Representative transformation / fictional company
Manufacturing to trade / Operations platform
Cast & Kiln
Sheets, a lot binder, and a half-implemented Odoo they were afraid to upgrade. We shipped order to run to lot to pick list.
On-time ship from 71% to 88%.
- Specialty manufacturing business
- Two production lines and one packing operation
- Wholesale and made-to-order products
- Existing accounting and payroll retained
The business challenge.
Sales could not see live job status. Allergen and lot tracking lived in a binder. Wholesale orders arrived by email.
- Sales could not see live production status
- Production runs were scheduled in three spreadsheets
- Lot and quality records lived in a physical binder
- Shipping rebuilt pick lists by hand
- The previous ERP rollout attempted to replace too much at once
The platform.
Order into a production run the floor could see. Lot and allergen fields, then pick lists.
- Order-to-production workflow
- Production run planning
- Lot and quality records
- Exception and delay alerts
- Pick lists and shipping status
- Management reporting
Automation and AI, where useful.
Automation follows a defined workflow. AI prepares, summarizes, or flags work for review when judgment still belongs with a person.
- Create production demand from confirmed orders
- Flag material and schedule conflicts
- Prepare pick lists when runs complete
- Notify sales about changed ship dates
- Assemble traceability records for human review
What changed after launch.
On-time ship moved from 71% to 88%, then dipped in the first busy season while people learned the screens. Recalled-lot lookup went from an afternoon to minutes.
A human still checks every label before print, by design.
On-time ship
Before71%
After88%, then a busy-season dip
Lot recall lookup
BeforeAn afternoon
AfterMinutes, plus a human check
What we replaced
BeforeThree spreadsheets plus a binder
AfterNot ERP
“We cancelled Odoo. We still pay a bookkeeper. The week finally has one board.”
Build at $2,000 for about nine months, then ongoing maintenance and improvements at the starting rate.
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