Operational workflows living outside core systems
Safety incidents, shift handovers, permits, and engineering changes happen every day, but much of that work never makes it into the systems teams rely on.
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Your core systems manage transactions well, but they weren't built for the workflows around them. That gap is where inefficiency lives.
Improvement requests stuck behind IT priorities
The need for a new form or workflow is immediate—the path to getting it built often is not.
Critical events slipping through the cracks
Production issues, quality concerns, and downtime events unfold in real time, yet the information needed to act remains fragmented.
Shadow applications spreading across the business
Teams build their own solutions to keep work moving, creating islands of data and processes that are difficult to govern and scale.
System of record
Your core systems
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SAP, Oracle, Infor or NetSuite — the authoritative store for your master data, transactions and business records.
2-way sync
System of engagement
The floor-facing layer
Mobile data capture, guided workflows & approvals and live dashboards — built for the people doing the work.
One platform that extends every operation you run
Zoho Creator brings every manufacturing operation onto a single, connected platform, so the data from production informs procurement, quality feeds into planning, and every team sees the same picture.
Production and shop floor
Capture everything that happens on the line and make it immediately visible to the people who need to act on it.
Supply chain and logistics
Handle procurement workflows before they reach your core system, so everything that goes in is already validated and approved.
Quality, safety, and compliance
Give every team a consistent, structured way to capture, track, and close quality and safety events across the operation.
Built for every manufacturing role
From the shop floor to the boardroom, every team gets tools built for how they actually work.
Operations director
Respond to workflow changes and demand shifts without raising IT requests or waiting on vendor timelines — new apps are live by next shift, not next quarter.
IT and digital transformation manager
Bring every Excel macro, plant-level script, and shadow app under one governed platform with SSO, RBAC, and full audit trails.
Plant manager
Give every team a structured way to record handovers, near-misses, and line stops — signed off and visible to the next shift before they clock in.
Supply chain manager
Validate purchase requests, gate passes, and vendor documents before they reach any downstream system.
Extend your core systems with custom manufacturing apps
Each app plugs in beside it and takes on exactly what it was built to hand off.
- Safety & near-miss
- Budget & requisition
- Shift handover
- Permits & gate passes
- Engineering change
- Vendor onboarding
- Quality NCR & CAPA
- Maintenance
Capture, track, and close every safety event from the moment it occurs, with a full audit trail from source to resolution.
Mobile capture with photo and video
5-whys and CAPA workflow with escalations
Real-time safety dashboard
Manage the full PR process in one place, and push approved requests straight to your core system without manual re-entry.
Catalog and free-text requisitions
Budget validation and approval routing
Maker-checker approval flow
Give every incoming shift a complete, structured record of exactly where the previous shift left off.
Templated by line, area, or department
Photo and voice-note attachments
Signed, timestamped audit trail
Issue, track, and close permits and gate passes digitally, with every approval and expiry logged automatically.
Hazard checklists and approver routing
QR codes for vehicles, visitors, and contractors
Auto-expiry and escalation alerts
Move engineering changes out of shared drives and email threads into structured, trackable approval workflows.
Drawings and BOMs attached to every request
Multi-stage cross-functional approval
Impact assessment on cost, quality, lead time
Collect documents, run compliance checks, and create the vendor master through a self-service portal — no manual follow-up.
Vendor portal with document upload
Performance scoring on quality and delivery
Maker-checker and procurement sign-off
Raise non-conformances at the point of inspection, and track every one through to verified, documented closure.
Mobile NCR capture with severity
Containment, disposition, and CAPA workflow
Verification-of-effectiveness reminders
Log breakdowns from the line, assign them to technicians, and feed resolution data back into your maintenance system.
One-tap breakdown capture from any machine
Technician app with parts and time logging
Root-cause coding for reliability data
Built to support your stack, not replace it
Creator plugs into the systems and controls you already trust — and gives IT the guardrails to keep it that way.
Prebuilt connectors and open REST APIs connect Creator to your existing platforms without any middleware to license or maintain.
