The customer's challenge
The customer's challenge
The company was still a venture capital-funded development company where each new product delivered to the customer had its own technical specification, which prevented planning, standardisation of components and planning of purchases. It was not possible to make revenue forecasts as production progressed in an ad-hoc manner.
System before/after
System before/after
Both during and after our assignment, Odoo was used as an ERP system. However, the setup was changed after our assignment as it was redesigned for serial production with article structures and information that would allow planning.
Solution
Solution
The conversion work, which was driven very strongly by us, aimed to create standardisation of the product specification in order to place purchases with the necessary foresight and create work orders for the component departments in the factory. With these two conditions in place, serial production could begin to deliver against the company's extensive order book.
Result
Result
In the role of interim COO, we were given a mandate to reorganise for serial production, with the consequence that some people had their roles changed to adapt staffing to the need and that the new processes established by us began to be implemented as intended. So that the start of a serial production factory got underway and unit production could be finalised.
Conclusions
Conclusions
The culture that is built up in a development company where there is a high level of acceptance of changes to the products is challenging to change unless the staffing is changed to some extent as other goals and other "heroes" are created in a serial production operation. Then a strong owner is needed who recognises that decisions must be made and actions must be consistent with the target image.
We carry out at least 20 different assignments in parallel, which means that our experience bank is developing at a rapid pace. To give you inspiration for projects that can be similar to your current challenges, we share here what we have learnt from others that will benefit you in a future assignment.
What we have done
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