Overview
Manufacturing industries face challenges at different levels. For most SME - midsized ones, those challenges themselves can bog them down. Introducing an ERP helps them transition from chaos to order, wastage of resources to efficiency.
CREST ERP supports discontinuous manufacturing processes
Industry Snapshot
Foam & Mattress Industry Solution:
Key Features
Manufacture of foams, and various consumer products out of them, such as mattresses, pillows etc. is essentially routine manufacturing activity. However, there are certain unique aspects to this industry, which makes adopting a good cloud ERP a wise decision.
Being a consumer product, the cost of branding, marketing, and distribution are very high. Therefore, manufacturers are constantly trying to control cost of production, without diluting quality, and protect their margins.
Inventory
- Product grade and stage wise stock visibility, without creating multiple SKUs for every grade, or stage - Comprehensive material planning - Automatic raw material indent to stores based on production plan
Procurement
Automatic Purchase Order generation, based on inventory levels
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Production Scrap & Wastage
- Production planning based on Consolidated Sales Orders - Stage wise Production reporting (Latex preparation, to finished product -Production accounting simplified, with barcode sacn
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Material Traceability
Barcoding for final despatch. Automated Batch number with Traceability.
Implementation Highlights
In a highly competitive, brand-driven industry, manufacturers are constantly looking at ways to capture the market with products that offer better style, comfort and healthy sleep.
- Dealers and branches keep placing orders to the manufacturer. It is cumbersome processing these orders, without consolidating them.
- Product grade and stage wise stock visibility, without creating multiple SKUs for every grade/ stage
- Stage wise Production reporting (Latex preparation, solution, compound, wet products, fabrication, hybrid fabrication, pillows, quilts).
- Barcoding products, shipments, and batch number tagging are necessary to trace them, in case of quality issues
- Dealers and branches needed an easy, user-friendly way to place order on the factory
- 98% Achievement
- 87% Positivity
- Production processes streamlined with Material Requirements Planning [MRP], Production Planning and Scheduling, and Production Costing.
- Enabled production reporting at various stages of production, viz. latex preparation, solution, compound, wet products, fabrication, hybrid fabrication, pillows, quilts.
- Mobile applications offered for production reporting, and orders from dealers and branches.
- Automated procurement, based on stock levels for minimum stock, reorder level, reorder quantity, EOQ. CREST ERP generated Purchase Orders, taking into account these stock levels and lead time
- Product grade and stage wise stock visibility, without creating multiple SKUs for every grade/ stage
- Product fabrication accounting simplified. Workers simply scan barcode to automatically report production.
- All business processes brought under an integrated management system meant high visibility into operations, and consequently, better efficiency.
- Order flow from dealers and branches became faster, eliminated confusion and fulfilment errors.
- Barcoding made the life of factory staff and inventory staff better
- Stage-wise production reporting helped identify stages, where wastage and scrap generation were in excess of permissible levels. This went straight into the bottomline
- Batch number traceability simplified warranty administration
- 98% Achievement
- 87% Positivity
