10 Projects. All On Edge. And You Have To Find A Supplier Too

Morning meeting. 10 projects. Each one urgent. Each one “has to be now.”

And somewhere in between, you still have to find a supplier for that specific part no one wants to make.

I Know That Feeling

In construction, it was like this every day.

Materials in a flash. Meetings. Everything on edge, down to the minute. 10 projects simultaneously. All feasible in production - but no timely input.

Cut sheets for carriers? Waiting. Why? Because there are 10 projects on one sheet and they’re all rushing.

And you? You’re the manager. You have to solve this.

This Happens Every Day

Production managers are usually very overloaded.

They know they need to move forward with development. But they’re breaking down right here - with all the optimization, these things show.

Pressure from all sides. Can’t put something in. Can’t release the line for a prototype. Don’t know if it’s feasible.

And then an emergency comes.

On an excavator, the entire series of buckets needs to be changed. Geometry doesn’t match. Material doesn’t match. Customers are complaining.

Engineers draw. Send to production. And there it stops.

Machines filled to the end. Two shifts. Can’t be done.

What Most People Do (Wrong)

The whole production stops. For one piece.

Or they search for a supplier. 1 day of searching. Explaining to everyone what, how.

And in the end? Maybe you find someone. Maybe they make it. But the delay is already there.

You saved the €100,000 machine from stopping. But you burned out in the process.

There’s A Better Way

Without calls. Without searching. Without “do you know anyone.”

Just a solution.

There’s a solution.