Polymr
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.

Tire compound mixing line

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
  • Email

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.

A revision, diffed across every open PO it touches.

The buyer team used to sweep open POs and work orders by hand on every BOM revision. Polymr does the diff against the prior BOM, marks each impacted line, and writes the cancel-update-new-purchase audit row for each one.

BOM diff · rev 7 → rev 8 · 4 of 19 impacted
SKU-1144 family · two plants
  • PMR-TIRE-RB220Compound blend mix 220, sulfur 1.6 phr1.4 phr1.6 phr3 open POs · 2 work orders
  • PMR-TIRE-WR114Wire bead diameter 14in0.94mm1.02mm5 open POs · 1 work order
  • PMR-TIRE-IN302Innerliner ply gauge1.05mm1.10mm2 open POs · 4 work orders
  • PMR-TIRE-LB008Sidewall label, regulatory mark v3rev 2rev 311 open POs · 0 work orders
21 open POs and 7 work orders touched. 0 missed. Audit trail attached to revision automatically.

Illustrative diff. Production runs hit 19 impacted components on average across a routine BOM rev pair.

What this looks like inside Polymr.

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

/execute/work-ordersWork orders touched by the revision
Polymr work orders view highlighting orders impacted by a BOM revision