$50,000/year in Labor Savings From Eliminating Manual Entry.
A frozen meat distributor replaced error-prone manual data entry in Dynamics NAV with barcode scanning and real-time analytics.
The Challenge
Manual entry draining time and accuracy
This food distribution company was running Dynamics NAV for its core operations, but production order entries and labor journal postings were entirely manual. Staff spent hours each day keying in data from paper-based records.
The volume of manual entry created a steady stream of errors — miskeyed quantities, duplicate entries, and missed journal postings that cascaded into inaccurate costing and unreliable production reports.
The operations team knew the data was unreliable, which meant they spent additional time cross-checking numbers before making any decisions. The result was a slow, expensive, and error-prone process that couldn't scale.
The Solution
Barcode scanning and real-time dashboards
Barcode Scanning Integration
Custom-built barcode scanning solution that captures production order data at the source — on the production floor — and posts directly to Dynamics NAV in real time.
Automated Labor Journals
Labor journal entries are now generated automatically from scanned production data, eliminating the need for manual time tracking and data re-entry.
Real-Time Analytics Dashboards
Built custom dashboards that give operations managers live visibility into production throughput, labor allocation, and cost-per-unit metrics.
Accurate Costing
With clean data flowing directly from the floor, production costing reports finally reflect reality — enabling confident pricing and margin analysis.
The Results
Hard savings and reliable data
$50K
Annual labor savings
Zero
Manual entry errors
Real-time
Production visibility
Eliminated hours of daily manual data entry from production floor
Production costing reports now accurate and trustworthy
Operations managers make decisions from live dashboards instead of stale spreadsheets
ROI achieved within the first quarter of deployment
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