Empiraa GPS for manufacturing
Plant targets and strategy, finally in the same place.
Empiraa GPS connects a manufacturer’s growth, efficiency, quality and safety goals to the people who run the plants. Every target has an owner, improvement ideas reach the plan, and leaders see which goals are behind pace each week.
- Set up with your plan
- Unlimited users
- 30-day pilot
The challenge
The plant runs on shift reports. The strategy runs on a slide deck.
Production numbers are tracked closely. The strategic priorities that change those numbers often are not.
What gets in the way
Improvement projects stall
Efficiency and quality projects start strong, then lose their owner to the next breakdown.
Metrics in plant systems
The numbers live in production systems, far from the plan they are meant to move.
Plants and head office apart
Each site runs its own priorities, and head office sees them at month-end.
Floor ideas get lost
Operators know what would help, but there is nowhere for the idea to go.
How GPS helps
From the boardroom to the production line.
How it works for manufacturing
Targets measured against pace
Set efficiency, quality, safety and output targets as objectives with dates. GPS shows each one against where it should be today, with its actions and owner.
- Progress against expected pace
- Actions, notes and files on each objective
- Values sent from your own systems through the API
Continuous improvement, connected to the plan
Collect ideas from every shift on an Improvement Plan board. People vote and comment, leaders move ideas from review to implemented, and the best become part of the plan.
Owners across every plant
Map plant managers, operations and support teams in the Accountability Chart, and see where one leader is carrying too much.
Reports from live data
Write board and leadership reports straight from the plan, with each goal’s progress against where it should be.
Built for how you work
Made for businesses with more than one line to run.
What manufacturers get
API and webhooks
Send KPI values from plant systems into GPS.
See the APIXero integration
Budgets and actuals next to the plan.
See the Xero integrationUnlimited users
Bring in supervisors and team leads without seat costs.
iPhone app
Check-ins and updates from the floor.
Rollout
Live in weeks, with our team doing the heavy lifting.
Implementation and training are included in every plan, so your leaders spend their time on the strategy, not the software.
How a rollout runs
Load the business plan
Your strategy becomes goals, objectives and actions, each with an owner.
Map plants and teams
We build your Accountability Chart and connect the systems you already run.
Set the rhythm
Check-ins and meetings for your leadership team, and training for your leaders.
First report from GPS
Your next leadership or board report comes straight out of GPS.
Start with one plant’s leadership team.
Run a 30-day pilot with one leadership team, using your real plan, before you roll GPS out further. We agree the pilot terms with you in the demo.
Leadership teams running their strategy in Empiraa GPS
Who it’s for
For the people who run the business.
By role
Questions
Questions manufacturers ask.
Does GPS replace our ERP or production systems?
No. Keep the systems that run production. GPS runs the business plan, and your systems can send KPI values into it through the API. See the API.
Can we track efficiency, quality and safety targets?
Yes. Each target becomes an objective with a start date, a due date and an owner, and GPS shows whether it is on pace.
How do improvement ideas reach the plan?
People add ideas to an Improvement Plan board, vote and comment. Leaders move the best from review to implemented, and they can become goals, objectives or actions.
We run several plants. Does that work?
Yes. Map each plant in the Accountability Chart, and every plan includes unlimited users.
Can we try it first?
Yes. We run 30-day pilots with one leadership team, using your real plan. We agree the pilot terms with you in the demo. See how pricing and pilots work.
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See GPS running a plan like yours.
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