Manufacturing
When production planning lives in one person's head.
A steel components manufacturer supplying multiple OEMs relied heavily on its plant manager's experience to plan production across lines and customer orders. With capacity, schedules and shop-floor updates spread across different sources, leadership had limited visibility into what was actually happening on the floor.
The impact
- 17%
- higher on-time delivery
- 4 hours/day
- saved for sales & finance
- 7 fewer hires
- needed at the new plant for the same work
Client story
“Earlier, production planning depended heavily on what one person knew and what was happening on the shop floor. Now, we have a much clearer picture of capacity, production and commitments. Everyone is working from the same information.”
Inside the system
We connected shop-floor data with production planning to create a shared view of capacity, orders and delivery commitments.
How it works
01
Shop-floor data comes in
Production updates from across the plant feed into a shared view.
02
Capacity becomes visible
Available capacity across production lines can be seen against current requirements.
03
Production gets planned
Schedules are built around actual capacity, customer orders and delivery commitments.
04
Progress stays visible
As production moves, the plan can be compared with what's actually happening on the floor.
05
Everyone works from the same picture
Sales, finance, production and leadership have a shared view instead of relying on individual updates.
The operation, before and after
- Before LecxeAfter Lecxe
- Production planning depended on plant-manager experienceProduction planning based on a shared operating view
- Capacity spread across different sourcesLive capacity visibility
- Schedules difficult to track across linesProduction schedules connected to actual operations
- Shop-floor updates came through manual follow-upsShop-floor data connected to planning
- Leadership had limited visibilityShared visibility across teams
- Inventory, purchasing and sales operated separatelyConnected workflows across inventory, purchase and sales
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