Aligni

Aligni is a cloud application that combines product lifecycle management, inventory planning and manufacturing management. It is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses that design and build hardware and need one place to track the parts they buy and the products they make.

What Aligni offers

• Bill of materials management — multi-level BOMs with revision control and where-used visibility for components.
• Engineering change management — change requests and change orders discussed and recorded in the tool rather than by email.
• Inventory planning — an outlook that combines stock on hand, sales forecasts, orders and lead times, with safety stock levels set per warehouse.
• Build management — scheduling of parts and materials around changing customer demand, including alternate components.
• Collaboration with suppliers — shared data for procurement and vendor communication.

Who it works with

The site says it is built for growing small and mid-sized manufacturers. Its older material mentions support for regulatory tracking such as RoHS and REACH and for quality systems like ISO9001.

Key facts

• Deployment: cloud-based
• Compliance support: RoHS, REACH and ISO9001 change-management processes
• Planning tools: safety stock manager and a lead-time feature the vendor calls TimeWarp