Authenticate every user through your existing identity provider, with role-based access carried across every app you build.
Encryption, audit trails, and centralised administration keep every plant-level app inside the controls IT already enforces.
Run in the cloud or in your own data centre, with the same platform capabilities and the same governance model.
One app definition reaches every surface your teams work on, including shared kiosks and handheld scanners, even offline.
Describe the process you need and get a working app structure to refine, so teams ship in days instead of quarters.
Turn the operational data you capture into forecasts and anomaly alerts that reach the right team before an issue escalates.
IT sets the standards, environments, and release process once — operations teams build inside them without waiting in a queue.
Connect to the systems you already run
Zoho Creator seamlessly integrates with your existing systems. Extended apps push and pull data directly from your core platforms, keeping data consistent across every process without disrupting the operations you depend on.
ERP and core business systems
Sync master data, transactions, and approvals two ways, with no middleware required.
MES, production planning, and shop floor systems
Stream machine and production data in, and write operator-confirmed events back to the source system.
QMS, CMMS, and compliance platforms
Push incidents, NCRs, and audit findings in, and pull compliance standards and limits back into your apps.
HR, payroll, and workforce platforms
Ensure rosters, attendance, contractor records, and training data flow automatically into the apps that depend on them.
Built for your specific sector
Every manufacturing industry has different compliance requirements, workflows, and data needs. Zoho Creator adapts to all of them.
Automotive
Construction
Electronics
Textiles
Pharmaceutical
Energy and Gas
What manufacturers have achieved
500%
Productivity improvement
There is no way you are sending the wrong material to customers, which is a real problem in most organizations in the extrusion industry. We addressed this with Zoho Creator. It is a game changer.
Phani Varma
Executive Director, Ralpro
90%
Reduction in turnaround time
"I've worked in enterprise software consulting for two decades, where implementations can take months or even years. With Zoho Creator, I was able to deploy custom apps in a week."
Anjaiah Surgi
CIO, Somany Impresa Group
£175k
Saved over three years
Zoho Creator has saved us more than £175k over three years. I'm trying to think of a task that we could not overcome using Zoho Creator. It's fantastic.
Reg Horman
Systems and IT Director, Pexion
90%
Cost reduction in enterprise software
Whenever we identify a new business process, we can have it up and running within a week. Zoho Creator significantly accelerates project rollouts compared to traditional software implementations.
Varun Jain
Director, Carrier Wheels
1 week
From idea to live process
After we implemented Zoho Creator, the communication transparency between the two plants and our corporate office is phenomenal, and the processes are much more streamlined.
Pete Krona
Plant Manager, SmartLam
Transform your manufacturing with Zoho Creator
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REQUEST A DEMOFrequently Asked Questions
Creator builds workflow apps that support core systems and syncs approved data back, so nothing in your existing stack needs to change. Your systems remain the source of records.
Workflow-heavy, role-specific, and frequently changing processes belong in Creator, like shift handovers, permits to work, NCRs, and vendor onboarding. Master data, financial records, and transactional records of truth stay where they are, in your core platforms.
Not at all. Creator brings unmanaged shadow apps under one governed platform. Every app runs under IT-controlled SSO, role-based permissions, and full audit logs, so visibility and control both improve.
Through prebuilt connectors for 100+ platforms and open REST APIs and webhooks for everything else. There's no middleware to purchase or maintain.
Yes. Multi-plant deployments, regional data residency, complex approval hierarchies, and full audit trails are all supported. Private cloud and on-prem options are available for environments with strict compliance requirements.
Creator runs on Zoho Cloud, GCP, Azure, and on-premise servers. Cloud options suit teams rolling out quickly across sites with minimal infrastructure overhead. On-premise suits regulated environments where data can't leave your own servers.
Yes. Every app is designed for the floor, not the desk. A near-miss report is three taps. A breakdown raise is one button. A shift handover is a guided form. All apps are mobile-first with offline capability built in.