The plant is not slow. The hand-overs are.
Process mining across SAP, MES and planning – plan, make and deliver measured as one process.
The schedule was respected. The order still shipped late.
Planning runs nightly while orders change hourly, so the shop floor works from yesterday’s picture.
Released on one packaging engagement
3.1M
Euro of working capital released against evidence, not instinct.
-22%
Safety stock on affected lines, with no stockouts.
11
Weeks from first extract to the signed decision.
Reorder points were protecting a lead time that had already shortened.
Safety stock and reorder points had been calibrated for supplier lead times that improved two years earlier. Nobody recalibrated, because nobody could prove the new lead time across four systems.
The event log proved it in three weeks, and the buffer was released line by line rather than by policy.
Buffers are opinions until the log prices them.
Which line would you like to see clearly?
One plant, one process, a read-only extract.