Data-flow check
Where does your data break?
Twelve questions about how an order becomes stock, an invoice and a month-end report in your business. The result is a map of where data flows and where someone types it in again, and one recommendation for what to fix first.
Your answers stay in your browser. If you send us the result, only the summary line is included.
Before you start
One question at a time, all multiple choice, about three minutes. It works for a trading company as well as a factory — the production question appears only if you make things.
Your answers stay in your browser. If you send us the result, only the summary line is included.
Questions this check gets asked
- What does the data-flow check actually do?
- It asks twelve multiple-choice questions about how orders, stock, production, invoicing and reporting move through your business, then applies a fixed set of rules to your answers. The result is a map of each hand-off marked flows, partly, re-keyed or missing, a list of the breaks in plain words, and one recommendation for what to fix first with the reasoning. It is a structured self-assessment, not an audit.
- What do you store?
- Nothing, unless you choose to send the result. The questions and the rules run in your browser; your answers are never uploaded and are not saved on this device either. If you use the form, the only thing derived from the check that is sent is the one-line summary shown above it — the number of breaks as a bucket and the name of the first fix. Our analytics records that the check was completed and that same bucket, never an answer.
- Who is it for?
- Any business whose data moves between people and systems: a trading company, a distributor, a service business that holds stock, an online store, or a factory. The production question appears only if you manufacture. It is written for the owner or operations manager who knows how the work actually gets done, not for an IT department.
- What does “first fix” mean?
- The one change that the other fixes depend on. Data flows in an order — an order becomes a stock movement, an invoice and a line in a report — so a break early in that chain corrupts everything after it. The recommendation comes from a fixed table: each row names a pattern of answers and the fix that unblocks it, and when several rows match, the one closest to what you said hurts most wins. It never estimates cost, time or benefit.
- What is the Future Factories framing, and does it mean I qualify?
- If you say you are a licensed factory considering the Ministry of Industry’s Future Factories programme or SIDF financing, the result restates your findings using the five solution names on the programme’s basic-digitisation track, with links to the Ministry and SIDF pages. That is vocabulary, not eligibility: whether a factory qualifies is decided by the Ministry and SIDF, and Nizamics is not listed as an accredited programme provider.
This is a structured self-assessment, not an audit or a proposal. The result is fixed guidance selected by rules from your answers; it does not estimate cost, time or benefit, does not decide eligibility for any programme, and is not a compliance verdict. Nizamics does this kind of work — see how we work and the guarantee — and the check is designed to be equally useful if you never contact us. How we work · The guarantee