Project management software for manufacturing industries
It takes innumerable convoluted processes to modify raw materials into a finished product—and that's just the start. Leave the hard work to Zoho Projects, our powerful manufacturing project management software that can automate your workflows, conquer disruptions, and help release high-quality products.
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Common challenges facing the manufacturing industry
Quality has left the chat
Consistency in quality is fundamental to any manufacturing firm. But this is easier said than done. Poorly managed workflows, a lack of automation, inaccurate demand forecasts, and the absence of risk management can set off a domino effect, leading to dissatisfied customers and, ultimately, tainted brand reputation.
Cybersecurity in jeopardy
While you use digital tools to create products your customers love, you also run the risk of being exposed to cybersecurity threats that can cost your highly sensitive data and manufacturing processes dearly, placing product quality and data integrity in peril.
Today's weather: Unknown demand forecast
Sometimes, erroneous demand forecast calculations can leave your project hanging by a thread, significantly impacting inventory, throughput, and financial planning. Consequentially, revenue suffers, and customers are left discontented.
Supply chains fail to deliver
The steady functioning of a supply chain warrants efficient inventory management, a robust risk management plan, minimal wastage, and end-to-end visibility. While a lean lean Six-Sigma approach can certainly help, unprecedented environmental and geopolitical friction can often be devastating, giving rise to unforeseen losses, decreased efficiency, and low-grade deliverables.
Industry-specific solutions
Process manufacturing industries
Distinct raw materials are combined here and undergo repetitive processes to manufacture identical finished products. Food, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries can all benefit from project management, which helps with constant supervision and automation of workflows.
Discrete manufacturing industries
Distinct, identifiable end products are created here—automobiles, construction materials, toys, furniture, clothes and more. Project management can help with setting cost-cutting measures and quality standards, as well as establishing proper inventory control.
What manufacturing industries need
Lean manufacturing
Reduced wastage and enhanced efficiency help roll out end products of unparalleled quality.
Efficient management
Periodic inventory checks, close monitoring of workflows, budget control, and continual improvement processes minimize product defects and inconsistencies.
Data analytics
To stay ahead of the game and keep customers satisfied, investing in software that analyzes current data, predicts future trends, and spots bottlenecks along the way is essential.
Automated workflows
Introducing automation to manufacturing operations reduces human error, latency, and lead time, ensuring only high-grade products make it to the conveyor belt.
Rigid security measures
Potential security lapses can be prevented and sensitive data can be safeguarded by conducting regular training sessions and implementing security policies.
How Zoho Projects gets you there
Whatever your need, our blueprints and workflow rules streamline your supply chains and assembly lines and automate repetitive tasks, so you can consistently deliver quality to customers, as promised.
The Feed, Forum, and Discuss modules relay information through chats and team audio and video calls, keeping everyone on the same page, so you never miss a beat, and nothing slips through the cracks. Speedily communicate wastage, latency, or downtime and receive instant feedback.
A central warehouse for compliance and quality control documents, bills of materials, SOPs, and work orders, our Documents module securely houses your critical folders. Waste no time slumped over a pile of paperwork, rummaging for that one important document, when you can find everything you need in one place, any time. Manage preferences and grant access permissions only to personnel you trust.
The Workload Report module zooms into the tasks allocated to every person in your workforce, allowing you to swap tasks according to individual ability, making way for a fair work distribution system and a kaizen-friendly workforce.
Gain actionable insights into your performance and stay aligned with your predetermined quality metrics. Our intuitive Reports module gathers real-time end-to-end updates that can be downloaded and circulated, increasing visibility into progress and aiding in risk mitigation on the go. And if you're seeking reports dense with comprehensive analytics, you can easily integrate with Zoho Analytics.
Leverage the Gantt chart, for an illustrative representation of your processes, and the kanban board, to meticulously track and seamlessly progress from one process to another with a simple drag-and-drop. Minimize risk, wastage, and defects while simultaneously increasing efficiency, consistency, and quality.
Your journey to creating stupendous manufacturing projects begins here
Manufacture products of the highest quality with our predefined manufacturing industry template, that's customizable enough to adjust to your organization's unique specifications.
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