The owner called me on a Friday afternoon, panicking. Their lead times had ballooned from two weeks to six, and they couldn’t figure out why. A custom furniture shop with 40 employees, and they were drowning in half-finished orders.
It was a material planning disaster
They were ordering wood based on what the lead carpenter thought would be needed. Guesswork, pure and simple. ERPNext Consulting helped them set up a simple bill of materials for their top 10 products. That one change cut material shortages by over 30% in the first month.
- We linked each production order to actual customer demand
- We set up a visual kanban board for the floor team
- We automated the purchase orders for raw materials based on production schedule
The workflow shift that mattered most
The biggest win wasn’t the software. It was getting the team to trust the system’s recommendations. Once they saw that automated planning cut their overtime labor by 15%, they were all in. The owner told me he finally sleeps through the night.
Production chaos is rarely about bad workers. It’s about bad visibility. That’s the gap ERPNext Consulting closes best.