Fulcrum

Fulcrum is a cloud-native manufacturing platform, sometimes described as ERP or MRP, built for small and mid-sized manufacturers and job shops that have outgrown spreadsheets and paper travelers but find legacy manufacturing software slow and dated. It runs the core workflow of a shop end to end: quoting and estimating, sales orders, bills of materials and routing, purchasing and inventory, job scheduling and shop-floor tracking, quality control, shipping and receiving, and financials, with real-time data flowing between them. A distinguishing feature is its automatic scheduling engine, which continuously reads production data and recalculates an optimized schedule in seconds as jobs, priorities, and capacity change, rather than requiring a planner to manually maintain a Gantt chart. Fulcrum is designed to be usable on the shop floor with a clean interface, supports unlimited users with role-based permissions, and offers a large library of integrations with tools like QuickBooks, Shopify, and ShipStation. It is aimed at manufacturers doing make-to-order and mixed-mode production who want one modern system instead of several disconnected tools. Fulcrum is sold as a paid subscription, with pricing based on the shop's revenue, the number of integrations, and their complexity, plus implementation support.