Company background
Whiteghyll Plastics was established in Bradford in 1990 to supply acrylic fabricated products to high street retailers. The company has expanded into other areas of visual merchandising and now offers a full manufacturing facility from one self-contained unit. Whiteghyll now produces unique visual concepts from processes that include acrylic, timber and metal fabrication, screen printing and digital printing plus all manner of graphics applications.
“Berkeley Myles spent a lot of time listening to our needs and understanding our business.”
Why did the company choose ProgressPlus?
ProgressPlus combined estimating with shop, inventory control, invoicing and costing and was able to handle time and attendance recording combined with direct input for job sheets and was also very easy to use. The company was also impressed by the overall approach taken by Berkeley Myles Solutions.
Functions used
All features and functions
Benefits realised
- Reduced production delays – staff can now access job information directly on the shop floor using ProgressPlus which has saved around one man day per week in admin time in addition to speeding up the entire production process.
- Increased staff efficiency and effectiveness – job times are now recorded directly by staff saving two days per week in administration time; works orders are created as soon as an order is received reducing the order to production time by 50% and purchase orders are sent electronically to suppliers which has saved 15 minutes per order.
- Improved customer service and satisfaction – ProgressPlus has helped all of the departments within the company communicate more effectively – now everyone has access to information about a particular job, so the company can be more responsive to customer queries. The company now has much more of a handle on what’s happening in production based on real data which helps them deliver outstanding levels of customer satisfaction.