Field Apps · Reported from Shanghai

Field apps built on the factory floor — not in an office.

Interactive tools you run on your iPhone or iPad, right there in the plant: score the supplier, calculate the true landed cost, take your notes, and text the finished report to your boss before you walk out. Offline. Reusable. Yours.

New · A new field app every few weeks
Quick Answer

The Factory Floor field apps are interactive checklists and calculators a procurement manager runs on an iPhone, iPad, or Android touchscreen while visiting a supplier — tap to score, take notes, and send the finished report to your manager by WhatsApp, iMessage, or email. They're built by Cengiz Gündüz, a sourcing operator on the ground in Shanghai who audits factories every week: the operator's judgment, in your pocket, offline.

Everyone else builds these in an office. I build them on the floor.

There are plenty of audit apps. Almost all of them are SaaS tools run from an office in the US — they hand you a blank checklist and leave you to figure out what to actually ask. I'm not that. I'm in Shanghai, inside these factories every single week, running these exact checks with my own money on the line. These apps are 25 years of that, in your pocket.

Think of it like milk. Anyone can hand you the whole bottle and tell you to sort it out. This is the cream — the filtered result: the questions that actually matter, the tells a real operator watches for, the number that decides your margin. Top-tier productivity, not a form to fill in.

It started with a pencil and a notebook.

For 25 years I've been on the ground, walking into factories and running these exact checks — the vetting list, the landed-cost math, the audit. But I did it the old way: a notebook and a pencil, writing it down, checking it off. It worked. It was also slow, I'd lose pages, and my boss got the summary two days later.

So I built the thing I always wanted. I'm not a tech guy sitting in an office on the other side of the world, selling you a tool for a field I've never stood in. I've been here 25 years doing the trade myself, on my own money — this vetting list, this tariff calculator, these checks. Nobody understands it better, because nobody else is both on the floor and building the tool.

And I'm not charging you every month. One-time. Buy it, keep it, run it on every order for the rest of your career. I built it to make your life easier — mine, my clients', and every procurement person who walks into a factory, anywhere in the world.

The apps

How a field app works

  1. 1Walk the supplier — tap through the checks on your iPad, right in the factory.
  2. 2It auto-scores and hands you the verdict, or the real number, as you go.
  3. 3Jot your notes under each item — what you saw, what to follow up on.
  4. 4One tap sends the finished report to your boss — WhatsApp, iMessage, or email.

Works offline. Add it to your Home Screen. Reuse it on every supplier, forever — iPhone, iPad, or Android.

I'm a details person. It's baked into every app.

When I audit a factory, I dig into every tiny detail. A few weeks ago an engineer looked up mid-audit and said, "Man — I've never been grilled like this." That's the standard: the precise questions a 25-year operator actually asks, not a generic form a software company guessed at.

Here's what that does for you. You walk out with the top-1% answer. You look sharp to your boss, you make the right call, and both sides win — you get the productive result you came for, and the person you report to trusts it. That's the whole game, and it's the productivity you won't regret.

New tools every few weeks — built personally, on the ground.

This isn't a static app store. Every few weeks my team and I ship a new field tool — personalized, industry by industry, from what I'm seeing on the floor that week. China is about 90% of what I do, but the method travels: the same discipline works in any factory, anywhere in the world.

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I'm on the ground in Shanghai every week — supplier visits, audits, negotiations. cengiz@thefactoryfloorhq.com
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