Work · Advanced manufacturing & logistics

Manufacturing — throughput, lead time, and supplier risk

A make-to-order manufacturer with volatile raw inputs needed a forecast that tied order backlog, supplier slippage, and plant constraints—without a seven-tab spreadsheet ritual.

BOM lines & vendors

140+

Rolled up

Constraint alerts

Daily

Bottlenecks

Supplier tiers

4

Stability + spend

KPIs are illustrative / representative — not audited client guarantees.

Challenge

Production and procurement met daily with static snapshots; the CEO still asked “are we on track for the quarter” without a defensible number.

Approach

We consolidated ERP, MES, and forward orders into a finite-capacity view with slippage alerts and a supplier stability scorecard derived from on-time and price variance history.

Design decisions

  • Finite-capacity view as the weekly ops anchor
  • Ranked delay drivers instead of ad-hoc expedite triage
  • Supplier stability scorecard from OTIF + price variance

Representative views

Concept frames below are anonymised representations — not production screenshots.

Constraint alerts · liveSupplier slip · Tier ALead time +9d vs planCapacity watchLine 2 at 94% utilisationForecast stableWithin ±3% of baseline
Representative concept · illustrative data
Source graph · reconciledBillingCRMWarehouseUnifiedmetric layerCockpitviews
Representative concept · illustrative data

Forward MRR

$1.24M

NRR

112%

Sources

11

Representative concept · illustrative data

Outcomes

  • Gave a single on-hand / on-order / at-risk story for the weekly ops meeting
  • Replaced ad-hoc expedite triage with ranked delay drivers
  • Tied working-capital conversations to the same dashboard leadership trusted

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