HixonOps

Late orders · vendor slips · cash parked on the floor

Know before they call.

The vendor missed the material. Nobody on the floor said a word. Your customer found out when the parts did not show up. The information to catch it was in your building the whole time. It just was not in one place.

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Your customer knew it was late before you did. What if you saw it first?

Two ways an order slips

Both start days before anyone says anything.

The vendor slips

The bearing set runs out on the 21st and no PO is on its way. The job that needs it reaches Assembly that same week. Nobody on the floor knows until the operator is standing at an empty rack. By then the customer is already calling.

Purchasing screen: inventory outage warnings showing a bearing set that runs out Oct 21 before order RC-2434 reaches Assembly with no PO inbound, and powder that runs out Oct 23 with PO-7053 landing too late. Below, two orders waiting on vendors.
Material that runs out before the job reaches the cell, with the PO and the vendor date next to it.

The shop slips

Weld is booked past what the crew can run this week. Three jobs behind it are due Friday. The schedule in the ERP still says Friday, because the ERP does not know what is sitting in the queue.

Floor Overview capacity row: Saw/Cut 82 percent, Machining 128 percent, Press Brake 38 percent, Weld 123 percent, Paint 0 percent, Assembly 0 percent, Shipping 1 percent, each with hours queued against hours of capacity.
Hours queued against hours of capacity, every cell, for the next five working days.

What you see instead

The list before the phone rings.

Screens from the live demo. The shop and its numbers are demo data. Yours would show your orders.

Floor Overview: two material warnings and a list of late and at-risk orders. RC-2409 four days late, stuck behind Machining. RC-2411 and RC-2412 two days late, stuck behind Weld. Each shows due date and projected date.
Late and at-risk orders, with the reason. Every order that is late or about to be, the cell it is stuck behind, and the material it is waiting on. This is the list before the phone rings.
Order tracker with due date, projected date, and variance for every open order, such as 5 days late, on time, or 2 days early, plus the current cell and progress.
Projected ship dates from real capacity. Due date next to projected date for every open order, with the variance in days. Projected comes from the queue and the crew, not from the date someone typed in.
Dollars tied up: $155k sunk into work that has not shipped, broken down by work cell and by value stream against contract value.
The cash parked behind one small thing. Finished labor you cannot invoice because the job is waiting on a bearing set or a powder color. See what is parked, where it sits, and what it is waiting on, so the small thing gets chased today.

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What happens when you fill in the form

A demo built around your shop, not a slide deck.

  1. 01

    Tell us how orders slip today

    Who finds out first, how the vendor dates get tracked, and what the ERP shows when a job is behind. A few minutes on the form.

  2. 02

    We build the demo around your shop

    Your routings, your cells, your vendors, your order numbers. Not Rockcreek Fabrication. Yours.

  3. 03

    A short call to see if it would catch them

    We walk through the slips you told us about and show where the system would have flagged each one. You decide if it is worth building.

Built on the ERP you already have, in your cloud. Flat license, never per user. If it would not move your on-time delivery, we will say so on the call.

See if it would catch your slips.

Tell us how orders slip in your shop today. We build a demo of the tool around your routings and your vendors, then walk through it with you on a short call. You see whether it would flag the late ones before the customer does, and whether it gets the orders missing one small thing out the door.

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