Order to production
Sales confirms what the factory can't make, because the quote, the BOM and the schedule live in three unconnected places. Changes arrive faster than the plan can absorb them.
One backbone connecting CRM, ERP/MES and the schedule, usually Salesforce as the commercial spine with Sales Cloud, tied to your production systems. An AI agent checks material availability and realistic capacity while the quote is being written, not after it's been promised.
Quotes go out in hours with dates the factory can honour. Order changes propagate to the plan automatically instead of by corridor. The planner stops being a single point of failure.