Production planned months ahead, instead of putting out fires every day.
Cockpit is a web app we built for Goodwill Pharma's production. It turns the sales plan into a month-by-month production plan and shows which raw materials will run out, before they do.
See it in action
The whole factory on one screen.
What the factory is doing
Products, warehouses, production runs this month and plan against actual, live from the ERP.
What will run out
Projected stock of every raw material, month by month. Red means a shortage before it happens.
What needs attention
Expiry dates, late deliveries and production runs behind plan, all on one screen before they become urgent.
By the numbers
What Cockpit keeps track of.
The transformation
From paper and Excel to one production plan.
Before
Production was planned on paper. When someone needed to filter or compare anything, the paper was retyped into Excel. Half of it never got that far.
There was no way to see whether a production run was on time, which line was overloaded or what the next month needed. Nobody could analyse a stack of paper.
Managers spent their days putting out fires. There was no room left for improving anything.
Now
Cockpit takes what sales plans to sell and turns it into a production plan: what to make, how much, on which line, in which month.
Each production run has a recipe, a quantity and a status. Done or not done, visible on one screen.
The people who used to chase paper now work on the production itself: new products, better processes, where to source materials from.
What else we built for them
Beyond planning, three things production uses every day.
They needed the plan to follow what sales had sold
Plan tied to the sales plan
When sales commits to a quantity for the months ahead, Cockpit works out what production has to deliver each month, for every product. The two plans stop drifting apart.
They needed today's numbers, not last week's
Always current numbers
Cockpit reads the numbers directly from the company's business systems, so the plan, the stock and the production are always up to date. Nobody copies numbers from one place to another.
They needed to know whether the line was keeping pace
Is production keeping pace?
Every product has a set time it should take to make. The next part, now being built, will compare it with how long it really took, so a delay shows up while there is still time to react.
THE RESULT
A factory that plans instead of reacts.
Goodwill Pharma's production now plans months ahead, in one place. Raw material shortages show up before they happen, and the people who used to chase paper now work on improving production.