Most manufacturing plants that utilize ERP solutions, still face a large disconnect between the production floor and the enterprise floor. This lack of visibility and automation at the plant floor was significantly affecting a specialty chemicals company to troubleshoot their operational bottlenecks, implement quality checkpoints, enabling six-sigma efforts and meeting compliance requirements (GMP, ISO, EPA and OSHA).

While ERP systems can track any inputs systematically, there are still a lot of steps that need to take place in order to generate the inputs that are fed into ERP systems. These steps currently generate a large paper trail and the data collected through these paper trails could not be analyzed.

Amicus implemented their flag-ship product, eQuill, which is the first Manufacturing Execution System that digitizes all this paper trail data, enabling manufacturing plants to save time in generating inputs, ensuring accuracy, maintaining compliance and most importantly, enabling the company to receive real-time updates of plant floor level activity.