Manufacturing
Production, stock and cost in one set of records
A plant already generates the data it needs. What it usually lacks is one place where the shop floor, the stock position and the books are the same numbers, rather than three exports reconciled by hand.
What the sector is up against
Cost arrives too late to act on
Job costing closes weeks after the job does. By the time a margin problem is visible on a report, the quote that caused it has been repeated eleven times.
Stock and ledger disagree
The warehouse system and the finance system each hold a version of inventory value, and month-end becomes the exercise of deciding which one to believe.
Maintenance competes with output
Downtime is recorded where it is noticed rather than against the asset, so nobody can show which machine actually costs the most to keep running.
Energy is a fixed cost by default
One invoice for the site, no attribution to the line or the shift, and therefore no operational decision available.
Find out where your operation actually stands
Four questions about how your systems hold together today. You get a position and a written read of it, not a sales call.