Success Stories
Manufacturing
Quick Facts
Manufacturing
  • Summary: Productos Montblanc is a family-run company with a century of experience in the design, manufacture and distribution of rubber and latex derived products
  • Industry: Manufacturing
  • Number of Employees: 10
  • Estimated Annual revenues: 3 million euros
  • Implementation: Montblanc, Tarragona (Spain). 900 h. Started in Oct'06. Finalized in Mar'07
  • Website: www.productosmontblanc.com
Challenges
  • Management of references: the system should allow effective and time-efficient management of a large number of product references with little differences between them (color, dimensions, etc.)
  • Maintain or increase productivity per employee achieved by the historic company
  • Full traceability of the purchasing, manufacturing, sales and financial processes
Solutions
  • Use of the product attributes to manage, with a single reference, the different characteristics of color, measurement or appearance of the products
  • Automation of low value added and high consuming tasks such as: bank integration, tax and price determination, monthly asset depreciation or manufacturing against customer sales order
Results
  • Improved customer service, thanks to being able to easily obtain complete and relevant information for every customer
  • Reduced response times and better visibility amongst teams following integration of the manufacturing process with the sales and warehouse management processes
  • More efficient management of product references
  • Integration of banking transactions, which has significantly reduced the effort dedicated to this task