Manufacturing IT

Power BI for Manufacturing

Production, inventory and financial reporting that refreshes itself instead of being rebuilt every month.

What should a manufacturer measure in Power BI?

Start with the numbers leadership already argues about: production output against plan, scrap and rework, on-time shipping, inventory accuracy and turns, purchasing lead times, and margin by product line. Build those from ERP data with consistent definitions and automatic refresh before adding anything more elaborate.

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Dashboards we commonly build

  • Production output vs plan by line and shift
  • Scrap, rework and yield trends
  • Inventory valuation, aging and turns
  • Purchasing lead time and supplier performance
  • On-time shipping and backlog
  • Margin by product line and customer
  • Consolidated P&L across entities
  • Executive summary with a small, trusted metric set
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Definitions before visuals

Two departments will define 'shipped', 'complete' and 'scrap' differently, and a dashboard makes that disagreement visible immediately. Settling definitions is the first deliverable.

Common questions

Straight answers, no sales theater.

Can shop-floor staff see their own numbers?

Yes, with row-level security or dedicated reports, and often on a wall-mounted display rather than a login-based dashboard.

How current is the data?

It depends on the connection and refresh schedule. Scheduled refresh several times a day is typical; near-real-time is possible with the right architecture.

Schedule an IT assessment.

We review your network, security posture, cloud tenant and recovery plan, then hand you a plain-language report of what we found and what it means for the business.