Polymr
Plastics · case study

MRP runs against real inventory, not yesterday's.

Planners spent 9 to 12 hours per week reconciling inventory cycle counts, open POs, and in-process work before they could trust MRP output.

Injection moulding press line

At a glance.

Industry

Plastics

Injection-moulding plastics manufacturer, two plants

Outcome

2.1x

planning efficiency, freeing two planner-days per week

Source stack
  • NetSuite
  • Shop-floor scanners
  • Excel

The engagement, end to end.

Measured outcome from a live customer deployment.

The before-state

Planners spent 9 to 12 hours per week reconciling inventory cycle counts, open POs, and in-process work before they could trust MRP output.

What Polymr automated

Continuous reconciliation of inventory, open purchasing, and shop-floor production progress into a single planning context. Net requirements refreshed live. Exceptions surfaced for one-click release into NetSuite.

The measured outcome

2.1x. planning efficiency, freeing two planner-days per week. Measured outcome from a live customer deployment.

What this looks like inside Polymr.

The screenshot below is the live tenant view that powers the workflow described above.

/plan/workbenchPlanning workbench, live MRP
Polymr planning workbench with live net requirements and exception queue

The planner's week, before and after.

The same four feeds. Before Polymr they were stitched together by a planner on Friday afternoon. After Polymr the stitching is continuous, and the planner spends Friday on exception calls instead.

Planner activity heatmap · M–F, 1h grid
two plants · NetSuite + shop scanners
Cycle countsbefore · weekly batch · after · continuous
Open POsbefore · weekly batch · after · continuous
WIP scansbefore · weekly batch · after · continuous
Net requirementsbefore · weekly batch · after · continuous
Before

9 to 12 hours of reconciliation before MRP can be trusted.

After

Net requirements live. Planner time spent on exceptions, not joins.

Net

2.1x planning throughput. Two planner-days returned per week.