Dispatching provides comprehensive visibility into all manufacturing activities

Manufacturo’s Dispatching is a centralized shop floor dispatching software that visualizes all operations across your work orders. It tells your team what to work on next, what's blocked and why, so the idle time is minimized.

Manufacturing dispatching board UI showing a table of production orders with columns for priority, order number, batch number, status, operation description, order type, serial, and lot. A side panel displays trace details, notes, and operation details for a selected order.

A laptop screen displays the Manufacturo Dispatching Notebook UI, showing a list of operations with details like item number, operation description, and status in a manufacturing execution system.

Why dispatching matters

On most shop floors, workers spend part of their day figuring out what to work on next. Engineers react to whoever shouts loudest, not to what's actually blocking production. Planners make priority calls that take hours to reach the floor. By the time the right person is working on the right thing, time has already been lost.

In complex manufacturing, one of the biggest sources of waste is the time your team spends waiting for their next task. Dispatching eliminates that waste by giving every person on the shop floor a prioritized and real-time view of their work.
Engineering teams tend to prioritize tasks that are escalated most loudly, instead of taking care of what is truly blocking the manufacturing process. Dispatching changes that, by showing engineers which of their pending actions are holding up active work orders, so the right things get unblocked first.

Dispatching is available as a core application within Manufacturo

Key Capabilities

Custom boards

Every team gets a digital board built around their work, customized to a person, a role, a work center, or a production line. Boards can be organized by product, program, or customer, and the WIP status stays current through barcode integration. They refresh in real time, so what you see is always up to date.

Blockers

A blocker is a signal that an operation can't proceed. Define custom types in the Manufacturo’s Integrator, or push blockers from third-party systems via public API, so your team can discover and resolve problems before they cause delays.

Priorities engine

Dispatching calculates the priority of each work order and operation, automatically, based on scheduled start and completion dates, including MRP want dates, giving every board a single source of truth.

Custom digital boards for the entire shop floor

Whether you're assembling complex systems or printing precision parts, the Dispatching App supports every stakeholder on the floor:

Technicians and operators

Always know the next highest-priority task. No supervisor needed to assign work.

Use Case: The next ready job is already at the top of technician's board; they open it in Shopfloor Operations to clock in.

Manufacturing and quality engineers

See which pending actions are blocking active production and prioritize accordingly.

Use Case: An operation blocked by a nonconformance instantly appears on QE's board and never becomes a missed delivery.

Planners

Real-time view across work centers and lines.

Use Case: Run multiple boards simultaneously, one per work center plus a roll-up view, to track flow and risk across the entire operation.

Schedulers

Push a rush order to the front.

Use Case: A customer's escalation comes in, and the scheduler overrides orders priority which is instantly reflected on every board site wide.

Management and executives

Read operational health at a glance.

Use case: A site-wide roll-up board shows in real time what's ready, what's blocked, and where delivery is at risk.

Material Handlers

Delivering the part that unblocks the most.

Use case: An expediter has more pull requests than time. Their board shows, in real time, which high-priority job is short only a few kitted components and where those parts are.