Vitacore Improves On-time Order Fulfilment by 70%
Vitacore Improves On-time Order Fulfilment by 70%
For Vitacore, orders are rolling in without a break. Therefore, Katana’s auto booking system perfectly solves their inventory issues, calculating required materials in real-time. While also highlighting when stocks are running low. That means Vitacore no longer has to worry about having the right materials available.
"Katana provides us with all the necessary features for manufacturing order management. Furthermore, we can track inventory usage and incorporate our sales order tacking into Katana.”
— Mikhail Moore
CEO at Vitacore Industries
Company Profile
Company Profile
Vitacore manufactures locally made and sourced masks and respirators to help North Americans stay safe so we can all return to the normalcy of everyday life. Vitacore is a joint venture comprising Canadian doctors, scientists, engineers, and business leaders. Their goal is to manufacture toward the common good of North Americans.
Vitacore is the first Canadian manufacturer authorized by Health Canada, Manufacturing locally in Burnaby B.C. Using raw materials, Vitacore provides PPE of uncompromising quality and fair price, creates local jobs, maintains a responsive and steady supply, and acts sustainably for Canada's environment.
Challenges
Challenges
Vitacore does an ever so important deed - taking care of the front-line worker safety during the global pandemic. The front-line takes the first and the worst hits in any dangerous situation. Therefore having a proper and safe defense is an utmost priority. To help them focus on providing reliability and safety to their customers, Vitacore needed more control over the back end of their manufacturing.
The main areas they set out to improve were:
- Batch tracking for individual orders;
- Inventory and product management; and
- Matching manufacturing orders with prospective sales orders.
Why Katana?
Why Katana?
Vitacore came to Katana straight from using spreadsheets and has stuck with it ever since. When asked about the other solutions they tried out, they said testing others wasn't necessary since Katana was satisfactory enough.
"Katana provides us with all the necessary features for manufacturing order management. Furthermore, we can track inventory usage and incorporate our sales order tacking into Katana.”
How Katana Helped
How Katana Helped
With around 70 people working on the shop-floor level, production planning is an essential part of successful manufacturing management. On top of that, being a safety product provider, Vitacore needs to make sure its items are fully traceable, which has been possible with the batch tracking feature.
Since joining Katana, Vitacore has been enjoying:
- A boost of close to 80% in material inventory management;
- 40% improvement in production planning and scheduling due to optimization;
- On-time order fulfillment has increased by more than 70%.
For Vitacore, orders are rolling in without a break. Therefore, Katana’s auto booking system perfectly solves their inventory issues, calculating required materials in real-time. While also highlighting when stocks are running low. That means Vitacore no longer has to worry about having the right materials available.
Katana is a cloud-based software designed specifically for small and mid-sized manufacturers. The scalable SaaS platform caters to manufacturing companies requiring a robust and effective production planning, scheduling, and inventory control system to manage their production.
