Bills of Materials
Define what goes into a product, what comes out and the quantities or formulas that drive material use.
Manufacturing software
Manufacturing software that starts with the customer order.
Tall Emu is Australian manufacturing software for product businesses using MYOB or Xero. Connect sales with BOMs, Work Orders, Production Steps, purchasing, stock and delivery, so production works from the same customer promise sales made.
Does Tall Emu include a real manufacturing system?
Yes. Tall Emu includes Bills of Materials, Work Orders and Production Steps - not just stock tracking. Production works from the same customer order, purchasing and stock as the rest of the system.
Work Orders
Turn actual demand into production work, with the customer, Sales Order, inputs, outputs and progress kept together.
Production Steps
Define the work needed to make the product, the order it happens in and the people or resources that can perform it.
Production Calculator
Test quantities, material use and cost before committing the work.
Make-to-order starts at the sale.
Custom manufacturing usually goes wrong before the factory sees it. The salesperson has the dimensions, colours, sizes, artwork or special instructions - then production gets a spreadsheet or an email.
Tall Emu can keep those customer-specific requirements on the order. We’re extending that model with stronger made-to-order capture, including quantity matrices, personalisation and artwork or file requirements that can travel with the production specification.
Keep the customer order, purchasing and production tied together.
A Sales Order can show the Purchase Orders and Work Orders created to fulfil it. Open the production or purchasing record and you can see which customer demand it supports. Sales can answer “where is it?” without matching records by hand.
More powerful manufacturing planning and control
Tall Emu builds on its existing Bills of Materials and Work Order capabilities with an intuitive BOM builder, reusable Production Steps, richer production context and visual planning tools.
- Carry configured requirements, dimensions, files and artwork from the order into production.
- See unscheduled work and plan Production Steps against people, machines or workstations.
- Split work where more than one resource can help, while keeping the total job visible.
- Show capacity, due-date, material and dependency warnings before they become surprises.
- Move toward tablet and shop-floor execution with actual time, quantity and material feedback.
- Support progressive production so finished quantities can move toward packing and shipment as they become available.
Built for manufacturers that are too complicated for simple assembly software.
Tall Emu is a strong fit for make-to-order, configure-to-order, light make-to-stock, assembly, batch work, print and textile, apparel, custom fabrication and similar product businesses that still want MYOB or Xero to remain their accounts.
Manufacturing questions
Does Tall Emu handle bills of materials and work orders?
Yes. Bills of Materials define what goes into a product, what comes out and the quantities or formulas that drive material use. Work Orders turn actual demand into production work, with the customer, Sales Order, inputs, outputs and progress kept together.
Can Tall Emu manage make-to-order production?
Yes. Make-to-order starts at the sale: the customer order flows straight into production, so what gets made matches what was actually sold, and purchasing and stock stay tied to the same order.
Can I check material use and cost before committing production?
Yes. The Production Calculator lets you test quantities, material use and cost before committing the work, so pricing and purchasing decisions happen before production starts.
Do I need a full ERP to run manufacturing?
For many Australian product businesses, no. Tall Emu covers the core manufacturing workflow - BOMs, Work Orders, Production Steps, purchasing and stock - connected to MYOB or Xero for accounting, without an ERP implementation project.
Australian company. Australian team. Local support.
Tall Emu is built and supported in Australia, with help available from 9am to 5pm Sydney time.
MYOB or Xero stays as your accounts. Tall Emu handles the customer, sale and operational work around it.
See how this fits your business.
Show us how you work today and where the process gets messy. You’ll speak with a real person from our Australian team.