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1. The Problem

Food Manufacturer’s ERP system used standard costing models with assumptions that often varied up to 50% from reality. With sales demand exceeding capacity, management needed to decide which orders to accept or decline, but ERP data couldn’t reliably show true profitability by SKU.

2. The Solution:

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[ Operational                 [FrameworX DashboardsAreas (15+) ]
   ?? FrameworX               (Costing AnalysisSite (local)
       Drivers: Altus / GE / Siemens / Rockwell / OPC DA
       History & Alarms |(standardized)
       Per-area synoptic /           [Data Integration]Local operations
       Store & Forward / Scripts
       TCP/IP   Historical + Real-time
             & Serial
              |
        ???????????????????????????????????????
        |                  |                  |
   [D365 ERP]         [GE MES]        [GE Historian]?
[ Energy Center ]
    (Cloud)      (Plant Applications)  (Production Data)FrameworX Enterprise (Central)
       Area |Consolidation
       Corporate Hist/Alarms
       Integrations (OPC / |DB                  |/ APIs)
        ???????????????????????????????????????Redundancy (HA)
                           |?
                   [Rockwell PLCs]?
   Clients (SC / Web              (Shop Floor)/ Mobile)
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Integrated real production data from MES, historian, and ERP with costing models to determine actual cost per SKU. Data included:

  • Raw material consumption

  • Packaging usage

...

  • OEE and production states

FrameworX dashboards visualized this costing intelligence, enabling sales and operations to base decisions on actual margins rather than ERP standards.

Technical Specifications:

  • ERP: Microsoft D365 (Cloud)

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