Tires and rubber · case study
Engineering revisions that propagate to purchasing automatically.
Every BOM revision required a manual sweep of open POs and work orders. Two of every ten revisions missed an affected order, surfacing later as a quality or yield problem.
At a glance.
Industry
Tires and rubber
Industrial tire and rubber goods maker, two plants
Outcome
100%
revision-to-PO coverage, audit-grade traceability
Source stack
- Epicor Kinetic
- SolidWorks PDM
The engagement, end to end.
Measured outcome from a live customer deployment.
The before-state
Every BOM revision required a manual sweep of open POs and work orders. Two of every ten revisions missed an affected order, surfacing later as a quality or yield problem.
What Polymr automated
New revision diffed against the prior BOM, every affected open PO and work order identified, cancel-update-new-purchase recommendation per line, full audit trail attached to the revision.
The measured outcome
100%. revision-to-PO coverage, audit-grade traceability. Measured outcome from a live customer deployment.
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