Manufacturing
The plant floor and the ledger, finally agreeing
Production, inventory, maintenance and cost sit in different systems in most plants, and the monthly variance is where they get reconciled. Put them on one platform and the number is right before month-end rather than after it.
The toolkit
What a plant actually runs on
What gets in the way
Key challenges
01
Stock counted on paper, then keyed in days later
02
Work in progress visible only once the job closes
03
Production planning built in a spreadsheet nobody else can open
04
Downtime and maintenance recorded outside the system that costs them
05
Finance and operations closing the month on different numbers
What we deploy
XEETEK solutions
The Microsoft and XEE components we put in place for this sector, and the order we usually put them in.
- Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management for production, planning and costing
- XEE WMS for scanned receiving, directed put-away, picking and cycle counts
- XEE Time Attendance for shift capture and labour cost by line
- Power BI for yield, scrap, downtime and cost-per-unit reporting
- Power Automate for quality holds, approvals and exception routing
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