Manufacturing

Providing better traction on manufacturing performance management through interactive digital reports delivered to your iPad

As a manufacturer you need to keep daily tabs on how to:

• Maximize production time (and minimize idle time)
• Maximize productivity
• Produce more of the stuff that moves (and avoid stock piling non-moving items)
• Keep cost of conversion low
• Ensure quality benchmarks are successfully and sustainably met

We can set up a database of manufacturing key performance indicators, update the database on an ongoing basis and provide digital dashboards or Interactive digital reports delivered to your desktop or iPad to help you:

 

• Obtain a bird’s eye-view of your business
• Identify flash points
• Drill down to finer levels of detail
• Identify and extrapolate trends
• Understand and correlate composition
• Obtain a different perspective by slicing/dicing data and
• Compare manufacturing KPI performance against industry benchmarks and the competition

We use state-of-the-art business intelligence tools such as Microstrategy, Qlikview or Roambi to deliver interactive digital reports.

 

 

Production planning & inventory levels

Planning the products and quantity to be manufactured so your conversion capacity is fully utilized and you are not saddled with non-moving inventory is a fine balancing act that requires systematic and accurate aggregation and validation of sales orders/forecasts, estimating demand on capacity and raw materials/components, and issuing job/batch orders for production.

We can maintain your databases of sales orders, sales forecasts, bill of materials, labor hour requirements, we can collect on an ongoing basis information on stock levels, inventory movements and we can prepare job orders or batch orders for the shop floor.

We can monitor inventory levels of your various stock items and generate purchase orders based on re-order levels or forecasting requirements.

 

Cost analysis

We can help you capture costs (product and period) to the right level of granularity to determine the cost of production of each product and the cost of operation for each week or month and help you ensure:

• Your pricing incorporates all your product costs and period costs
• Your costs are comparable to benchmarks and budgets/standards.

 

Resource time analysis

We can help you capture and analyze, on an ongoing basis, time spent by each resource (whether a machine, center or a worker) on jobs and batches and monitor:

• Productivity (against benchmark standards or budgets)
• Idle time

 

Accounting and other back office processes

We can manage several of the accounting and back office processes of a manufacturing enterprise including:

• Sales order processing
• Invoicing and collections
• Accounts receivable
• Supplier bills and payments
• Payroll and
• General ledger

Some processes are best handled within your enterprise, for example:

• Stores accounting (raw materials, components, finished goods)
• Production accounting (job/batch orders, production credits and valuation)

For more information on our accounting services see “Accounting services.