Manufacturing & production guides

Manufacturing ERP in the Philippines: a guide for plant and operations leaders

What Philippine manufacturers need from an ERP: planning, job orders, shop floor recording, materials, costing, quality, warehouse and finance.

5S implementation: a step-by-step guide for plants, warehouses and offices

How to implement 5S (Sort, Set in order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) step by step, with red tags, visual standards, a scoring audit and tips to make it last.

Bill of materials (BOM): structure, accuracy and management

What a bill of materials contains, single vs. multi-level BOMs, scrap and yield factors, accuracy, revision control and how the BOM drives planning.

Daily production report template: what to record and how to use it

A practical daily production report template for Philippine plants: output vs. plan, scrap, downtime, labor, materials and issues, and how to review it.

Food manufacturing software: traceability, batches and compliance

What Philippine food manufacturers need from software: recipes, batches, lot traceability, expiry, quality records, recall readiness and costing.

How to evaluate production management software: a demo guide for manufacturers

How to evaluate a production management system with a realistic demo: planning, job orders, floor processing, productivity, costs and product movement.

Job order costing: how to know what each production job really cost

Job order costing explained: materials, direct labor and overhead per job, overhead rates, a worked example, variances and how to collect accurate data.

Lean manufacturing for Philippine plants: a practical starting guide

Lean manufacturing basics for Philippine plants: the eight wastes, 5S, value stream mapping, standard work, visual management and sustaining improvement.

Machine downtime tracking: reason codes, cost and reduction

How to track machine downtime on the production floor: planned vs. unplanned stops, reason codes, micro-stops, the cost of downtime and a reduction routine.

Make-to-order vs. make-to-stock: choosing a production strategy

Compare make-to-order, make-to-stock and assemble-to-order strategies: lead times, inventory, planning, costing and what each means for your systems.

Mold and tooling management for manufacturers

How manufacturers manage molds, dies and tooling: mold register, shot counts, preventive maintenance, storage, customer-owned molds and records.

MRP explained: material requirements planning with a worked example

How MRP works: gross requirements, netting, lot sizing and lead-time offsetting, with a worked example and the data quality MRP depends on.

OEE and production KPIs: measuring plant performance

How to calculate OEE (availability, performance, quality) with a worked example, plus the production KPIs plant managers should review every shift and week.

Piece-rate pay in Philippine production: rules, computation and controls

How piece-rate pay works in the Philippines: minimum wage, holiday pay, 13th month pay, computation examples and production records for payroll.

Production cost control: finding and fixing the money leaks in a plant

Control manufacturing costs with standard costing, material, labor and overhead variances, scrap and yield tracking, downtime costs and a monthly cost review.

Production planning and scheduling for Philippine manufacturers

Turn demand into a feasible production plan: master scheduling, capacity checks, material availability, sequencing, frozen windows and schedule adherence.

Quality control in manufacturing: inspections, nonconformance and corrective action

Build a practical quality control system: incoming, in-process and final inspections, nonconformance handling, CAPA, traceability and quality KPIs.

Raw materials inventory control for Philippine manufacturers

Keep raw materials available without overstocking: planning from BOMs, lead times for imports, issuing to jobs, lot and expiry control, counts and slow-moving stock.

Scrap and rework tracking: measuring and reducing quality losses

How to record scrap and rework at the source, calculate scrap rate, first-pass yield and cost of poor quality, and run a reduction program on the floor.

SMED and quick changeover: cutting setup time on the production floor

How to apply SMED to reduce changeover time: measure the current setup, separate internal and external work, convert, streamline and standardize, with an example.

Takt time and line balancing: matching production to demand

How to calculate takt time, compare it with cycle times, balance work across stations, compute balance efficiency and fix bottlenecks, with worked examples.

Toll manufacturing in the Philippines: how it works and how to control it

How toll manufacturing works for brand owners and tollers in the Philippines: materials ownership, yield reconciliation, quality, regulatory and system controls.

Work-in-process tracking: knowing where every job is on the floor

How to track work in process across production stages: what to record, mobile, line and countertop recording, WIP inventory, bottlenecks and job status visibility.

Production management

Run production planning, job orders and processing workflows alongside productivity, performance, cost and movement monitoring. Connect production to purchasing, warehouse inventory and deliveries as your operation grows.

Warehousing & logistics

Manage branch inventory, logistics, deliveries, production deliveries, transfers, supplier returns and valuation. Follow products across locations as your warehouse network expands.

Purchasing & procurement

Manage account, singular, classical, local and warehouse purchasing workflows with payment monitoring and purchase history. Connect purchasing to supplier records, stock and payables.

Improvement portfolio

Run improvement projects within Business Compass using dedicated workspaces for DMAIC, DMADV, PDCA, CAPA, Kaizen, Lean, FMEA and project management. Link improvement work to the business direction, process and measure it supports.