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Making a morning MIS trustworthy

CLIENT: Industrial manufacturing facility. Anonymised

A control layer that establishes whether every number in a daily management report is timely, traceable and authorised, before any of it gets automated.

Executive daily MIS dashboard consolidating plant management figures. The client's branding is blurred.
// overview

The daily management review runs on numbers nobody can fully vouch for. Values arrive late, come from three systems that disagree, or are typed in by hand with no named owner. Automating that directly does not fix it; it just makes the wrong number arrive faster, with more authority behind it.

So the work starts a step earlier. Every parameter in the morning MIS is mapped: its definition, its owner, its source system, its cut-off time, the transformations it passes through and the path by which it gets reconciled. Each one is then classified: automate from an existing source, reconcile between sources, controlled manual input, or a new capture mechanism is needed. Only what has been proven trustworthy gets automated.

// specs
Output
Parameter register, source and ownership map, readiness matrix, dependency register
Method
Per-parameter classification: automate / reconcile / controlled manual / new capture
Sources
SAP at department level, departmental Excel sheets, and capture mechanisms for the values entered by hand
Out of scope
Plant-wide IoT and system replacement
// what it does
01

Every parameter in the morning report mapped to a definition, an owner and a source system

02

Cut-off times recorded per parameter, so lateness is visible rather than assumed

03

Transformations and reconciliation paths traced from source to reported value

04

Each parameter classified: automate, reconcile, controlled manual input, or new capture needed

05

A readiness matrix that says which numbers are safe to automate and which are not yet

06

Integration at department level with SAP and departmental Excel sheets, plus capture for the values still entered by hand

// how it runs
SAP / EXCEL / MANUAL CAPTURE → RECONCILIATION → REPORT
  1. SAP (dept)
  2. Excel sheets
  3. Manual capture
  4. Reconciliation
  5. Control layer
  6. Morning report
// how we worked
01 / Diagnose

Took the morning report apart line by line and asked, of each number, who owns it, where it comes from and by when it is supposed to exist.

02 / Ship

The register, the source and ownership map and the readiness matrix: the artefacts that decide what is safe to automate.

03 / Scale

The readiness matrix sets the order: what is proven trustworthy gets automated first, and nothing gets automated on faith.

Reviewing numbers nobody can vouch for?

Bring the workflow and the number it affects. A reply within one business day.

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// end of case study · Making a morning MIS trustworthy