Manufacturing Operations Efficiency Guide

Not knowing what a job really cost until weeks later? We connect your production, stock and accounting systems so you see accurate job costs sooner.

The Hidden Cost of Separate Manufacturing Systems

The Problem: In many manufacturing businesses, the production floor, the stock system and the accounts don't talk to each other. Figures get retyped from one to the next, so it can be weeks before anyone knows what a job really cost. We connect those systems so the figures flow through on their own, and you get job costs you can trust while there's still time to act on them.

How It Often Plays Out:

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Production: Jobs run across several lines and work centres
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Recording: Timesheets and materials used are logged in separate systems
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Matching up: Someone makes the production, stock and accounting figures agree by hand
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Finally: Actual job costs are worked out, and overruns come to light

The Impact: When you find out a job went over cost weeks after it was made, fixing the cause is expensive.

For example: a $2M production run that comes in $300,000 over cost

that you might have caught if you had seen the numbers as production happened

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Want to Talk It Through?

Start with a free initial chat about your systems and where the numbers get lost. If it's worth going deeper, our $5,000 Process & Systems Audit gives you a written report on what to fix first.

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