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BCW Engineer their success

BCW Engineering Ltd was formed in 2002. The core business is sub contract precision machining and assembly particularly for the Automotive and Power Generation sectors. Current customers include Jaguar, Helical and Kiddie. Although the company had enjoyed major success in sales and profit growth since its formation, this success had been achieved using disparate pieces of software and excel based spreadsheets to manage the production processes. The directors realised that their growth strategy couldn’t be achieved using their existing systems without compromising control and operational efficiency. The directors decided to install a new business management system as part of their strategy to grow and develop the company with the help of the DDU.

The directors decided to install a new business management system as part of their strategy to grow and develop the company. The requirements specification for such a was :

-Scheduling of works orders based upon capacity planning labour content of sales with production resources.
-Work tracking the progress or works orders based upon a computerised data capture system.
-The valuation of raw material, WIP and finished part stock interfacing with materials purchase orders.

Reporting on:
Productivity and resource utilisation.
Conformance to delivery and quality requirements.
Supplier performance.
Budget versus actual direct costs.

Integration of the production management system with other business systems such as sales and marketing, human resources and financial reporting.
The company in conjunction with the DDU selected Burnley based Profit Optimiser Enterprises Limited to undertake this work.

As Paul Briggs commented “the support we have received from the DDU has helped us to bring more structure and control to the business and allowed us to expand both turnover and headcount.”