Moba: Eieren machinefabrikant

Moba aspires to be innovative and progressive, and thereby aims to pursue the lean manufacturing principle. This aspiration has lead the company to implement a new IT system that is more efficient on several fronts. The need for change was rooted in inefficient workings of the warehouse, which, prior to this change, formed a great bottleneck. Moba was faced with an over-organized ERP system that caused an overflow of administrative processing steps, leading to inconsistencies and excessive use of paper. Also, the company struggled with long lead times. “The routing of most products consisted of up to nine steps, the duration of which could take seven weeks,” recalls Jos Fessl, production and logistics director. Furthermore, the warehouse contained numerous half-fabricated products that were incomplete. There was also an excess of stock that was not organised in an orderly way. Consequently Moba came to the conclusion that it needed to make a radical change.