Customer Story - Preparing for New System Implementation
A Wisconsin-based manufacturing client anticipated significant growth over the next five years through acquisitions, next generation leadership transitions, and new products. A new manufacturing execution system (MES) needed to be selected and a roadmap to guide the company was necessary.
Call for Help:
- The company was expecting a next generation leadership transition in the next five years along with planned acquisitions and new products in the pipeline.
- Current state, their head engineer was building all the plant floor machines and related integrated solutions.
- Company needed support in selecting MES, planning for implementation resourcing, and creating a roadmap and plan.
Farwell Advisor Support:
- FarWell advisor worked to understand where the plant floor data started as it flowed through business processes to MES through apps and data integrations. This analysis increased scope to include new ERP.
- They also gathered current state pain points, operational gaps, missing controls, and organizational change considerations.
- FarWell advisor created financial impact analysis including analysis of resourcing, projected organization growth, projected software growth, and alignment of growth in revenue to % of IT budget.
- Acted as the facilitator of the RFI/RFP process with the client and software vendors.
Results:
A detailed three-year roadmap and plan were delivered along with the selection of a MES.
- A three-year roadmap and plan was created with recommendations for all four layers of the enterprise in a shared critical path. An implementation plan for the roadmap was mapped by week with all necessary internal and external resources outlined.
- Final deliverables were a future state baseline for five-years including MES project execution.
