcoming Challenges With Smart Solutions
In the fast-paced world of discrete manufacturing, your business faces numerous challenges that slow operations, reduce profitability and hinder customer satisfaction. Without access to real-time insights, you can’t make decisions efficiently, creating bottlenecks across the supply chain. Outdated technologies further complicate your operations, leading to increased lead times, vendor issues and operational silos.
As technology advances, you must embrace solutions that enhance efficiency, streamline workflows and provide the flexibility needed to remain competitive. Aptean AppCentral for discrete manufacturing is designed to address these challenges with an AI-embeded, cloud-based platform that’s built specifically for the industry’s evolving needs. Our future-proof technology empowers manufacturers to overcome inefficiencies and thrive.
Purpose-Built for Discrete Manufacturers
Drive Efficiency with AI Agents and Automated Workflows
Improve Visibility with a Unified Platform of Connected Apps
Succeed with Support from Industry Experts
AppCentral for Discrete Manufacturing
AppCentral for Discrete Manufacturing unifies your operations across engineering, production, quality and delivery in a single intelligent ecosystem. Built for the way manufacturers work, it connects every tool and process end to end, streamlining workflows and surfacing real-time insights.
With Aptean Intelligence at AppCentral’s core, you can automate tasks, predict issues before they arise and make faster, more confident decisions— helping you stay ahead and focus on possibilities rather than problems.
AppCentral Platform Features
» A set of connected applications design to optimize discrete manufacturing operations
» Role-based AI workspaces to empower your staff
» Predictive insights for production and quality
» AI agents designed specifically for manufacturing processes and workflows
» Centralized management of users, subscriptions and integrations
Enterprise Resource Planning
Aptean Discrete Manufacturing ERP provides your organization with advanced planning and scheduling tools designed to optimize production efficiency and real-time decision-making.
Pre-connected with other AppCentral apps, our ERP integrates dynamic scheduling, shop floor management and profitability analysis into one cohesive system. The solution provides you with the visibility and control needed to streamline workflows, reduce downtime and drive profitability end-to-end, helping your business stay agile and competitive in today’s fast-paced environment.
Features and Functionalities
» Advanced Scheduling: Optimize production schedules using real-time data.
» Shop Floor Management: Manage work orders, materials and labor from one interface.
» Margin Analyzer: Identify profitability drivers and production variances.
Customer Relationship Management
Aptean CRM equips your company with the tools to optimize customer interactions from sales to service. Pre-connected with other AppCentral apps, the solution provides a comprehensive 360-degree view of customer data, enabling teams to deliver personalized engagement.
Automated workflows and real-time insights drive operational efficiency, improve decision-making and enhance customer satisfaction. With our CRM app, you can strengthen relationships, foster loyalty and streamline the customer experience.
Features and Functionalities
» Sales Automation: Manage and automate sales processes efficiently.
» Marketing Management: Track and optimize marketing campaign performance.
» Customer Support: Offer a centralized help desk for faster issue resolution.
Shipping
Aptean’s shipping solution simplifies and automates the entire shipping process by integrating with multiple carriers and offering realtime tracking. Pre-connected with other apps, it provides seamless coordination for streamlined operations.
Your business can reduce shipping errors, improve on-time deliveries and enhance customer experience through customizable shipping communications. By automating logistics tasks, our app ensures efficiency while optimizing costs through automated rate comparisons.
Features and Functionalities
» Multi-Carrier Shipping: Automate shipping processes across multiple carriers.
» Inventory Management Integration: Ensure on-time deliveries and optimize stock levels.
» Automated Documentation: Automatically generate accurate shipping documents.
Enterprise Asset Management
Aptean EAM seamlessly integrates with your other business applications, creating a unified experience that optimizes maintenance processes and asset performance. By providing real-time visibility into asset conditions, the app enables proactive maintenance, preventing unexpected equipment failures and downtime.
Our solution streamlines the management of maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) inventory, ensuring optimal stock levels and minimizing operational disruptions. With our EAM app, you can improve efficiency, reduce costs and enhance productivity.
Features and Functionalities
» Maintenance Scheduling: Automate and optimize maintenance procedures.
» Asset Performance Monitoring: Track performance in real time and prevent downtime.
» Inventory Control: Efficiently manage spare parts and inventory.
Electronic Data Interchange
Aptean EDI automates the exchange of critical documents between your discrete manufacturing business and your trading partners, eliminating manual processes and ensuring accurate, real-time data exchange.
Pre-connected with other AppCentral apps, our EDI app improves collaboration, speeds up transactions and reduces supply chain bottlenecks. This solution allows your company to streamline order processing, invoicing and fulfillment, ensuring seamless, reliable operations that align with industry demands.
Features and Functionalities
» Automated Document Exchange: Seamlessly exchange orders, invoices and key documents.
