Improved production visibility reduced costs by 10%
10%
LBU Inc
Driving Efficiency Across the Manufacturing Lifecycle
Client
LBU Inc
LBU Inc. Is The Largest Manufacturer Of Cut And Sewn Product
Industry
Manufacturing
Engagement
Manufacturing Operations Digital Transformation
Region
North America
Duration
Ongoing
01. Background
LBU Inc. is a leading U.S.-based manufacturer specializing in custom promotional products, branded merchandise, bags, and packaging solutions. Serving customers across diverse industries, the company manages complex manufacturing processes. It involves multiple departments, inventory locations, suppliers, and outsourced production partners.
LBU needed a centralized platform to streamline production workflows, inventory, procurement, and reporting due to massive demand. They simply wanted to improve visibility, eliminate manual processes, and build a scalable digital foundation.
02. Challenges
First and foremost, managing production across multiple departments created operational bottlenecks. There was limited visibility into work-in-progress tasks.
Moreover, their team used to rely heavily on manual coordination for different tasks. Either they had to track production orders, inventory consumption, procurement activities, and outsourced jobs, all of which were too time-consuming.
Without a centralized workflow system, monitoring production status, maintaining inventory accuracy, and controlling operational costs proved increasingly difficult. Even worse, once the number of orders grew, LBU found it very important to have a scalable solution to automate, improve collaboration, and make better decisions.
03. Requirements
- Centralized Operations – Unify production workflows, inventory management, procurement, and reporting.
- Workflow Automation – Automate job routing, order processing, and department-level workflow execution.
- Inventory Visibility – Enable real-time tracking and automated stock consumption monitoring.
- Supplier & Procurement – Streamline supplier, contractor, purchase order, and outsourced job management.
- Operational Insight – Improve visibility, cost control, and manufacturing efficiency company-wide.
04. Technologies
Microsoft .NET
ASP.NET
MySQL
AWS
05. Solutions
Based on their requirements, Matech Co designed and implemented a cloud-based Manufacturing Operations Platform up to the mark.
We worked extremely hard to ensure it aligns with their production environment, production planning, inventory management, procurement, and reporting. Moreover, our Custom Bill of Materials workflows let administrators define department-specific production routes and automate job progression through each stage.
Other than that, our solutions covered everything from production order management and job lifecycle tracking to picklist generation, inventory synchronization, supplier and contractor management, purchase order processing, and outsourced job tracking.
Also, real-time dashboards inside it give teams visibility into order status, production workloads, pending jobs, and low-stock alerts. Meanwhile, reporting lets management monitor inventory transactions, purchasing activity, and production efficiency.
Hosted on AWS and powered by .NET and MySQL, this platform delivers all they require from scalability and real-time access to manufacturing data.
06. Results
Centralized job tracking made coordination 3x faster
3X
Automated inventory synchronisation accuracy by 35%
35%
Workflow automation reduced work by 60%
60%