mrp/ROADMAP.md

# Roadmap

## Product direction

MRP Codex is being built as a streamlined, modular manufacturing resource planning platform with strong branding controls, fast operational workflows, and a single-container deployment model that is simple to back up and upgrade.

## Current status

### Completed: Foundation release

- Monorepo-style workspace with `client`, `server`, and `shared`
- React + Vite + Tailwind frontend shell
- Express + TypeScript backend shell
- Prisma + SQLite schema foundation with committed initial migration
- Local authentication with JWT-based session flow
- RBAC permission model and protected routes
- Central Company Settings with runtime branding controls
- Light and dark mode theme system
- Local file attachment storage under `/app/data/uploads`
- Puppeteer PDF service foundation with branded company-profile preview
- CRM reference entities for customers and vendors
- CRM customer and vendor create/edit/detail workflows
- CRM search, filters, and persisted status tagging
- CRM contact-history timeline with authored notes, calls, emails, and meetings
- CRM shared file attachments on customer and vendor records, including delete support
- CRM reseller hierarchy, parent-child customer structure, and reseller discount support
- CRM multi-contact records, commercial terms, lifecycle stages, operational flags, and activity rollups
- Inventory item master, BOM, warehouse, and stock-location foundation
- Inventory transactions, on-hand tracking, and item attachments
- Sales quotes and sales orders with commercial totals logic
- Purchase orders with vendor lookup, item lines, totals, and quick status actions
- Purchase-order line selection restricted to inventory items flagged as purchasable
- Shipping shipment records linked to sales orders
- Packing-slip PDF rendering for shipments
- SKU-searchable BOM component selection for inventory-scale datasets
- Theme persistence fixes and denser responsive workspace layouts
- Full-site density normalization pass across active CRM, inventory, settings, dashboard, and login screens
- SVAR Gantt integration wrapper with demo planning data
- Multi-stage Docker packaging and migration-aware entrypoint
- Docker image validated locally with successful app startup and login flow
- Core project documentation in `README.md`, `INSTRUCTIONS.md`, and `STRUCTURE.md`

### Current known gaps in the foundation

- Prisma migration execution is committed and documented, but local Windows Node 24 schema-engine behavior remains inconsistent; use Node 22 or Docker for migration execution
- The frontend bundle is functional but should be code-split later, especially around the gantt module
- CRM reporting is now functional, but broader account-role depth and downstream document rollups can still evolve later
- The current sales/purchasing/shipping foundation still does not include approvals, revisions, receiving flow, shipment labels, or broader branded transactional PDF coverage beyond packing slips
- The dashboard is now live-data driven, but still needs richer KPI widgets, alerts, recent-activity queues, and exception reporting as more transactional depth is added

## Dashboard Plan

- Keep `Dashboard` as the primary landing surface for operators
- Expand it by modular panels rather than redesigning it for each new feature phase
- Prefer metric cards, exception queues, action shortcuts, and status summaries over static descriptive content
- Add future widgets for purchasing, shipping exceptions, inventory shortages, manufacturing load, and audit/system health
- Treat dashboard modules as upgradeable blocks that can be reordered or expanded without disturbing the shell

## Planned feature phases

### Phase 1: CRM and master data hardening

- Better seed/bootstrap strategy for non-development environments
- Additional CRM account-role depth if later sales/purchasing workflows need it
- More derived CRM rollups once quotes, orders, and purchasing documents exist

QOL subfeatures:

- Saved CRM filters and quick views
- Better hierarchy navigation between reseller parents and child accounts
- One-click contact actions for email and phone workflows
- Duplicate-account detection and merge workflow
- Cleaner attachment previews and richer record timelines
- More compact table controls for heavy CRM data-entry users

### Phase 2: Inventory and manufacturing core

- Item master and SKU structure
- Warehouse and stock location modeling
- Inventory transactions and on-hand tracking
- Bills of materials and custom assemblies
- Project records tied to manufacturing work
- File attachments for BOM drawings and manufacturing support docs

QOL subfeatures:

