This project started as a small pet project while I was working for an employer that manufactures furniture.  At the time, they had someone who was responsible for typing up a list of open orders into excel so that the status of those orders could be updated by several individuals in different areas of the shop as the product progressed through their area.  The simplest presentation displayed a list of customer orders along with corresponding product statuses.  As more individuals began using this tool, it became adapted for each of the unique uses.  Before the web based tool was retired and replaced with a full fledged ERP and production solution, only slight characteristics of the original deployment remained.  This platform functioned as the epicenter of production operations, driving reports about what product was past due, the number of boxes and their attributes for each finished good and maintaining minimum stock order quantities.  During the planning and deployment for the new ERP platform, the interface titled SOTrack (Sales Order Tracking) served as a powerful tool to help organize information, develop stronger more acceptable workflows and ultimately keep moving forward.