DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT FOR MANUFACTURING
Boost efficiency.
Deliver faster.
Raise the bar in manufacturing: DocuWare’s scalable platform lets you digitise and automate your document-driven workflows - for smoother operations, faster turnaround, and lasting business success.
Be ready for tomorrow’s challenges with DocuWare
DocuWare empowers you to manage your processes efficiently, transparently, and securely by digitising and automating document workflows. Essential documents - like engineering drawings, inspection reports, material orders, and supplier record - are stored centrally and securely, and are always accessible when and where you need them: at your desk, on the go, or from your home office. Smart workflows manage tasks and approvals, help you meet deadlines, and reduce errors. Every claim or complaint is fully traceable. This means your teams work together efficiently, valuable data stays protected, and you can easily meet compliance requirements.
Faster manufacturing processes
Improved collaboration
Maximum security
Achieve peak performance in production with DocuWare: Results that deliver.
In addition to European-wide standardisation, we have achieved an even more important goal by using DocuWare: improving the quality of our work. Our employees can now devote themselves to more value-added tasks than filing and searching for documents. The understanding that change brought was also a positive thing, and the resulting greater acceptance of new projects, opens up great potential for optimisation for us as a group.
Stuart Maclean
Head of European Finance Shared Services
Brother International
Since documents are now available at the touch of a button, we have been able to significantly improve our customer service. DocuWare has become one of the most important tools for our daily work.
Anton Dreyer
Digital Operations Manager
Jura Products
DocuWare for manufacturing: Key use cases at a glance
Discover how DocuWare streamlines your production processes, boosts transparency, and enhances your company’s security. Instantly access all your records in a central, secure repository, eliminating scattered documents, manual indexing, and approval bottlenecks.
With smart features like seamless linking of production documents to invoicing, digital error and quality management, optimised order processing, centralised contract management, and comprehensive support for compliance, DocuWare delivers the ideal solution for the specific challenges in manufacturing.
Gain a decisive competitive edge in a dynamic market.
DocuWare enables you to manage your entire document-based process digitally - from inquiry and production to delivery and payment. Manufacturing orders, inspection reports, and shipping documents are automatically generated, routed, and archived.
Your benefits:
- Process orders faster: Automated creation and management of production documents speeds up manufacturing and delivery.
- Real-time data: Instant access to order and production information boosts transparency across departments and ensures seamless collaboration between production, logistics, and sales.
- Save time in the back office: Centrally archived documents and full-text search make follow-up fast and efficient - freeing up resources for high-value tasks.
From engineering drawings to inspection reports and delivery notes—DocuWare stores all documents from your manufacturing process centrally in a digital project file.
Your benefits:
- Flexible access: Authorised employees and partners can access documents anytime, anywhere. This speeds up order processing and response to inquiries.
- Trackable changes: Built-in version control provides complete visibility into who made changes and when.
- Seamless workflows: Digital workflows automatically route information to the right team members, ensuring fast resolution of questions and minimising errors.
Efficient invoice management is key to optimal control over your payment streams and accurate matching of orders and deliveries. With DocuWare, invoices and all related documents are automatically assigned to the relevant digital project file and securely archived for audit compliance.
Your benefits:
- Centralised storage: All billing-related documents are saved under a unique transaction number in the digital project file, making searches easy and providing complete transparency across your supply chain.
- Faster processing: Digital workflows and automated notifications accelerate review and approval steps, ensuring invoices are handled promptly and early payment discounts are maximized.
- Fewer errors: Digital archiving reduces mistakes, saves time, and gives you a real-time overview of outstanding items and payment flows.
In the event of a product liability claim, seamless documentation of all manufacturing and inspection processes is essential. With DocuWare, your team can digitally capture and securely archive every relevant document—from batch numbers and inspection reports to temperature curves from production equipment.
Your benefits:
- Comprehensive traceability: All manufacturing and inspection steps are centrally documented and available as evidence for liability cases.
