Creating a real-time Key Performance Indicator dashboard with GainSeeker Suite

The Operations Manager for a leading manufacturer of electronic operator interface solutions faced a critical issue: the lack of timely access to essential business metrics such as monthly sales goals, gross profit margin, on-time deliveries, and first pass yield targets. This deficiency made it challenging to meet production goals while maintaining quality. The company had critical data stored in its ERP system (AS400), but extracting and formatting this data required special queries and manual processing in spreadsheets, which was cumbersome and time-consuming. As a result, the necessary information was often not available in a timely manner, severely hampering the manager's ability to make informed business decisions. The Operations Manager envisioned a solution where he could turn on his computer every morning and review a daily dashboard of the company's critical business metrics, generated automatically, with the ability to drill down into more detailed information as needed.

Hertzler Systems has been a leader in Statistical Process Control (SPC) software and Six Sigma for over twenty-five years. They provide the leading real-time data acquisition and analytics SPC software, the GainSeeker Suite. Hertzler Systems serves a diverse customer base, including prominent companies such as BAE Systems, Crown Audio, McCormick & Company, Inc., Hormel Foods Corporation, Snyders of Hanover, Titleist & Footjoy, IDEX Corporation, and TaylorMade-Adidas Golf Worldwide. Their software and services enable clients to connect, collect, analyze, and visualize data, building a data infrastructure for making data-driven decisions. These capabilities help clients improve throughput and yield, enhance cycle times, reduce costs and errors, and increase profitability.