Hyper-vertical, all the way down
Vertical software knows your industry. Hyper-vertical software knows your company. Otto already speaks frames, foam, fabric, and cut-and-sew, we teach it your order routing, reports, shortcuts.
Otto
by Plain James SoftwareHyper-vertical ERP for upholstered furniture manufacturers
Not an ERP for ‘manufacturing.’
An ERP for your plant.
Otto is hyper-vertical. Already customized for upholstered furniture, we go one step further and custom tailor to your business. Otto is built with success in mind. We understand two things make or break an ERP: careful migration and real training.
30 minutes on your real workflow, not a canned tour.
Built for
Upholstered furniture makers
Plants that outgrew a generic ERP
iSeries / AS400 migrations
Why Otto
Generic ERPs make you fit them. Otto is fitted to you.
A general-purpose ERP is a toolkit for every industry, an expert in none. Otto is narrow on purpose, and deep into your business. We deliver it with care, focusing on the two places other ERP projects often fail: the data and the people.
Your history comes with you
Decades of your items, customers and open orders move over cleanly, reconciled against your old system before anyone depends on the new one.
Training on your data, for your people
Role-by-role sessions for your floor and your front office, using your own orders and products. Your team is productive on day one, not day ninety.
The product
One system from your customers' orders to your loading dock.
Order entry as fast as you can type
On the desktop Otto is keyboard-first: tab, type, done. Your customer service department never has to reach for the mouse, just like on the green screens they already know.
- Fabric, accent, and custom orders built for upholstered furniture
- Pricing and availability right in the line
- Fast enough for your phone-in customers
- In a hurry? Smart processing can process your customers' PO doc directly
Easy on the shop floor
Phones, tablets, and scan guns access the same Otto system, made friendly for touch-screens. Your crew receives, moves, and ships from the floor, as easily as from a desk.
- Scan with your in-device camera or a scan gun
- Optimized per device: keyboard on desktop, touch on mobile
- Every scan reflected on your inventory and reports as it happens
A production schedule you can actually run the plant from
Line capacity, crew, work orders and truck loads on one board, with a scheduling engine that flags conflicts and shortages before they reach the floor.
- Man-hour capacity by line and day
- Work orders tied to sales orders and truck loads
- Conflicts, shortages and proposed moves surfaced for you
Behind it sit the reports your plant runs on: sales, shipping, inventory, production and billing, filtered and exported the way you want them.
Make it yours
As much customization as your business needs, and no more.
Every plant has the thing that makes it different. Otto gives you a ladder for it: start with simple settings and customize only as far as you need. No rung takes you away from a fully upgradable Otto stack.
Set it up your way
Custom fields on your items and customers, custom serial/order numbering formats, your labels and code tables. All settings, no code.
Describe your logic
Pricing and surcharge rules scoped to your customers and products, plus import and export mappings that reshape data the way your partners need it.
Connect your tools
Your own apps and dealer portals talk to Otto through a secure API. Stay in control of your bespoke business logic, while maintaining data consistency right inside Otto.
Run your own instance
When your needs go deeper, Otto runs as your own dedicated deployment, with extensions built just for you and kept apart from everyone else.
Migrating from iSeries?
Leave the green screen, but keep your experience
If you are running on an iSeries (AS/400), your system holds years of hard-won business rules. We read them, preserve what matters and retire what doesn't.
- DiscoverWe study your current system, files and the quirks your team works around.
- Map & migrateRepeated trial loads, reconciled line by line until the numbers tie out.
- TrainHands-on, role-based sessions using your own data.
- Go live, togetherWe stay close through cutover and the weeks after.
About
A small shop, on purpose.
Plain James Software is a small, agile shop, building software for businesses like yours. When you call, you reach the people who wrote the code. We can change Otto for your business in days, not quarters.
No account-manager hand-offs, no giant implementation partner, no “that's not on our roadmap.”
If you manufacture furniture, your feature is within our scope!
Book a demo
See Otto on your kind of work.
Tell us a little about your plant. We'll reply within one business day to set up 30 minutes, tailored to how you actually build and ship.