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Audit
Month 1
The order process mapped across three countries and eleven handoffs.
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Manufacturing and Distribution
Wooden Villa Ltd.
Quote cycle cut in half and order status visibility from factory floor to customer inbox.
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faster quote-to-order cycle
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systems connected into one order pipeline
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status calls escalated to management in the first 90 days
Sector
Manufacturing and distribution
Engagement type
Embedded advisory and implementation
Services deployed
Status
Ongoing, month to month
Challenge
Orders moved between a Canadian showroom, an overseas factory, and a freight chain, tracked through spreadsheets and late-night messages. Every customer status question triggered an internal scramble, and quoting new configurations took days because pricing lived in one person's head.
Approach
We audited the order process end to end, then built a connected order pipeline: structured quoting with a configurable pricing engine, production milestone tracking synced from the factory, and automated customer status updates at every stage gate. Management sees the whole pipeline; customers stop needing to ask.
The arc
How the engagement unfolded.
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Quoting engine
Month 2
Configuration pricing structured and approved by ownership.
03
Pipeline build
Months 3 to 4
Factory milestones, freight status, and customer comms connected.
04
Stay
Ongoing
Exception handling refined, new product lines added to the engine.
What we installed
- Configurable quoting engine with owner-approved pricing rules.
- Order pipeline connecting showroom, factory, and freight milestones.
- Automated customer status communication at stage gates.
- Exception alerts for at-risk orders.
- Management dashboard across the full order book.
Systems architecture
How the work actually runs.
These diagrams are illustrative reconstructions of the automation patterns behind this engagement. Client logic, vendor nodes, and data schemas stay confidential, so what you see is the shape of the system rather than the build itself.
Order pipeline, three countries, one view
Illustrative workflowWhat made it work
01
Pricing left one person's head and became a system the whole team can quote from.
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Customers were told before they asked. Proactive status updates emptied the phone lines.
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Exceptions route to people. The system flags risk; experienced operators decide what to do about it.
“Pricing used to live in one person's head. Now the whole team quotes from the same system, and we can see every order across three countries on one screen.”
Outcome
The order book is visible in one place, quoting runs on rules instead of memory, and customers hear about delays before they think to ask.
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