"Blake UK now has complete visibility of not just its daily production plan but also its next 7 days projected workload. It also has the ability to manually adjust this plan and immediately see the impact of any changes made which can be invaluable when optimising delivery levels.
Managing Director Paul Blake is adamant that as a result the company is in better shape than before. "Preactor has allowed to us to sizeably reduce our stock levels and improve our Just in Time capabilities which is why our lead time has been reduced from a number of weeks to just 7 days."
Cavin Carver, the company’s Works Director, comments: "We use Preactor both for make to order and to allow us to carry stock on critical lines. As a result our production planning has been reduced from two days a week to half an hour a day. We have also improved next day delivery ability to approx 85% and have also reduced backorders. Before we installed Preactor we were backordering certain items seven or eight times when we were busy. Now it is very unusual to see anything backordered more than twice and when this happens, it is due to a stock error, failed manufacturing plan or failed delivery.
We now have full visibility of the manufacturing plan for a week ahead on a rolling basis. This makes it much easier to adapt to changing requirements and assess knock on effects of changing the plan"
The final word belongs to Paul. "There’s more that we can do with the system but one thing’s for sure, we simply couldn’t have grown in the way we have as a company without Preactor."
Paul Blake - Managing Director / Cavin Carver - Works Director
Blake Uk Ltd
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