- Stock transfers between warehouses and locations
- Reservation and allocation visibility against demand
- Faster SKU search and keyboard-heavy item/BOM entry flows
- Better warehouse dashboards for on-hand, shortages, and recent movement
- BOM revision support and clearer where-used visibility
- Bulk item import/export and mass-update utilities

### Phase 3: Sales and purchasing documents

- Quotes, sales orders, and purchase orders
- Reusable line-item and totals model
- Document states, approvals, and revision history
- Branded PDF templates rendered through Puppeteer
- Attachments for vendor invoices and supporting documents

QOL subfeatures:

- Line duplication, drag ordering, and keyboard-first line editing
- Saved customer defaults for tax, freight, and commercial terms
- Inline stock visibility while building quotes and orders
- Restrict purchase-order item entry to purchasable inventory only
- Richer dashboard widgets for recent quotes, open orders, purchasing queues, and shipping exceptions
- Better totals breakdown visibility on list pages and detail pages
- Revision comparison view for changed customer-facing documents
- Faster document cloning and quote-to-order style conversions across document types

### Phase 4: Shipping and logistics

- Shipment records linked to sales orders
- Bills of lading, packing slips, and shipping BOM PDFs
- Carrier, package, and tracking data
- Outbound shipment status workflow
- Scanned logistics-document attachment handling

QOL subfeatures:

- Shipment labels and printer-friendly document actions
- Partial shipment workflow and split-shipment visibility
- Better tracking-link UX and carrier-specific shortcuts
- Packing verification and ship-confirm checkpoints
- Shipment search by order, tracking, customer, and carrier from one screen
- Reprint and history actions for generated logistics PDFs

### Phase 5: Manufacturing planning and scheduling

- Live project-backed SVAR gantt timelines
- Task dependencies, milestones, and progress updates
- Manufacturing calendar views and bottleneck visibility
- Labor and machine scheduling support
- Theme-compliant gantt customization for light/dark mode

QOL subfeatures:

- Collapsible schedule groupings and saved planner views
- Drag-and-drop rescheduling improvements
- Critical-path and overdue highlighting
- Capacity warnings for overloaded work centers
- Better mobile and tablet behavior for shop-floor lookups
- Faster filtering by project, customer, work center, and status

### Phase 6: Security, audit, and operations maturity

- Expanded role management UI
- Permission assignment administration
- Audit trail coverage across critical records
- Backup/restore workflow documentation and scripts
- Health checks, startup diagnostics, and production readiness cleanup

QOL subfeatures:

- Admin diagnostics screen for permissions, migrations, storage, and PDF health
- Safer destructive-action confirmations and recovery messaging
- Better user/session visibility for operational admins
- More explicit environment validation on startup
- Log-view and export helpers for support/debugging
- Backup verification checklist and restore drill guidance

## Revisit / Deferred Items

- Local Windows Prisma migration reliability still needs a cleaner documented workflow or tooling wrapper
- Frontend bundle splitting is still deferred; the Vite chunk-size warning remains
- Sales approvals and document revision history were planned but not yet built
- Broader branded PDFs for quotes and sales orders still need to be added
- Shipping is now linked to sales orders, but labels, bills of lading, and logistics attachments are still pending
- Inventory transactions exist, but transfers, reservations, and more advanced stock controls still need follow-up
- CRM document rollups and broader account-role depth were deferred until more downstream modules exist
- Audit-trail depth is still thin outside the current record/update flows
- Some generated document and workflow screens still need additional polish for dense, keyboard-efficient operational use
- Dashboard cards now use live data, but richer recent-activity widgets and exception queues are still deferred

## Cross-cutting improvements

- Stronger validation and error reporting across all APIs
- More automated tests for auth, settings, files, PDFs, and workflow modules
- Better mobile behavior in module-level pages
- Ongoing responsive-density tuning for module-level layouts and data-entry screens
- Consistent document-template system shared by sales, purchasing, and shipping
- Clear upgrade path for future module additions without refactoring the app shell

## Near-term priority order

1. Purchase receiving flow and vendor-side operational depth
2. Sales and purchasing PDF templates
3. Shipping labels, bills of lading, and logistics attachments
4. Live manufacturing gantt scheduling
5. Broader audit and operations maturity