Gemba Concepts
For Ceramic Manufacturers & Vendors

Can You See What's Happening From Production to Dispatch — In Real Time?

Identify the visibility and control gaps across production planning, inventory, warehousing and dispatch.

See how much time your team spends every month on manual order updates, stock checks, dispatch coordination and customer follow-ups across different customers.

Warehouse team loading pallets of ceramic tiles onto a dispatch truck with a signed dispatch note

Free · Takes 2–3 Minutes

Customer Order Coordination Calculator

Find out how much time your team is losing to manual follow-ups, duplicate entry and customer-specific order processes.

Sample Customer Order Coordination Calculator result showing manual coordination hours, equivalent working days, customer follow-ups, biggest friction and estimated avoidable effort

Use a few simple details about your operation to estimate:

  • Monthly coordination hours
  • Working days spent chasing information
  • Customer follow-up volume
  • Duplicate-entry effort
  • Biggest source of operational friction

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The Ceramic Vendor Control Tower

Manage customer orders, production, stock and dispatch in one working Excel view.

Preview of the Ceramic Vendor Control Tower Excel dashboard and order-master tracker

A ready-to-use Excel tool for tracking:

  • Customer POs
  • Production status
  • Shade / calibre requirements
  • Stock allocation
  • Dispatch readiness
  • Documentation
  • Customer updates
  • Risk flags
  • Next action

It also includes a Customer Workflow Map to help identify how many different portals, emails, WhatsApp conversations, spreadsheets and manual follow-ups are currently being used across customers.

Find Where the Time Is Actually Going.

Gemba works on the floor to trace the flow

from finished stock to gate-out

Searching. Rehandling. Staging gaps. Documentation delays.

Small delays. Repeated across every dispatch.

Gemba consultant and plant supervisor reviewing the SOP for tile production against raw material, process and quality checkpoints

Less searching. Less handling. Less waiting. Faster dispatch.

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