Sean and James are starting to have their new employee use ProShop to help with equipment maintenance.  They also talk about their estimating templates and how they realize how much it’ll make their lives so much easier.

Paul and the guys discuss ways they’ve found to better track inventory for finished goods, and for their hardware (and why they won’t need to throw away extras), how they’re starting to estimate some jobs, and understand estimating better.  Paul gives them some ideas to think about for estimating time budgets for their Xometry work and a few other things.

In week 3, Sean and James share their interest in getting ISO 9001 and AS9100 certified, after they had met last week with Kelly from the QMS team to learn about the QMS modules.

Sean and James are already jumping into the equipment module to solve some immediate shop needs they have to track their thread gauge inventory. They discuss some best practices with Paul around this topic and other new things they’re learning this week in the shop.

Activity

In this first episode, we get to know the brothers at Cerven Solutions, Sean and James, how they chose an ERP when they were just 2 employees, and what the onboarding process has been so far in the first few of weeks. We talk about their trainer, Kevin, who’s a machinist by trade and also used to use ProShop at a machine shop he worked at, so he’s a perfect trainer for them.

We also get into the topic of the Small Machining Business Facebook group that James started just a couple of years ago, which now has 13k members! 

Chad and his team are starting to see impactful improvements and changes as they really get running on ProShop. Chad has seen a 13% improvement in on-time delivery in the past couple of months. They have also seen a reduction in front-end lead times from approximately 2 weeks to less than 24 hours in some cases. Chad also shares that a lead from the stamping department has shared that she loves seeing the targets and tracking time, which has led to reduced setup reduction times. These are the types of improvements that ProShop promises to deliver, so it’s great to see those results happening.

Chad shares what he would have told himself if he could go back and advise himself at the beginning of an ERP implementation. Then Chad and Paul get into the topic of employee onboarding and training and share a template of how to manage that process in ProShop.

Heather and Paul discuss how ProShop has made it much easier to maintain material traceability, streamline accounting, improve their inventory, and a lot more.

Listen to the third episode in the series as Paul and Chad discuss next steps for Hibshman Screw Machine.

Listen to the second episode in the series as Paul and Chad discuss work orders, the process of organizing their org chart and more.