The report is rebuilt every week. The margin shows up at month-end.
What changes on the floor
Six versions of the same problem, and what each one looks like with Fact-Trak
The Monday rebuild
Someone spends Monday morning rebuilding last week's report by hand.
Monday's numbers are already on a screen
Dashboards refresh from your SyteLine data, so nobody rebuilds the report.
Whose numbers are right?
Three departments, three spreadsheets, three answers.
One definition, shared
Each measure has a single shared definition, so the meeting starts from the same number.
Every report is an IT ticket
A new view waits in the IT queue, so people build shadow spreadsheets instead.
A new view without a ticket
Role-based views are built by the people who need them, with role-based security throughout.
Variances nobody can trace
Tying a variance back to the transactions behind it takes days of exports.
Summary to transaction in a few clicks
Drill from a number into the records behind it, rather than exporting and rebuilding a pivot.
The job lost money. Where?
A job closes over budget and nobody can show why.
The standard, the actual and the gap
Job cost breaks down to labor, material and scrap, by job, item and customer.
Margin found at month-end
Finance learns how a job really did after close, when it is too late to act.
Answered while the job is open
With labor recorded at the operation by Shop-Trak, actuals are current the same day.
"We quoted 30% margin and delivered 28. Where did the two points go?"
The question every controller asks. Fact-Trak is where the two points get an address instead of an argument.Features
What Fact-Trak does
Dashboards and reporting
- Dashboards that refresh from your SyteLine data
- Production, inventory, sales and delivery views
- Drill from a summary into the transactions behind it
Job cost and variance
- The standard, the actual and the gap on each job
- Drill from job margin to labor, material and scrap
- Financial and cost reporting by job, item and customer
Trusting the numbers
- One shared definition per measure
- Role-based security throughout
- Analysis opens from the SyteLine record you are looking at
Ask in plain language
- Plain-language query is planned for 2027
- Runs on the AI engine you sanction, under your governance
Before you start
What Fact-Trak needs
- Full Fact-Trak is part of the Pro tier.
- On Infor CloudSuite Industrial (SyteLine), Fact-Trak requires Infor streaming pipelines.
- Moving to Infor's multi-tenant cloud? Fact-Trak and the platform move with you. Your account team will confirm what your version supports.
- On premises, Fact-Trak needs a SQL Server analysis instance.
On the platform
Fact-Trak on the Lake MES Platform
Shop-Trak, Doc-Trak and Fact-Trak already work on your SyteLine data today. The first direct product-to-product integration, Shop-Trak and Machine-Trak, is expected by the end of 2026, with more through 2027.
Shop-Trak
Labor, quantities and scrap recorded at the operation, so the job's actuals are current.
Doc-Trak
Paperwork built from SyteLine, so the record behind each number is complete.
Machine-Trak
Run, idle and down on any asset today. Machine time reaches the job through the Shop-Trak link, expected by the end of 2026.
Quality-Trak
Nonconformance runs inside SyteLine. Cost of quality on the Fact-Trak job view follows.
Vantage
Job 360 and margin by job on one role-based command center.
You are buying one-off solutions and becoming a systems integrator yourself to create what we give you off the shelf.
How you buy it
Capacity scales, capability activates.
The Lake MES Platform is available now and grows with every release.
One subscription, one renewal
You buy the Lake MES Platform, not a single product. Every tier is entitled to the products in it, with starter quantities included, and you decide what to install and when. One agreement covers all of it.
Capacity scales, capability activates
Add devices, users or machines as you grow. The next capability starts as an activation, not a new vendor and a new project.
Already a Lake customer
Current Lake customers receive loyalty pricing on the platform. Each customer moves at its renewal, starting January 1, 2027, and can move sooner through December 31, 2026. Your account team sizes the platform with you and confirms the numbers in a written quote.
Questions
Questions about Fact-Trak
Is Fact-Trak a separate BI project?
No. Fact-Trak reads your SyteLine data with shared definitions, so there is no separate warehouse to design first.
Which tier includes Fact-Trak?
Full Fact-Trak is part of the Pro tier.
Does Fact-Trak work on CloudSuite Industrial?
Yes. On CloudSuite Industrial it requires Infor streaming pipelines. Your account team confirms what your version supports.
SyteLine is your system of record. The Lake MES Platform is your system of execution.
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Shop-Trak, Doc-Trak, Fact-Trak, Machine-Trak, Quality-Trak, Vantage and the Lake MES Platform are trademarks of The Lake Companies, LLC. Infor, SyteLine and CloudSuite Industrial are trademarks of Infor. Capability marked expected, planned or in development is not yet released and is subject to change.