MANUFACTURING

Industries

Manufacturing

Manufacturers rarely lack data — they lack agreement between the floor, the store and the ledger. We connect production reporting to costing to finance so the cost of a unit is a fact rather than a monthly reconstruction.

Sector focus
Costed BOMs, real shop-floor capture and margin you can defend line by line.
Services most used here
SAP Business One · Oracle NetSuite · Power BI

What we find

The four problems we are usually called in about

Recognisable? Each one has a root cause in process or data design rather than in software capability.

01

Cost per unit is calculated, not known

Standard costs age, actual consumption is captured late, and variance analysis arrives after the pricing decision has already been made.

02

The floor reports on paper

Production, scrap and downtime are written on a sheet and keyed in a shift later, so WIP is always an estimate and traceability breaks under pressure.

03

Maintenance and production compete

Planned maintenance has no shared calendar with the production plan, so both are optimised separately and neither is achieved.

04

Plants each run their own version

Two sites, two item codes, two definitions of on-time delivery — and no consolidated view a group executive can act on.

How we fix it

What we actually configure for manufacturing

Not a capability list — the five specific design decisions that make the difference in this sector.

  • Costed multi-level BOMs and routings that match how the floor actually reports
  • Shop-floor capture on rugged terminals or scanners, buffered for network gaps
  • Variance analysis — purchase price, usage, efficiency — reported monthly by line
  • One item and customer master across plants, governed by rule
  • OEE, scrap and on-time-delivery dashboards from one semantic model

Typical shift

Month-end close

11 days4 days

Inventory accuracy

82%99%+

Costing visibility

MonthlyPer production order

Indicative of engagements in this sector. Your baseline is measured during Discover, so the target is yours rather than an average.

Case study

Product costing the shop floor actually recognises

Standard costs that had drifted for years rebuilt against real routings and consumption, with shop-floor capture on rugged terminals and variance reported per production order.

99%+Inventory accuracy, from 82%
6hrsFloor-to-ledger lag, from 2 days
11ptsMargin variance explained
Our board finally reads the same numbers we do. Month-end reporting dropped from eleven working days to four, and nobody rebuilds a spreadsheet to get there.
IT Director · Multi-plant engineering manufacturer

FAQ

Manufacturing, specifically

Only where cycle times are measured in seconds or process parameters must be recorded continuously. Most mid-market plants get the visibility they need from ERP production orders plus disciplined capture at defined points. We will tell you which side of that line your operation sits on.

Yes. Capture devices buffer locally and sync when connectivity returns, with reconciliation on both sides. We design for the network you have, then help you fix it.

We cut over across a planned shutdown or a low-volume weekend, with a physical count immediately before and a parallel-run fallback. Production keeps running; the paper trail changes.

Next step

Talk to the lead who covers manufacturing

Forty-five minutes, no deck. Bring one process that frustrates you and we will tell you how we would approach it.

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