Factory & Supply Chain
Planning, stock and cost on one set of records
across plants, warehouses and entities
Manufacturers compete on cost, quality and delivery while coordinating suppliers, plants and customers in several countries. Production, procurement, warehouse and finance work from one shared platform that InterCloud implements and integrates with the shop floor, so management sees events as they occur.
Challenges
Challenges in Manufacturing
Planning across plants and suppliers
Material requirements, capacity and lead times change daily. When planning is kept in spreadsheets, procurement orders more than necessary as a precaution and production still waits for parts.
Inventory accuracy
Raw materials, work in progress and finished goods across several warehouses and plants must be counted, valued and traced by lot or serial number, including goods held in bonded or free-zone facilities.
Quality records and traceability
Customers and auditors expect inspection records, non-conformance handling and lot genealogy from incoming material to shipped product, frequently in the format that a specific customer prescribes.
Costing based on actual consumption
Standard costs diverge from actual costs as material prices, yields and overtime change. Finance requires product costing that reconciles to real consumption and real labor hours.
How We Help
Plan, Produce and Cost From One Set of Records
Enterprise platform
GlowScale
Plan from current stock and demand and know the actual cost of each product. Bills of materials, production orders, material requirements planning, multi-warehouse inventory with lot and serial tracking, quality inspection, product costing, procurement and finance with e-invoicing run in one ERP.
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Digital experience
Orbio
Give dealers and customers current product information and a place to order. Orbio runs corporate and product websites, dealer and customer portals and B2B ordering, with technical documentation and catalogs maintained in one place and published in several languages.
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Monitoring
SnowTrack
Alerts reach the plant IT team before a line stops. SnowTrack monitors ERP, MES and shop-floor integrations, EDI links with customers and suppliers and the infrastructure beneath them.
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PDPA consent & privacy
TrustFlow
Keep the personal data of employees, supplier contacts and customers under one PDPA consent record. TrustFlow stores who agreed to what, when and through which channel, apart from the ERP's main database, and produces the report an audit asks for.
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AI
InterCloud AI
See how demand, yield, scrap and supplier performance are developing, and let staff ask about procedures, specifications and order status and receive answers from your own data.
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Our Approach
Production Recorded as It Happens
An ERP that is updated after the event serves only as a reporting tool. We integrate GlowScale with your MES, machines, barcode and weighing systems so that production confirmations, material consumption and quality results are recorded as they occur.
Inventory is tracked by lot or serial number across warehouses, plants and subcontractors, which makes lot genealogy and customer-specific quality reports a by-product of normal operations.
Where a group operates several entities or countries, multi-company finance with intercompany transactions and local tax requirements keeps consolidation manageable.
- MRP and production scheduling from current inventory and demand
- Lot and serial traceability from receipt to shipment
- Quality inspection and non-conformance handling within the process
- Actual costing reconciled to real consumption and labor
Outcomes
Typical Outcomes
Manufacturers typically engage InterCloud to achieve the following outcomes.
- Production planned from current inventory and demand data held in the ERP
- Accurate stock figures across warehouses, plants and subcontractors
- Lot genealogy and quality records produced on request for customers and auditors
- Product costs that reflect actual material, yield and labor
- Fewer line stoppages caused by failed integrations or missing data
- Management visibility across plants and group companies in one dashboard
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you replace our MES or work alongside it?
In most cases we work alongside it. GlowScale handles planning, inventory, costing and finance and integrates with your MES or machine data through open REST APIs and standard interfaces. Where a plant has no MES, GlowScale's production confirmations can cover that function.
Can the platform handle several companies and countries?
Yes. Multi-company finance with intercompany transactions, multi-currency and country-specific tax and invoicing is part of GlowScale, and the platform is used by groups that operate in more than one country.
How long does an implementation take?
The duration depends on scope, the number of plants and the amount of integration involved. We phase implementations so that a first plant or module goes live early and the remainder follows, which avoids a single large cut-over.
Discuss your plant with our team
Describe how you plan, produce and ship today. Our team will explain how GlowScale fits your process and your existing systems.