As a manufacturer, reaching peak efficiency can sometimes seem like an impossible feat. You know you could fix problems plaguing your bottom line if only you could get to them in a timely manner. Access Group’s solutions can speed up the scorekeeping process so you can get back to the business at hand.

For a Tulsa-based manufacturer of precision-machined aerospace parts and a Boeing Supplier of the Year, the ability to deliver was never in doubt.

Internal efforts to improve, however, were bogged down by cumbersome manual tracking methods that took days to produce results. “If I wanted to see anything that was going on this month, I had to wait until several weeks into the next month,” says the operations manager. “How do you move on that? In most cases, the window of opportunity for improvement is gone.”

Access Group’s solution was to enable the company to retrieve real-time data by implementing Infor ERP Syteline Business Intelligence along with a system of touch-screen enabled data collection stations and bar-coded work orders. “Now I can tell how much time is on every job in my shop floor just through a few clicks of a button,” he says. “On any given day, I can tell what my sales are for the month and my profitability on those parts. I can produce the same information for yesterday, last week, three years ago, or however I want to see it.”