Upside Innovations
Upside Innovations
Industry: Metal Fabrication
"We had no real-time tracking of performance, no ability to switch priorities within the shop without going to the Shop, searching for the work order, scribbling out a date and then telling the folks on the shop floor to work on something different."
Kevin Sharp
President
Upside Innovations got their start in 2009 when Founder and President Kevin Sharp envisioned creating better aluminum ramp systems than those currently available. He and his team initially focused on manufacturing and installing ADA-accessible aluminum ramps for modular buildings, but have since expanded their manufacturing talents to steps, canopies, and ramps for multi-level structures.
Today, they have five thriving facilities thanks to the hard work and dedication to the efficiency of their team. They all want to provide the best for their customers, so they chose MIE Solutions for their ERP software. Before MIE Trak Pro, they used a combination of Excel Spreadsheets and accounting software, but their business became too complicated to manage with these two systems.
Challenges
- Duplicate data entries
- Maintaining accurate inventory via manual methods of counting and verbal issuing of work orders, including leased products
- Running their growing business with Spreadsheets and stand-alone accounting
- Creating quotes for similar products with slight variations
Solutions
- Upside Innovations determined they would need an ERP system to facilitate growth in their company.
- By using MIE Trak Pro’s Accounting module, Inventory Management module, MIE Product Configurator, and other production-tracking modules, Upside Innovations can efficiently and consistently create custom orders, manage their warehouse, and scale up their business.
- “We are up another 50% in revenue since implementing MIE Trak Pro.” —Kevin Sharp, President
Value Added
- Robust inventory management that tracks raw materials and finished goods for selling or leasing to customers
- Reduce the amount of time it takes to quote a job and issue a work order
- Eliminate manual data entry
- Dashboards to view all reporting metrics in one place
“The overall visibility that we have of our business has improved a ton. Whether it is our operations team being able to quickly tell us when products will be available to ship or supervisors knowing exactly how efficient individual employees are performing or our sales folks knowing exactly how many new orders have been taken from companies in a specific industry, we have that information at our fingertips now.”
Kevin Sharp
President