Specialty Woodworks Story
Enterprise Performance Management
Building a Next Generation Manufacturing Scheduling and Cost Control Financial System
Business Challenges
- Client has a complex speciality wood manufacturing business that has a highly integrated process and supplier dependencies
- Client needed to connect batch scheduling for connecting suppliers to orders and creating manufacturing tracking
- System also needed to have a financial scheduling and management capability to ensure the right number of employees are available against orders.
- System also need to interface to HR Systems for time and attendance tracking and control for Payroll
Vision & Approach
- Creating an Automated Manufacturing Estimator Module to Quickly Respond to Client Requests
- Build a Comprehensive and Integrated ERP Manufacturing System
- Connected the New ERP System to other Existing Enterprise Systems for a Comprehensive View
- Create a Near Real Time Employee Demand Management
- Improve Order Efficiency with Suppliers to Reduce Standing Inventory
- Streamline the Entire Manufacturing Process
Results Delivered
- Increased the Accuracy the Manufacturing Process that Increased Operating Margins
- New Levels of Employee Efficiency and Reduction of Labor Costs
- Reduction in Raw Materials Costs and Waste Due an Optimized Process and Capability
Custom architectural woodwork for large offices and enterprises (the speciality of our
client) is labor and capital intensive with long supply chains. Extremely accurate cost
and time estimates directly drive profitability for the client. Therefore, Supra’s Solutions
Architecture team had several rounds of discussions with the client’s team to fully
understand their current needs, workflows, and future pipeline. The outcome of this
thorough process was a fully featured ERP system developed using modern web
development techniques using PHP, MYSQL, AJAX, Javascript, JQuery, HTML5, CSS3.
The frontend UI was designed and developed using Bootstrap. To maintain the needed
performance, security and privacy, the application was hosted on a powerful dedicated
linux hosting server. Quickbook’s APIs were integrated with the system to enable client
to quickly and accurately calculate salaries, performance bonuses, overtime. This
seamless integration of HR management and ERP greatly simplified the client’s
workflow. The application built by Supra is highly scalable and modular - allowing the
client flexibility to implement upgrades and modifications as business needs evolve.
