Automated Production Planning & Reporting System for Manufacturing

About

A unified, intuitive, and automation centric solution that enables streamlining of the complex manufacturing processes by providing insight on production estimation for better planning. The customer was looking for a replacement as against their existing MS Excel-based reporting system for tracking daily production elements.

Capablity

Analytics

Industry

Manufacturing

Country

USA

Key Features

The solution helped track and measure production against the set goal, ensuring optimum utilization of plant capability and resources.

Material requirement planning

Facilitates effective management of manufacturing processes and improve inventory control with detailed insight into material requirement to achieve efficiency in production

Inventory management

Transparent view with the ease of tracking of the material flow across various departments right from warehouse to production line

Intuitive dashboard

Unified platform to effectively track the entire production process, right from inventory to production, and planning to report with a process controlled mechanism

Order projection & mapping

Summary of the production processes that allow the manufacturer to project the number of goods to be manufactured in next phase including mapping of the concerned labor across all tasks

Challenges

Very high production cost due to no insight on materials required and used
Replicating manual MS Excel style reporting with intuitive and interactive reports
Lack of business visibility in terms of production, inventory and sales plan
Lack of ease for resource / labor allocation across entire production process

Solution

The overall process was divided into a planned, phased manner. We developed a fully automated production reporting system to plan, track & measure goods manufacturing.

Production lifecycle management

The developed solution helped streamline the entire production and recovery lifecycle, starting from raw-material collection from warehouse to final product recovery

Automated data entry

The data entry interface helped with input on the daily item collections, product recovery, regular production work orders, and daily production goal information

Scalable and powerful platform

It’s a robust solution developed using custom .NET technology integrated with the existing Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 database to derive better insights from the data

Real-time reports

A custom reporting engine component was developed to generate varied production performance on a real-time basis based on KPIs and metrics with the provision to export report data into MS Excel, PDF, or share it via email.