Operations and labour cost visibility for a leading French industrial manufacturer

The Challenge

A specialist manufacturer of in-motion weighing and metering equipment — serving the mining, construction aggregates, food processing, chemicals, and plastics industries — had no real visibility into what was happening on the shop floor. Labour costs, shift performance, and production output were all tracked locally in spreadsheets. Monthly cost reviews were slow and inconsistent, and there was no reliable way to know whether the site was running efficiently or quietly absorbing overruns month after month.

Our Approach

The work was focused on a single manufacturing site. Data from the payroll system, production floor records, and the scheduling tool were brought together into a unified operations model structured around cost centres, shifts, and production runs.

Two views were built from the same data: a shift-level view for operations managers with near real-time labour cost per unit and overtime tracking, and a finance-level view with the monthly rollup and the ability to drill into specific cost centres and time periods.

Automated variance alerts were added to flag when labour cost per unit drifted from target — so management received the signal during the month, not at close.

Key Deliverables

• Site-level operations data model covering labour, production output, and cost centres
• Shift-level dashboard for operations managers with near real-time cost-per-unit tracking
• Finance dashboard with monthly rollup and cost centre drill-down
• Automated variance alerts for labour cost and overtime thresholds
• Monthly executive summary auto-generated from live data

Results

Engagement

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