Plastics & Composites Edition
ERP Built for
Plastics & Composites Businesses
Material grade and lot traceability, tooling and mould lifecycle management, regrind tracking, and sustainability reporting, NexWave gives plastics and composites manufacturers a connected platform from raw polymer to finished part.
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Industry Challenges
The real cost of the wrong system for plastics & composites
The plastics & composites sector has complexity that generic ERP simply wasn't built for. Here's where it hurts most, and how it affects your bottom line.
Material Grade, Colour & Lot Traceability
Polymer grades, colour masterbatches, and additives come in specific lots with certification data that must be traceable to the finished component. Without lot-level traceability, a materials recall or customer quality investigation becomes a manual forensic exercise.
Tooling & Mould Lifecycle Management
Injection moulds have shot-count service intervals and finite lifetimes. Without a tooling register that tracks shots-to-date, maintenance history, and estimated remaining life, mould failures cause unplanned production stoppages with no warning.
Regrind & Recycled Material Tracking
Regrind material must be tracked as a separate inventory category with defined blend ratios to virgin material. Without a system that manages regrind balance by polymer type, quality consistency is difficult to guarantee and sustainability claims are unsubstantiated.
Sustainability & Carbon Reporting Requirements
Customers and regulators increasingly require data on recycled content percentage, carbon footprint per kilogram of finished goods, and supplier sustainability credentials. Assembling this data from disparate records is time-consuming and error-prone.
Customer-Owned Tooling Accountability
Many moulders hold tooling owned by their customers. Without a clear register showing ownership, location, condition, and insurance status of every customer-owned tool, disputes over tooling responsibility and condition are inevitable.
Short vs Long Run Costing Accuracy
A 50-shot prototype run and a 500,000-shot production run have fundamentally different cost structures, setup amortisation, cycle time efficiency, and material waste rates all vary significantly. Pricing short runs from long-run cost models erodes margin on development work.
Implementation
Live in 8–12 weeks
Our proven implementation methodology has delivered a 99% go-live success rate. We handle the complexity so you can focus on running your business.
Discovery & Planning
Weeks 1–2, Requirements workshops across your key teams. Process mapping, data audit, and configuration blueprint signed off before build begins.
Core Configuration
Weeks 3–4, System configured to your business rules, product structures, and workflows. Historical data migrated and validated.
Integrations & Training
Weeks 5–6, Shopify, Xero, and other integrations activated. Role-based training delivered across all key user groups.
Testing & Go-Live
Weeks 7–8, Full UAT, parallel running, and hypercare support through your first live operating cycle. We stay close until your team is confident.
Platform Modules
Everything your plastics & composites business needs, fully connected
NexWave is configured for the specific demands of plastics & composites, with the workflows, compliance tools, and integrations your team needs built in from day one.
Stock Control & Material Lot Traceability
Polymer, masterbatch, and additive inventory managed by grade, lot, and certification. Full forward and backward traceability from supplier delivery note to finished component and customer delivery.
Manufacturing & Moulding Jobs
Works orders per production run with material consumption against lot, cycle time recording, shot count capture, and actual vs standard cycle time variance analysis.
Tooling & Mould Management
Full mould register with shot count tracking, maintenance interval alerts, service history, customer ownership records, and mould condition notes, keeping your tooling room under control.
Regrind & Recycled Material Management
Regrind generation and balance by polymer type, defined blend ratios for reuse, recycled content percentage calculation per finished goods batch, and sustainability data export.
Quality & First-Article Inspection
First-off and first-article inspection workflows with dimensional record capture, colour measurement, material certification verification, and customer approval sign-off.
Purchasing & Supplier Certification
Purchase orders with material grade and lot requirements, supplier sustainability certification tracking, and non-conformance records linked back to specific material lots.
Accounting & Run Costing
Job-level costing with setup amortisation across run quantity, material consumption at actual lot cost, and regrind credit. Xero integration and margin reporting by customer and product family.
Analytics & Sustainability Reporting
OEE per machine and mould, first-shot acceptance rates, recycled content trending, carbon intensity per kg of output, and customer-facing sustainability report generation.
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Sales & fulfilment
Sales order to delivery
Pick list and delivery note
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Purchasing
Purchase order to general ledger
PO, receipt, invoice, and GL
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Manufacturing
Manufacturing works order
Plan, WO, job card, and receipt
Walk through production plan from sales orders, work order, material transfer, job card, and finished goods in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Accounting
Accounting & financial reports
P&L, balance sheet, and dashboard
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CRM
CRM pipeline
Lead to sales order
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Analytics
Business intelligence
Dashboards and KPIs
Walk through selling KPIs, dashboard charts, and a customisable Sales Order Analysis report in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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From NZ$415/month · 8–12 week implementation · 99% go-live success rate · No hidden fees
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