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Synclo for manufacturingQuote faster, and promise only what you can make.
Synclo CRM connects every quotation to real capacity, materials and margin, so your sales team quotes in hours, your planners are never surprised, and your customers get delivery dates they can trust.
USD 2,400 per tonne
- Resin and materials44%
- Line time17%
- Labour10%
- Packing and freight6%
- Margin23%
Alci priced the packaging film from current resin cost and line capacity. Quote sent in 2 hours.
Sample approved for food-grade trays. Customer asked for annual pricing.
Steel enclosures won. Alci reserved materials and booked line 2 for week 46.
Built for every kind of manufacturing business.
Manufacturers selling to distributors, OEMs and projects, from quote to delivery.
Synclo in one sentence. One subscription that runs sales, people, finance, projects, service, supply and learning, with Alci, an AI colleague that reads your data and handles the routine work.
See a working day with Synclo →Make-to-order manufacturers
Quotes, specifications, capacity and delivery dates that sales can trust.
Process and FMCG producers
Batches, raw materials, distributors and repeat orders.
Industrial and building products
Project quotes, dealers, contractors and technical submittals.
Packaging and printing
Fast quotes, job tracking and on-time delivery for every client.
Why growth stalls in manufacturing.
The same pressures appear in almost every manufacturing business we meet, in the boardroom and on the front line.
Every quote needs engineering, purchasing and planning input, so customers buy from whoever answers first.
Sales commits dates without seeing capacity, then production pays in overtime and penalties.
Raw material prices move but quotes use last quarter's cost.
“I wait three days for a cost from production before I can quote.”
“I find out about big orders when they land in the system.”
“We are busy, but margins keep falling.”
The same week, told twice.
First the way it usually goes, then with Synclo on the team. Same work, same people — watch the number.
How Synclo drives growth in manufacturing.
Five capabilities, each shown with an example of Alci at work.
Quote in hours with live costs
Quotes pull current material prices, routings and labour rates. Alci drafts the quote and flags anything below target margin.
In practiceAn RFQ for 40 t of film is quoted in 2 hours using today's resin price and actual line yield.
Capable-to-promise delivery dates
Before confirming, Alci checks capacity, material availability and open orders.
In practiceAlci offers week 46 instead of week 44 because line 2 is booked, avoiding a penalty clause.
Key account plans
See each distributor's and OEM's volumes, forecasts, claims and share of wallet.
In practiceAlci notices a distributor's orders dropped 30% while their market grew, and alerts the account manager.
Samples and trials that convert
Track every sample, trial result and approval step until the customer orders.
In practice14 samples shipped last quarter; Alci reminds sales to follow up on the 5 with no feedback after 3 weeks.
Contract pricing under control
Annual price agreements, index-linked pricing and rebates tracked automatically.
In practiceResin index rose 8%. Alci lists the 6 contracts with price adjustment clauses due this month.
Lines, orders and capacity on one screen
Sales sees capacity before promising a date. Planners see deals before they land.
Line 2 is over capacity in week 44. Alci offered week 46 for the enclosures order instead of risking the penalty clause.
A working day in manufacturing, with Synclo.
Five moments from an ordinary day. On the left, how it usually goes. On the right, the same moment with Synclo.
- 07:45Production planner
Rebuilds the schedule when an order changes.
Sees the impact of every new order on line capacity before it is accepted.
- 09:30Sales engineer
Waits two days for costing to price a quote.
Builds the quote from live material costs and margin rules in minutes.
- 11:45Procurement
Finds out about a material shortage on the line.
Approves purchase orders Alci raised from the confirmed order book.
- 14:30Customer service
Calls the floor to answer "where is my order?"
Answers instantly from the live order status, or lets Alci reply.
- 17:15Plant director
Gets yesterday's numbers tomorrow.
Asks Alci for today's output, scrap and on-time delivery by line.
Alci at work in manufacturing.
Pick a request, or type your own. This is what your team sees in Synclo.
Demo with sample company data.
Spend meetings on decisions, not status updates.
Alci prepares the numbers before anyone walks in, answers questions live, and turns decisions into tasks.
Before
- Alci compares the sales pipeline and forecast with capacity and material availability.
- Conflicts and big deals likely to close are highlighted.
During
- Teams agree priorities for contested capacity with margin shown for each choice.
- Purchase of long-lead materials approved live.
After
- Production plan and purchase orders update automatically.
- Sales gets confirmed dates to give customers.
Sales and production finally plan from the same numbers.
Also: Daily production stand-up
- Output against plan by line and shift
- Breakdowns and maintenance tickets from the night shift
- Material shortages that will stop a line today
- Orders at risk of missing their promised date
- 07:00Pack ready
Alci compares the sales pipeline and forecast with capacity and material availability.
- 09:05Question in the room
“Quote 40 tonnes of packaging film for Oman.”
- 09:06Alci answers
Quote ready: USD 2,400 per tonne at 23% margin, delivery week 45. Approve to send.
- 09:20Decisions captured
Production plan and purchase orders update automatically.
One platform for the entire manufacturing operation.
Sales is only the start. All eight modules and Alci share the same data, under one subscription.
- Raw materials and inventory across facilities
- Batch tracking, quality control and compliance
- Demand forecasting and procurement
- Production planning and work orders
- Machines and crews allocated by line
- Real-time production progress
- Cost by material, labour and production run
- Inventory valuation and vendor payments
- Margin by product and customer
- Quotes, orders and delivery coordination
- Order lifecycle from enquiry to fulfilment
- Key account and distributor management
- Shift planning and workforce scheduling
- Attendance, overtime and payroll
- Performance for production roles
- Production issues, breakdowns and incidents
- Maintenance requests with priority routing
- Escalations across shifts
- Answers questions from your live data
- Runs routine work by command
- Learns your patterns and handles repeat cases
Connects to the systems you already rely on.
Keep what works. Synclo connects to it, brings the data into one view, and lets Alci act on it.
Production
Design
Sales channels
Finance
Connections run through Synclo integrations, file imports and our open API. Tell us what you use and we will confirm exactly how each one connects before you start.
From your files to a running company, in days.
How a manufacturing business moves onto Synclo. No consultants, no long project, and nothing changes until you are ready.
- Day 1
Share what you have
Upload your existing spreadsheets or connect your current system: your product and price lists, bills of materials, open orders, stock and customer lists.
- Within days
Synclo sets itself up
Modules are arranged around your quotes, orders, bills of materials, capacity, purchasing and delivery. There is no consultant and no implementation project.
- First week
Your team starts working
People work in plain language and ask Alci when they are unsure, so there are no training courses to sit through.
- From then on
Alci takes on the routine
Alci learns how your team handles quote follow-ups, material reorders and delivery updates, and offers to take it over one approval at a time.
- All eight modules and Alci
- Set-up from your own files
- Connect SAP, Oracle or Dynamics first
- Updates and support included
- One price, agreed in writing
- A 14-day free trial, or a guided pilot
What our customers say.
Synclo centralized our inventory, compliance, and team workflows, improving visibility and day-to-day execution.
Aman AliManaging Partner, Phlox Pharma · Pakistan