The count that never closes at month end
The balance points at the movement, the period and the material, instead of at a single missing number.
MMS
Materials and inventory
The problemInventory that does not close, and losses with no explanation.
intellifix · Materials and inventory
Materials home
What it does
Inventory that closes, and the loss with a name.
What comes in, what goes out and what is lost, with mass balance by tolerance.
- Mass balance by tolerance
- Tracking of inflows, outflows and losses
- Alerts for stock and off-range consumption
Real screens
This is the product, not a mockup.
Screens captured from the running app, with demonstration data.
intellifix · Materials and inventory
Materials home
intellifix · Materials and inventory
Mass balance
How it works
From the data that comes in to the decision that goes out.
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Movements are recorded
Inflows, outflows, transfers and returns come in per material, with where and when.
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Real consumption meets expected
What the order consumed is compared with what the formula said it should consume.
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The balance closes by tolerance
Mass balance per material and period, with a tolerance that says what is noise and what is loss.
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What is out of range raises an alert
Stock below the point, consumption above the band, and the movement that explains it.
Requirements
What it takes to go live.
Data it needs
Inventory movements
This is the hard requirement. Without it, the capability has nothing to read.
What the plant needs
- Inventory movements, from the system or from the floor.
- Unit and conversion per material.
- A tolerance per material, so the balance means something.
- Where each material is stored, and who moves it.
Where it acts
The stage of the plant this capability lights up.
Delivered results
What becomes possible.
- Every inventory gap has a movement, a period and a material behind it.
- Loss stops being one line in the closing and becomes something the shift can act on.
- Consumption above the formula shows up while the campaign is still running.
- Planning and quality read the same material position, so nobody argues about which number is right.
Examples of use
On the floor, it looks like this.
A silo consuming above the formula
Three percent over shows up as an alert while the campaign runs, not in the closing.
A lot gets blocked by quality
The block follows the material through the movements and nobody uses it by accident.
Benefits by role
What each person gets out of it.
Operation
Sees stock, movement and where each material is without opening three systems, and records what left the warehouse on the same screen.
Quality and process
Follows a blocked lot through every movement and compares real consumption against the formula, material by material.
Management
Closes the period with the balance already explained, and sees which material is draining margin before the closing.
Integrations
It does not work alone.
Every capability reads from and feeds the others. What this one exchanges inside the operation:
IPM
Monitor the process
Consumption measured at the process stage gives the balance a number that does not depend on somebody typing it.
Open capability
PLAN
Plan production
Material on hand constrains the sequence. There is no point planning an order the plant cannot feed.
Open capability
QCP
Quality and deviations
Blocked material stays blocked in the movement, so a lot on hold is not consumed by mistake.
Open capability
MMS
Want to see this on your own data?
Bring the movements of one material and its tolerance. In the demo we close the balance in front of you.