- Immediate availability: Critical documents such as work instructions and inspection reports are automatically captured and instantly available - 24/7 at the click of a button.
- Maximum legal security: Tamper-proof, long-term archiving protects against data loss and minimizes liability risks.
Whether it’s supplier, master, maintenance, NDA, service, or employment agreements - DocuWare keeps your contracts safe and digitally accessible at all times.
Your benefits:
- Everything at your fingertips: All contract-related documents are stored centrally and can be accessed instantly for quick responses during negotiations or cross-departmental inquiries.
- Automated workflows: Get reliable reminders for important deadlines, manage approvals, and ensure no critical steps are missed in your contract processes.
- Minimise risk: Keep track of terms, dates, and content at all times to avoid penalties, supply shortages, or unnecessary costs.
Whether it’s Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), GDPR, HMRC requirements, or other key regulations: DocuWare helps your organisation stay compliant. With secure archiving and transparent tracking of all business transactions, you’re always prepared for audits and can minimise the risk of penalties or legal issues.
Your benefits:
- Legally compliant archiving: Business operations are securely stored and fully traceable.
- Fast access: Current and historical records, along with related documents, are effortlessly searchable with the integrated search function.
- Always audit-ready: DocuWare ensures complete documentation of all transactions and process steps.
Leverage AI to accelerate manufacturing processes and improve decision-making
DocuWare enables you to harness artificial intelligence securely and compliantly for automated document capture and data evaluation.
Whether for production order management or invoice processing, AI-powered workflows reduce administrative effort, accelerate processes, and free up valuable time so your team can focus on manufacturing excellence.
One unified platform to boost efficiency
DocuWare empowers manufacturers with a centralised platform that streamlines operations, supports faster and smarter decision-making, and simplifies regulatory compliance.
By digitising and centralising critical production information, DocuWare boosts transparency, speeds up workflows, and gives you greater control across every production stage and location. Available both in the cloud and on-premises, this scalable, secure solution is designed to meet the evolving demands of today’s manufacturing environment.
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Seamlessly integrate with HIS, ERP, and other core healthcare systems
Create fully digital, end-to-end processes across your entire healthcare IT landscape. DocuWare works smoothly with hospital information systems (HIS), practice management software, ERP platforms like Oracle NetSuite, SAP or Microsoft Dynamics, and accounting applications such as QuickBooks or Sage. DocuWare’s integration capabilities ensure smooth interoperability across systems, using HL7 standards to connect with PACS, RIS, and laboratory information systems for secure and efficient data exchange across all departments.

Seamless integration into your manufacturing IT
DocuWare integrates seamlessly with your existing IT landscape and connects easily to more than 1,000 applications - including ERP, MES, PPS, SCM, CAD/CAM, QMS, and accounting systems. Access documents archived in DocuWare directly from your preferred software - no need to switch programs.
DocuWare also connects effortlessly with essential hardware like scanners and multifunction devices, making it simple to convert paper documents into digital information and ensure smooth, efficient document management across your manufacturing operations.
DocuWare in action:
Success stories from the manufacturing industry
Many businesses in metalworking, machinery, automotive supply, and electronics already rely on DocuWare to simplify workflows, reduce manual effort, and create space for innovation.
Brother International
Brother International Europe is standardising incoming invoice processing with DocuWare Cloud across all countries. Starting in the UK, 16 country organisations with over 500 users are now integrated.
Swagelok Manchester
Swagelok is well-equipped to meet future business challenges, especially because the DocuWare platform is constantly being further developed and offers helpful tools and applications.
Smithfield Foods
At Smithfield Foods, their paper archive is now a thing of the past. This not only saves space, but has given employees back
more time to spend on their core tasks.
Jura Products
At Jura Products, Customer Service also benefits from the use of DMS. Here, all repair orders and analysis reports for their
high-end coffee machines are managed completely digitally.
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