Manufacturing & Distribution
Stock readiness for hotel supply contracts
Hotel amenity-kit supplier · 2 locations
- kit versions built from shared parts
- 30
- sites in one stock view
- 2
- marked ready or short
- Every client
Overview
This supplier makes 30 versions of hotel amenity kits from a shared pool of parts, so one missing component can affect several contracts at once. A readiness dashboard now shows, for each client, whether the next order can be filled and what needs to be made or bought.
Pain points
- A single low component could hold up several contracts.
- Stock that looked available had often already been promised to another order.
- Stock was managed from memory, Excel and phone calls to the store.
What we built
- 01
Readiness dashboard
For each client: whether the next order can be filled, how short it is if not, and which material is holding it up.
- 02
What we can make today
Only counts raw material that hasn't already been allocated to another order.
- 03
Make or buy
Tells the team what to produce or purchase to get each client back to ready, and forecasts each client's next order.
- 04
Stock entry on a phone
The store, production and dispatch teams log movements from a phone screen with large buttons. Kit recipes deduct materials automatically.
How it works
- 01Stock logged
- 02Materials deducted
- 03Readiness per client
- 04Shortage flagged
- 05Make or buy
Before
Shortages were found out when the client called.
After
Contracts at risk show up at the top of the list weeks before the order.
