Manufacturing Plants
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Our client is a prominent manufacturing company offering modular enclosure solutions such as low-voltage enclosures, terminal boxes, fully welded boxes, and custom enclosures.
Client's Needs
The client had several manufacturing plants and was deeply concerned about inefficiencies in these plants. They wanted to leverage robust technology to address these inefficiencies and adopt a scalable solution that could grow along with their manufacturing business.
Some of the inefficiencies our client wanted to address were:
- Poor coordination among the manufacturing plants
- Manual checking for the right production plant available to fulfil an order
- Inconsistent quality in the manufacturing units
- Poor integration of existing systems with legacy software
- Inadequate data security and compliance with industry regulations
- Manual effort across the manufacturing process
- No real-time visibility into operations
The client reached out to Navabrind to:
- Leverage technology and streamline processes across their manufacturing plants
- Use automation to reduce the time required to identify the right plant to fulfil an order.
- Engage in quality control
- Access real-time insights into inventory levels, production planning, and order tracking
The Solution
Navabrind provides innovative B2B and B2C e-commerce technology solutions to industries such as Retail, E-commerce, Manufacturing, Automotive, FMCG, and Electronics, to name a few. The Navabrind Team spent a significant amount of time understanding the client’s pain points and decided that a robust Odoo ERP could be customized to the client’s exact needs.
Several modules of Odoo ERP were customized and implemented, including CRM, Accounting, Sales, Inventory, and Manufacturing.
Custom modules were configured to handle packing list automation and import duty auto calculation.
Key Features Implemented
- MRP Planning Engine — To calculate the accurate lead time and determine the best available plant to fulfill the order.
- Operator Login Module — To enable operators to log in to the system, inspect quality, and book output, which enhances the overall quality of the goods.
- Job Card Module — To improve efficiency with grouping and splitting of operations, which led to a streamlined workflow.
- Handling a large inventory of SKUs and Bill of Materials BOMs — 50,000+ SKUs, and 25,000+ BOMs.
How the MRP Planning Engine from Odoo helped the Client
- The MPR Planning Engine was a key feature implemented for the client and helped accurately calculate the lead time for manufacturing. With the lead time for an order determined, the sales team could set the right expectations with the customer. After the client agrees to the lead time, the sales order could be initiated.
- An algorithm automated the process of suggesting the best plant for manufacturing. This automation reduced coordination time among plants from 7 days to 20 minutes.
- The MPR Planning Engine also facilitated optimal resource utilization.
Key Deliverables
- Streamlined Manufacturing — A data-driven process recommended the best manufacturing plant for a particular order and led to enhanced production planning.
- Inventory Management — The system enabled real-time tracking and handling of a large inventory of SKUs and BOMs.
- Increased Sales — Handle a minimum of 3 orders per day.
- Real-time Production Visibility — Real-time insights with accurate MRP processes helped make informed decisions and efficiently meet customer demands.
- Forecasting — Strategic production planning and forecasting helped our client adapt to market changes, avoid incurring losses, and streamline inventory management.
- Scalability — To meet the manufacturing demands of the client.
- Automated Processes — Reduced data entry and minimized errors.
- Enhanced Coordination — Optimized coordination among manufacturing plants.