Automated reporting for manufacturers and industrial SMEs
Service rate, late work orders, WIP, dormant stock: a manufacturing SME’s numbers exist in the MRP and accounting, but nobody has time to reconcile them. The agent compiles them every morning before the production meeting.
In your day-to-day
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Morning production brief: late work orders, bottleneck workstations, today’s supply shortages, reported absences.
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On-time-delivery rate per client every week, with the orders threatening the monthly rate.
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WIP and dormant-stock valuation every month, reconciled with accounting.
A typical scenario
In a 70-person plant, the 8 AM production meeting runs on MRP extracts pulled the night before by the executive assistant — when she has time to pull them.
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At 6 AM the agent reconciles routing times against yesterday’s clocked times, workstation by workstation: the press brake’s productivity drift shows up the next morning, not at month-end.
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At month close, the cost of non-conformities — scrap, rework, sorting — arrives consolidated per workshop and per client, without reopening twenty forms.
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The quarterly management review comes pre-assembled: quality, service rate and margin per product family, ready to discuss.
What changes
The 8 AM meeting starts with decisions instead of number-crunching, and shop-floor drifts get corrected the week they appear.
Order of magnitude
Working assumptions
- →one day a month of compilation for the executive assistant
- →30 minutes a day preparing the production meeting
Around 17 hours a month handed back (7 h + 30 min × 20 days) — roughly two working days, and daily indicators where there used to be one set a month.
Indicative estimate built on average sector assumptions — it gets recalibrated on your actual volumes during scoping.
What eats your days
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Supply shortages are discovered when the work order is released — and scheduling gets redone by hand in a rush.
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The sales-admin inbox mixes PDF orders, supplier confirmations, delivery-date requests and quality claims — everything is retyped, nothing is prioritised.
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Key accounts demand EDI, supplier portals and service-rate indicators — and it is your team copying data from one system to another.
How it works
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Connected to your sources
Accounting, CRM, bank, e-commerce, spreadsheets: the agent reads your existing tools, read-only. Your numbers stay with you.
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Automatic perspective
A number alone says nothing. The agent compares to yesterday, to the same period last year, to your target — and qualifies the gap: normal, watch, act.
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Brief where you actually read
Email, WhatsApp, Slack: the brief lands every morning where you really read. Three lines when all is well, a deep-dive when something drifts.
Typical results
2 min
to read the morning brief, full picture included
1 d → 0
human time per reporting cycle
D-30 → D-1
drift detection: as it happens, not at close
Orders of magnitude observed in production; your diagnostic sets your own baseline and targets.
Frequently asked questions
Our data is split between the MRP, accounting and spreadsheets — is that a blocker?+
No, it is the normal case: the agent reads each source where it lives, read-only, and does the reconciliation nobody has time to do by hand. Shop-floor spreadsheets are part of the sources, not part of the problem.
Can it prepare the indicators our key accounts demand?+
Yes: service rate, PPM, action-plan tracking — the agent produces them in the format and at the cadence each account requires, from the same data. The client review gets prepared by reading, not by compiling.
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