A manufacturer connected shop-floor activity to ERP visibility, in production
The client
The problem
Supervisors ran the shift from the MES view. Planners and controllers worked from ERP. Between them sat manual reconciliation, delayed quality signals, and inventory positions that disagreed depending on where you looked. Problems surfaced at month-end or in customer complaints, long after the shift that caused them.
Four systems, four versions of the truth.
4+
systems holding operational truth separately
After the fact
when discrepancies were typically discovered
Plant execution, quality events, inventory movement, and ERP status lived in fragments, reconciled by hand after the fact.
The solution
Design the integration layer. Production events, quality signals, and inventory movements sync between MES and ERP, with the shop-floor system staying the execution system of record.
Add AI summaries. Shift summaries and quality alerts compile automatically, so supervisors and planners read the same digest of what happened and what's at risk.
Build exception workflows. Reconciliation gaps and quality events route to the responsible supervisor with escalation paths, instead of waiting for month-end discovery.
The impact
One operational truth
plant ↔ ERP
Execution, quality, and inventory reconciled continuously instead of manually at period close.
Same-shift visibility
exceptions surface early
Quality and reconciliation issues route to owners while they can still act.
In production
a running system
Deployed and operating. The pattern Avannte now brings to other plants. Quantified outcome metrics in collection.
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