FlowForge: Adaptive Workflow Orchestrator for ERP-Driven Production
9/10
Demand Score
Each delayed approval or mis-sequenced job stalls production lines; orchestrating the ‘human-in-the-loop’ now recovers capacity immediately.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$3k-20k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
12 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Hard
The Problem
FlowForge overlays your ERP/MES with real-time process mining, constraint-based scheduling, and micro-UI sidecars that remove bottlenecks in approvals, kitting, and dispatch. It ingests ERP events (WO
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 3 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- Celonis (process mining)
- SAP Signavio
- Kinaxis (planning)
- ERP native workflow builders
Must-Have Features for MVP
Real-time process mining with bottleneck detection
Constraint-based scheduler using OR-Tools
Micro-UI sidecars injected into ERP screens
Slack/Teams approval and exception handling bots
What-if simulation with safe write-back to ERP
KPI cockpit: queue time, takt adherence, promise-date risk
Playbooks for common exceptions (material short, QC fail, machine down)
A/B testing of workflow changes with guardrails
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Accessing detailed ERP event logs reliably
- Change control for automated re-sequencing
- Union/compliance rules for shopfloor tasking
- Integration test coverage to prevent bad write-backs
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- Cuts average wait states in the first month
- Raises on-time completion and OEE measurably
- Adopted by planners and supervisors without ERP rewiring
- Safe, auditable changes with rollback
- Demonstrates payback via recovered throughput and fewer expedites
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This hard-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.