Packaging manufacturer, 240-person plant, 6 lines
- Scope
- Daily production, yield, scrap and OTIF dashboard sourced from MES, with downtime Pareto by reason.
- Target outcome
- −14% scrap in Q1, 6h faster OTIF reporting
industries
Excel for manufacturing and operations - daily production yield scrap % OTIF and machine downtime from the MES export. 5 KPIs the plant head and finance team both read. Senior-led from ₹40K.
Manufacturing operations runs on data that lives in three places at once - the MES on the shop floor, the spreadsheets the supervisors maintain, and the inventory system the planning team uses. The number on the morning report rarely matches the number on the plant dashboard, and the reconciliation takes most of the working day. We build the Excel dashboards that pull every source into one refresh so the plant head, the production manager and the finance team are looking at the same numbers before the day starts.
What we usually see
What we ship
Daily production, yield and scrap dashboard by line, shift and product - refreshed from the MES export
Downtime tracker with reason codes and Pareto, so the operations team sees where the hours are going
OTIF and rejection dashboard with customer-level drill-through, linked to the dispatch register
Sample scenario
Packaging manufacturer, 240-person plant, 6 lines
Engagement
Book a 30-minute discovery call
We will come back within a working day with a written fixed-scope proposal - no discovery retainer.
Industry-tuned
Direct channels
Industry rules
Whatever the industry - finance, retail, CA, manufacturing - these are the six rules I never skip.
Norm 01
We don't ship generic dashboards into a CA practice or a manufacturing plant. Patterns are tuned to the industry's data shape and cadence.
Norm 02
Audit trails, segregation of duties, signed approvals - built into the workbook from day one, not bolted on after the auditor flags it.
Norm 03
Reports that don't reconcile are decorative. Every industry build ends with a checks tab that proves the numbers tie out.
Norm 04
Monthly close, daily stock, weekly AR - the build matches the operating cadence. No workbooks that 'refresh quarterly' on a daily business.
Norm 05
You talk to the senior who has shipped into your industry before. No juniors learning on your time, no account managers in the loop.
Norm 06
Industry data is sensitive. Standard NDA before any workbook is exchanged. Data stays inside the engagement, not on a shared drive.