Manufacturing operations that still run on tribal knowledge
Mid-size manufacturers - 50 to 500 people - face a specific problem. You have grown past the point where one person can hold the whole operation in their head, but you have not reached the scale where SAP or Oracle makes sense. Procurement, production planning, and quality control run on spreadsheets, email chains, and the experience of people who have been there fifteen years.
That works until it does not. A key person goes on holiday and nobody knows how to handle the supplier exception. A quality issue gets caught at shipping instead of at the line. A production schedule changes and three departments find out at different times.
Where we see time and money leak
- Supplier coordination - purchase orders, confirmations, and delivery tracking spread across email, WhatsApp, and spreadsheets
- Production scheduling - changes cascade manually through planning, warehouse, and shipping
- Quality documentation - inspection records, non-conformance reports, and corrective actions tracked in disconnected systems
- Inventory visibility - real stock levels known only to the warehouse team, not to planning or sales
What we do
We start on your factory floor. We map the actual flow - not what the manual says, but what people actually do. Then we connect the systems, eliminate the manual handoffs, and build operational intelligence that lets your team manage by exception instead of managing every transaction.
Typical engagement: 8 weeks from first visit to running system. Your team owns everything we build.
Common starting point: Connecting ERP to production floor systems, automating supplier communication, or building real-time inventory visibility across warehouse and planning.