Automating Manufacturing Plans and Insights for ERP

The client came to us to help them build a solution for manufacturers to auto-generate full manufacturing plans and schedules from sales orders. The solutions had the following requirements:

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• Sales orders would come from global and local apparel brands. The order formats are non-standardized.

• Manufacturing schedules created from sales orders need to facilitate resource and dependency planning for multiple factories and production lines at once.

• Material ordering and inventory control need to be automated and optimized for costs.

• Management approval chains and processes need to be incorporated into the workflow and be configurable.

• Detailed schedules, Gantt charts, approval documents, and material and process dependency graphs along with other relevant documents need to be auto-generated.

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Ample Insight worked with the client to create the technical roadmap, and delivered the implementation on schedule and on budget. Weekly checkins and updates were provided to the client to ensure the consistent alignment on priorities and direction. As part of this project, we delivered:

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• A fully stateless Python backend application with 20+ software modules

• Deployed using Kubernetes and AWS EKS

• Employed Circle CI for CD/CI

• Fully automated testing suite using auto-generated test fixtures

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Select technologies we’ve used on this project include:

As part of the partnership, we've also trained the client's engineering and product teams on more sustainable and streamlined:

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• Devops best practices including code release workflows and CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment)

• Development and code review best practices

• Data best practices

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Following the delivery of the above solution, we’ve grown our partnership to include end-to-end fullstack engineering and data science services for the client to help them further accelerate their business growth.