Sectors
Manufacturing
Production, stock, quality and finance data in one place, so decisions are made on today's numbers rather than last month's.
The problems we hear most
- ERP, MES and spreadsheets each tell a different version of the truth
- Month-end takes days of re-keying before anyone sees a margin
- Scrap, downtime and OEE are tracked by hand on the shop floor
- Stock levels are discovered at stocktake, not managed day to day
How we help manufacturers
We start with the numbers the operations director and the finance director argue about: margin by product, OEE by line, stock cover by SKU. Power BI over the ERP gives everyone the same figures, refreshed daily, and the arguments move on to what to do about them.
Shop-floor capture is where most manufacturing data goes wrong. A Power App on a tablet replaces the paper downtime sheet and the quality clipboard, so the data is right at source and in the report the same day.
Where processes repeat, such as purchase approvals, certificate of conformity paperwork or supplier chasing, Power Automate takes the admin away from the people who should be running the plant.
Typical first projects
- A margin and sales dashboard over the ERP, with one definition of cost everyone signs off
- An OEE and downtime app for one line, then rolled out to the rest
- Automated purchase order approvals routed through Teams
The services that matter here
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Using Microsoft Power BI to deliver actionable insights and better decision-making.
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Automated solutions to reduce manual tasks and operational costs.
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Streamline operations, automate workflows and enhance productivity with Microsoft Power Apps.
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Manufacturing in practice
Work we have done for businesses like yours.
Engineering & manufacturingGlobal engineering services group, UK finance team
Real-time bad debt reporting replaced a month-end spreadsheet
A UK finance team was spending days each month chasing collections through manual steps and spreadsheets. We mapped the order-to-cash process, removed the redundant steps, automated the rest and put real-time bad debt reporting in front of the people who needed it.
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Food & drink manufacturingUK food manufacturer
A Data and BI strategy the finance team now runs itself
A well-known food manufacturer wanted reporting the finance team could trust and extend themselves. Over a two-year partnership we built the data model, the Power BI reporting and the skills to run it in house.
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