ManufacturingMid-market manufacturer · 200 employees

From 9 spreadsheets to one live operating system

Production, inventory and procurement unified — approvals from hours to minutes.

99.4%
inventory accuracy
96%
shorter approval cycle
73%
less manual data entry
Client snapshot
Industry
Manufacturing
Company size
200 employees
Departments
6
Workflows automated
10
Users
50
Timeline
4 months
The challenge

Production, inventory, and procurement ran across nine disconnected spreadsheets. No live view of the shop floor, approvals lost in email, and inventory numbers no one trusted.

A 200-person manufacturer scaling faster than its tooling could keep up. Every department kept its own version of the truth, and leadership only saw the real picture at month-end.

The starting point

How the work actually ran — and what it cost

Current state
  • Excel spreadsheets
  • WhatsApp messages
  • Email threads
  • Manual approvals
  • Scattered information
  • Delayed decisions
The impact
  • Approval chains stalled in inboxes for hours
  • Inventory accuracy hovered around 82%
  • Month-end close took nine days of manual reconciliation
  • No real-time visibility into production status
What needed to change

A clear picture of the future state

  1. 1Centralized operations
  2. 2Workflow automation
  3. 3Real-time reporting
  4. 4Inventory visibility
  5. 5AI-powered insights
Solution architecture

A single connected ERP with automated approvals, real-time inventory across locations, and dashboards that replaced the month-end scramble.

Users
CRM
Workflow engine
ERP modules
Reporting layer
AI insights

Every layer shares the same data — so a lead becomes a record, a record triggers a workflow, and the result lands in reporting and AI without re-keying.

Modules implemented

From problem to module to outcome

Production management
No live view of what's running
Real-time production status by line and order
Inventory & raw materials
Counts updated by hand
99%+ accuracy synced across locations
Procurement & approvals
POs stuck in email
Routed, escalated, fully audited
Dispatch & quality
Slips and rework go unseen
On-time dispatch with quality traceability
Reporting & AI insights
Month-end guesswork
Live dashboards and early anomaly alerts
Business impact

What changed for the business

  • Approval cycle cut from 4.2 hours to 11 minutes
  • Month-end close reduced from 9 days to 2
  • Throughput up 24% within two quarters
MetricBeforeAfter
Approval cycle4.2 hours11 minutes
Inventory accuracy82%99.4%
Month-end close9 days2 days
99.4%

inventory accuracy

96%

shorter approval cycle

73%

less manual data entry

6×

faster reporting

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We didn't just get software. We got our operations back — approvals that took days now take minutes, and leadership finally sees the business in real time.
Operations Director · Mid-market manufacturer
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