Material & production planning
To ensure customer satisfaction, we have to plan carefully through all the steps, from issuing the purchasing orders to component suppliers to shipping a batch of finished products out.
Many manufacturers do not have a planning system, and that means their forecasts about shipment dates are far from reliable. To avoid that pitfall, we have developed a planning system that includes and tracks all the steps that may have an impact on the shipment date.
The more complex the product, the more vital this is. When a bill of material has 50+ lines, it becomes very easy to forget re-ordering one component… and delaying the whole batch.
ERP system
We have been developing our own ERP system in-house, to support the unique way we want to operate. Our ERP helps us manage the following areas of the business in a more structured and efficient manner and includes:
- New product developments (logging of activities and their costs, validations and testing)
- Purchasing (orders, deliveries, supplier quality), Inventory (incoming and outgoing materials, defective parts, ageing parts...)
- Production (orders, planning, efficiency...)
- Quality control (FAI, IQC, OQC) and related statistics, BOM management (parts and semi-assemblies, change requests, review & approval process)
- Logistics (tracking, booking, dropshipping)
Our objectives are to keep all this information:
Centralized and easily accessible to our employees (on a need-to-know basis) for the needs of our activity
Confidential and protected, and at the same time open to our customers based on our commitment that they own the deliverables of all the work they paid for.
