In today’s fast-paced manufacturing environment, manual, outdated, silo-based systems or legacy ERPs can significantly slow down your enterprise. Delayed production, missed deadlines, manual errors, and quality issues are the symptoms that often point to deeper inefficiencies in your manufacturing operations.

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Operational Bottlenecks and Disruptions

Our organization relies heavily on spreadsheets, legacy, silo-based systems and manual data entry to track work orders, inventory and production.
A lot of time, manpower and costs are incurred due to duplicate efforts by various departments (sales, purchasing, production, supply chain, etc.)
A lot of time, manpower and costs are incurred due to duplicate efforts by various departments (sales, purchasing, production, supply chain, etc.)

Inventory Management Issues

We often run out of inventory stock or over-order materials.
Obtaining clear inventory visibility on hand, in production, and what’s delayed is challenging.
Our customer deliveries often get delayed due to production disruption or order inaccuracies.

Warehouse Management Issues

We manually track goods movement and storage in our warehouse.
We have to physically locate parts or materials in the warehouse.
Updating the master inventory listing takes a lot of time and manual effort.
Inventory counting is a labor and time-intensive task.

Production & Scheduling Issues

We dread inserting ‘hot’ jobs into the production schedule, as we don’t know their impact on jobs in progress and jobs that are yet to begin.
Machine operators rely on manual documentation to know what jobs are coming next.
Most of it is guesswork when it comes to the due dates of jobs.
We have a hard time predicting machine breakdowns and spend more time and money on downtime maintenance.
Our on-time delivery rates are low due to frequent disruptions and breakdowns.
Our BOMs are usually erroneous due to manual data entry.
We don’t know the accurate utilization of our resources such as materials, work centers and personnel.

Job Costing & Accounting Challenges

It’s difficult to arrive at an accurate job costing.
Tracking costs by operator, machine work center, manufacturing stage, etc., is not easy.
We take several weeks to prepare an accurate monthly financial report.
We collate financial data, costs and operational data from various sources to create a report.

Quality Management Issues

Identifying, tracking and mitigating quality issues at each manufacturing stage is challenging.
Quality checks at the time of goods receiving take a longer time and effort before going into the inventory.
Our quality control documentation is paper-based, unorganized and stored in different systems.

Quoting & Estimation Problems

Generating quick and accurate quotes is not easy due to vague and inaccurate job costs.
Lead and prospect documentation are on spreadsheets and notepads, making it difficult to track and convert them into sales.
Our sales rep cannot access lead and customer data easily.
Tracking customer preferences, buying habits based on sales history is difficult.

Shipping & Logistics Issues

Shipments are often delayed because of insufficient real-time data on job completions and delays.
We track goods movement and customer shipment status using manual methods, leading to errors and delays.
We manually generate shipment documentation such as material certifications, Bill of Lading, invoice and other documents.

Lack of Real-time Data Visibility

We have to retrieve data from multiple, disparate systems for data analysis and report creation.
Decision-making takes a hit as we spend a lot of time gathering data.
We have lost crucial bids and contracts to our competitors due to poor data tracking and reporting.

Existing ERP Issues

Our existing ERP doesn’t adapt to our workflows and business processes, forcing us to adapt to its way of functioning.
Customization and third-party integration in our existing ERP is extremely time and labour-intensive due to heavy coding and development requirements.