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The new 123MRP system went live within 19 days of training, and works order throughput has been reduced by 50% and lead-times overall reduced by 10-20%. .

F&P are keen advocates of both lean manufacturing and lean accounting, therefore minimising the processes and paperwork involved from order to invoice is critical. Phil Boffin, commercial manager commented: "123MRP has been instrumental in reducing the lead-time throughout all departments; from order entry, planning right through to invoicing. For example, we noticed an immediate improvement in the way we can despatch and invoice our customers. Previously one despatch note would require one invoice. If we take the rollover kit for the World Rally Car, which comprises of 60 items, this might be delivered in several drops - with 123MRP this can appear on a single invoice. As a result we are generating at least 100 invoices less per month.

Although F&P had developed a comprehensive range of reports with their previous MRP system, writing them was a time-consuming and cumbersome process, requiring complicated macros to be written to link back to MRP to obtain new data. 123MRP now allows dynamic manipulation of data in real-time. "For us the flexibility of the reporting was a key factor in the decision to choose 123MRP.

Demands change as to what we want to see daily and we can now easily work with live data. There are many reports we can do now that we couldn't before and we are still learning the depths of how far we can analyse data."

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