» Real-Time Data Synchronization: Ensure up-to-date information is shared across all partners.
» Compliance Management: Meet regulatory and trading partner standards.
Business Intelligence
Aptean BI consolidates and analyzes data from across your organization, integrating seamlessly with other applications to provide comprehensive, AI-enabled insights in real time. With pre-built analytics and customizable dashboards, you can make data-driven decisions that optimize processes and enhance profitability.
Our BI app offers end-to-end visibility into production performance, resource allocation and overall operational health, enabling better strategic planning and informed decision-making for long-term success.
Features and Functionalities
» Unified Data Insights: Consolidate data from all applications for visibility.
» Pre-Built Dashboards: Access dashboards tailored for manufacturing needs.
» Customizable Analytics: Create dashboards for specific business goals.
Trusted and Proven
Choosing Aptean means having a single, trusted partner for integrated technology solutions, simplifying operations, reducing complexity and enhancing efficiency. With industry expertise and dedicated support, we help drive sustainable business success.
Aptean Pay enhances financial agility by streamlining payment processing and optimizing cash flow management. Seamlessly integrated with other AppCentral apps, our solution enables your business to securely accept digital payments and ACH/eCheck while ensuring compliance.
With near-real-time transaction capture, you can accelerate accounts receivable reconciliation, automate invoicing and improve payment efficiency through a user-friendly digital portal. This robust app enables sustainable financial success for manufacturers.
Features and Functionalities
» Real-Time Payments: Streamline accounts receivable and improve cash flow.
» Automated Invoicing: Utilize ACH and credit card payment options.
» Secure Payment Integration: Accept credit, debit and ACH/eCheck payments.
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Aptean Intelligence for Discrete Manufacturing
AI That Understands Your Business. And Powers It.
Aptean Intelligence embeds AI directly into your applications, workflows and workspaces, turning everyday work into intelligent action.
Ask natural-language questions about your data, develop agents without coding, automate workflows and access executive-ready insights, so your teams move faster, protect margins and deliver better customer outcomes without waiting on reports or custom development.
Key Benefits
» Replace static decks and spreadsheets with realtime answers and digests, helping you go from data to decisions more quickly
» Automate with event-driven workflows to eliminate manual handoffs across your systems
» Use prebuilt agents and workflows that reflect manufacturing realities so you see impact faster
GenAI Query
Ask questions in plain language and get, realtime answers and charts; no BI queue, no spreadsheets. This feature gives every role a faster path from data to decision, reducing reporting delays and revealing issues before they grow.
» Ask questions to get natural-language answers with instant visualizations
» Pin favorites for a live, personal pulse
» Speak to chat/voice assistant with oneclick share/export
Intelligent Workflows
Enable no/low-code, event-driven automation that listens for business signals and orchestrates cross-system actions in real time. Replace firefighting with automated workflows and human-in-the-loop approvals that cut manual effort and protect margin.
» Deploy real-time event triggers across systems (350+ connectors)
» Set up AI-driven steps + human-in-theloop approvals
» Leverage reusable templates with full audit trails
Role-Based Workspace
Enable all staff with an AI-first, role-based workspaces that offer daily digests, naturallanguage Q&A and instant drilldowns. Get a live pulse of your business and one-tap delegation to move decisions forward— anytime, anywhere.
» Distribute AI-driven daily digests by role and topic
» Find answers via natural-language Q&A with instant drill-downs
» Stay agile with one-tap delegation and mobile/voice access
Predictive Intelligence
Get ahead of issues before they happen. Predictive Intelligence uses machine learning to detect risks, forecast downtime and recommend proactive actions, so your teams can plan, not react.
» Analyze live and historical data to predict unplanned events and performance trends
» Implement real-time alerts and probability scoring flag issues early
» Drive continuous improvement of selflearning models through user feedback
Aptean Intelligence for Discrete Manufacturing
AI Agents That Keep Orders Moving and Customers Informed.
Aptean AI Agents help manufacturing teams stay on top of every order, from quote to delivery. By combining fulfillment visibility with proactive communication, these agents anticipate delays, reprioritize tasks and keep both internal teams and customers aligned.
Use Cases
» Automatically create, update and remind customers about quotes nearing expiry
» Monitor fulfillment readiness and reorder priorities when materials or shipments are delayed
» Notify customer service and sales when order statuses change or exceptions occur
» Provide real-time insight to planners and reps — no waiting for daily reports or emails
AI Agents deliver faster fulfillment, fewer surprises and a seamless customer experience across every order and role.
Key Benefits
» On-Time Delivery: Detect and resolve fulfillment risks before they affect customers
» Sales Efficiency: Automate quote follow-ups and updates
» Operational Agility: Dynamically reprioritize production and purchasing
» Customer Transparency: Keep customers informed automatically with real-time status
» Unified View: Connect sales, operations and service data in one workflow
