The Production Management
Production Management Consulting Helping industrial and service businesses plan, control, and optimize operations.
Production management is at the heart of every industrial or service-based company. It involves planning, monitoring, and controlling operations to ensure efficiency, productivity, and quality.
Companies across industries face similar operational challenges:
- Inventory control and raw material supply
- Workforce scheduling and availability
- Machinery breakdowns or staff shortages
- Complex logistics or service coordination
- Balancing demand with available resources
With the right production management system (such as an ERP), these issues can be addressed with automation, real-time visibility, and better decision-making.
What is production management?
It’s the structured process of planning, monitoring, and optimizing the transformation of inputs (raw materials, people, data) into outputs (finished goods or services).
Whether in manufacturing or services, the goals remain the same:
- Increase efficiency
- Control costs
- Guarantee quality
- Meet deadlines
In modern production, this often includes ERP systems and performance indicators for real-time decision-making.
Why is Production Management Important for Your Business?
Good production management ensures:
- Cost control (purchasing, production, logistics)
- Full traceability (visibility at every step)
- Customer satisfaction (on-time delivery and service)
- Informed decision-making (real-time KPIs and dashboards)
Without it, businesses risk delays, inefficiencies, and lost clients.
Production Management Software
Production Management Software Modern ERP tools like Odoo, Divalto Infinity help companies streamline their operations by:
- Automating repetitive tasks
- Managing technical data (BOMs, workflows, service packages)
- Monitoring productivity and costs in real time
- Enhancing traceability and decision-making with live dashboards
With ERP, production becomes smarter, more transparent, and easier to manage.
What Solutions Can AB Consultant Provide?
Our mission goes beyond basic audits or diagnostics. We work hands-on with your teams to identify bottlenecks, guide process improvements, and transfer our expertise.
Our core services include:
1. Organizational diagnosis and change management
- Analyze and fix dysfunctions
- Support transitions (growth, new processes, restructuring)
- Manage organizational change
2. Consolidate the supply chain
- Improve supplier management
- Deploy Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
- Implement or optimize an ERP software
- Better production monitoring
3. Deployment of a lean management approach
- Reduce waste (time, space, cost, defects)
- Improve customer satisfaction
- Train staff and guide teams through lean projects
Support includes staff training and management of lean projects. Whatever the mission, our consultants prioritize hands-on support and knowledge transfer to your teams.
Our Consulting Process
AB Consultant follows 5 key phases:
- Discovery and needs analysis with the client
- Diagnosis (documents, interviews, site visits)
- Root-cause analysis & recommendations
- Feedback + action plan with management
- Deployment with the teams
Cost Optimization: Boosting Profits while Cutting Expenses (Cost Reduction Strategy)
Production Management Beyond Industry
When people think of production management, they often imagine factories, assembly lines, and physical goods. But the principles of production management also apply to the services sector.
- In hospitality, production management ensures that rooms are cleaned on time, check-ins are smooth, and guest experiences meet expectations.
- In IT or consulting, it means delivering projects on schedule, allocating staff efficiently, and ensuring consistent quality in deliverables.
- In healthcare, it ensures patient flow is optimized, resources are allocated properly, and services meet compliance standards.
In short, whether you produce cars, meals, or IT solutions, production management is about transforming inputs (people, time, resources) into outputs (products or services) efficiently and effectively.
Experienced Consultants with Sector Expertise
Our consultants bring years of management and field experience across industries such as:
- Logistics & transport
- Aerospace & defense
- Automotive & rail
- Shipbuilding
- Energy & nuclear
- Food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals
- Electronics & construction
They are familiar with both operational realities and strategic implementation.
What Are Best Practices to Optimize Production Management?
- Automate repetitive tasks with ERP software
- Set deadline reminders
- Make schedules visible and updated in real time
- Standardize best practices across teams
- Focus on real-time KPIs for decisions and reporting
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Our Solutions and Services to Help You Improve Your Business
Ready to Optimize Your Operations?
Do you want to optimize the monitoring and analysis of your production management tasks in real time? Are you looking for a management solution adapted to your production cycles and your manufacturing constraints? Develop your industrial potential by using performance indicators to control stocks and costs, have useful traceability, improve customer satisfaction and analyze production quality.
Get a free quote and discover how AB Consultant can help you:
- Monitor production in real time
- Track inventory and costs
- Guarantee on-time delivery
- Improve customer satisfaction
- Gain full traceability across your value chain
AB Consultant advises and accompanies you to improve flow management by guaranteeing the respect of delivery deadlines, from the generation of the production order to the delivery through planning.
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