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Welcome to our first monthly Bonx product roundup! Each month, we’ll recap the latest and greatest improvements across the platform so you can see what’s new and how quickly Bonx is evolving to support modern manufacturing operations.

In May, updates focused on making Bonx faster, more automated, and easier to operate at scale. The biggest moves were around material requirements planning (MRP), AI-assisted data entry, electronic data interchange (EDI) order automation, and quality workflows, alongside usability improvements across stock, orders, documents, and dashboards. Let’s dive in.

Bonx new feature highlights for May

Here are the three must-know updates for the month:

1. Automatic sales order creation via email

At Bonx, we’re always striving to make zero-click ERP the reality. Our vision is a world where your manufacturing ERP gets work done and gets out of your way. That’s why now you can configure a dedicated email address for receiving orders.

When your customers send an order to this address, Bonx will automatically create a new sales order, extract the customer's details, and add the requested articles as order lines. Orders go to manual review only if articles can't be identified.

Gmail order request for 40 wooden chairs shown next to a Bonx sales order automatically filled with the item, quantity, price, discount, VAT, and total. — Bonx turns incoming customer emails into structured sales orders, reducing manual entry from the first request.

2. Automatic B2B order creation with EDI

Continuing the theme of automated order creation, you can now connect Bonx with your business partners (e.g., customers, suppliers) via electronic data interchange (EDI).

This new integration automates the reception of sales orders by:

Intelligently identifying items (even those with variable EAN or GTIN codes)
Automatically creating missing items or transport modes
Importing as much information as possible, like expiration dates or comments, to reduce manual entry and errors

Speaking of integrations, we also made light updates to our Odoo and Pennylane integrations this month to better support customers using those technologies with Bonx. Learn more about the Bonx integration engine, including finance, accounting, CRM, commerce, 3PL, and hardware integrations.

3. More advanced quality control

Bonx is built to help you ensure product conformity and minimize defects. Now, quality control for measured values is much more powerful, allowing multiple sub-measures for a single control point (e.g., length, width, depth) as well as multiple criticality bands (critical, major, minor) each with its own min/max tolerance ranges. When performing a control, operators can log measurements for multiple samples in a single task with immediate visual feedback if a value is out of tolerance.

In addition to more robust quality control features for measured values, manufacturing orders now include an acceptance quality limit (AQL) summary in the defects tab, showing control plans, measurements, counts, and acceptance results.

Bonx quality control screen showing an AQL summary for a Wavy T-shirt, with inspection quantity and critical, major, and minor defect thresholds. — Bonx quality control gives teams a clear view of AQL inspections, defect severity, and acceptance criteria in one place.

Other Bonx updates in May

The team made lots of long-tail updates and improvements across other areas as well; here’s the non-exhaustive summary.

Planning & MRP

Planning updates this month focused on making MRP easier to understand and act on.

First, teams now get clearer visibility into demand and purchasing needs, with purchase suggestions that show more context about where each need comes from, such as a sales order or safety stock level.
Second, purchasing workflows offer a smoother experience overall. For example, users can add suggested lines to an existing purchase order, search suggestions more easily, and group duplicate receiving needs by article.

Together, these improvements help teams move from planning insight to purchasing action with less manual work.

AI & automation

Updates this month in AI, agents, and automation were centered around making workflows easier to trust for the humans in the loop. This includes:

More flexible and efficient agent workflows with auto-applied suggestions, the ability to quickly re-run successful analyses, and faster interface updates for process changes.
An improved agent timeline, with automatic refusal of stale pending suggestions and visible “auto accepted” status for changes applied automatically.

Inventory & stock

Inventory work is getting faster and easier to audit with small but impactful changes that make day-to-day work easier:

Teams can now search stock directly by lot number, customize the stock table columns they rely on most, and keep those preferences saved locally for smoother day-to-day use.
Stock task history is also clearer with the new ”reverted” status giving managers a cleaner audit trail when a completed task needs to be cancelled.

In a related purchasing workflow improvement, Bonx now automatically sets the main supplier when an article has only one supplier, reducing manual setup for teams managing item data.

Orders, BOMs, & documents

Order and document workflows got several practical improvements this month, especially for teams managing complex products and high-detail customer records. For example, sales orders now include a shipments tab, giving users one place to see every shipment linked to an order.

Bills of materials (BOMs) are also easier to manage at scale thanks to a few small but time-saving improvements, like:

When duplicating an article, Bonx now copies its BOM too, so teams do not have to rebuild the same structure manually.
BOMs can also be exported to CSV from the process and BOM tab, using the same format as BOM import, which makes bulk editing and re-importing much smoother.

Quality-of-life improvements

Beyond the bigger releases, May also included a wide range of everyday improvements shaped by real customer workflows. For example, teams can now save default filters in custom dashboard views and work faster with improvements to address search, large order pages, table layouts, dropdowns, and shipment/receiving labels.

These quality-of-life improvements are small individually, but they add up to a smoother system for the people using Bonx every day, including operators on the floor. Bottom line: we’re constantly listening to what manufacturers need, then turning that feedback into practical product improvements.

When was the last time you heard SAP say that?