Brisbane Manufacturing Reporting Rebuild
A manufacturer replaced workbook-heavy reporting with a cleaner operational and financial reporting model across plant, finance, and leadership reviews.
Industry
Manufacturing
Key outcomes
Business context
The client had finance, production, maintenance, and quality data spread across ERP exports, plant spreadsheets, and manually assembled management packs. Reporting existed, but confidence in the numbers was inconsistent and too much time was lost preparing and validating reports.
What was making reporting harder than it should be
Different teams were maintaining different KPI views
Weekly and monthly reporting depended on repeated Excel manipulation
Plant performance could not be reviewed alongside margin and cost drivers cleanly
Too much reporting knowledge sat with one person
What was built
A consolidated reporting model connecting ERP, production, maintenance, and quality inputs
Executive, operational, and variance dashboards designed for different review conversations
Cleaner KPI definitions across throughput, downtime, yield, labour, and margin
A reporting structure that reduced duplicated manual handling
What changed day to day
Leadership could move into the numbers faster, managers spent less time pulling data together, and weekly reviews became more useful because the conversation started with performance rather than reconciliation. Month-end reporting also became calmer because the pack no longer relied on a long chain of manual workbook steps.
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