Manufacturing Solutions - Astral Insights

Manufacturing

Maximize Efficiency and Output

We empower manufacturing companies to proactively manage disruptions with AI solutions deeply
integrated into core operational processes.

We empower manufacturing companies to proactively manage disruptions with AI solutions deeply integrated into core operational processes.

Areas of focus

Demand Forecasting

Our AI models deliver accurate demand forecasting at a SKU and customer level by blending historical trends with rich contextual data. This allows for proactive adaptation to changing customer demand, reducing inventory costs and improving customer satisfaction.

S&OP

Our solutions facilitate efficient, collaborative planning by integrating rich data sets, identifying and predicting trends, and providing personalized insights to cross-functional stakeholders. This not only improves task coordination, but ensures resources are allocated effectively to cut costs and drive growth.

Scenario Planning

Our AI-driven solutions harness vast internal and external data sets, analyzing hundreds of "what-if" situations to help you anticipate and navigate disruptions. By simulating a wide variety of scenarios, your teams can make proactive decisions, minimize risk, and maintain resilience in a dynamic environment.

PO & Shipment Tracking

Our AI-powered tracking systems provide intelligent estimated time of arrival (ETA), improving supply chain visibility and allowing for better coordination and planning across procurement, production, and logistics teams.

Contract Management

Using AI to analyze contract terms, we assist in streamlining contract management and identifying potential risks. This reduces the administrative burden and helps ensure that contractual obligations are met consistently.

Supplier Risk Management

We apply continuous data monitoring to assess supplier reliability, performance, and compliance. By detecting early signs of supplier risk, we help our clients proactively address potential disruptions.

Performance Management

Our integrated performance analytics solutions allow client teams to evaluate financial and operational performance against key metrics, ensuring optimal supplier relationships and driving continuous improvement.

Predictive Maintenance

With AI-enabled predictive maintenance, we forecast equipment failures based on real-time data, helping reduce unplanned downtime and extend the life of assets. This improves both production efficiency and asset utilization.

Predictive
Quality

We integrate predictive quality models into production processes to identify potential quality issues early in the production process. This enables proactive intervention to maintain high-quality standards and reduce scrap.

Inbound Logistics Visibility

Our real-time inbound logistics monitoring equips the production team with access to tracking data for every PO and incoming shipment. By closely monitoring all inbound goods, the team can identify any delays or disruptions before they affect warehouse operations.

Scheduling Optimization

Our scheduling optimization solutions use AI to create and automatically adjust efficient production timelines, balancing resources and demand to maximize throughput and minimize bottlenecks.

Route
Optimization

AI-powered route optimization reduces transportation costs and improves delivery times, creating more efficient logistics routes that adapt to real-time market conditions.

Shipment and Load Tracking

Real-time shipment and load tracking solutions keep stakeholders informed of shipment status, enabling better decision-making to maintain optimal inventory levels and keep customers satisfied.

Inventory Optimization

By using AI to optimize inventory, we help companies maintain optimal stock levels, reducing excess/obsolete inventory and ensuring adequate safety stock. This supports cost-effective production and warehousing.

Performance Management

Our performance analytics tools measure warehouse and logistics operations, helping businesses identify inefficiencies and actionable areas to improve overall supply chain performance.

Predictive Customer
Service

Predictive customer service leverages AI to anticipate customer needs and proactively address issues before they arise, reducing response times and improving customer satisfaction.

Customer Service
Chatbot

We develop tailored bots that understand your operations and customers, handle routine customer inquiries 24/7 with no hallucination. This ensures immediate responses to common questions, reduces wait times, and allows your team to focus on strategic, value-add activities.

Automated Order Status Notifications

We provide real-time updates on order statuses and any changes. By keeping clients informed throughout the entire process, we significantly reduce the number of inbound inquiries regarding order status.

Anomaly
Detection

Our AI-powered anomaly detection solutions leverage vast contextual data sets to spot and predict anomalies, allowing you to take appropriate action to prevent fraud, and improve efficiencies.

Forecasting and Budgeting

AI-driven forecasting and budgeting solutions provide precise financial projections that account for changing environmental factors and customer demand, enabling better financial planning and decision-making.

Gross-to-Net Automation

We automate complex financial processes, such as gross-to-net calculations, to reduce manual work and improve accuracy in financial reporting and reconciliation.

EPM
Insights

Enterprise Performance Management metrics are calculated in real-time and shared with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between financial goals and operational performance.

"The team at Astral has transformed our data into a set of world-class tools. The entire Astral team is insightful, responsive, and speedy."

Brian Evans, CFO

Success Stories

Manufacturing | AI-Enabled PO Tracking

Reducing Downtime by 22%

Learn how we helped our client anticipate and respond to inbound PO delays, allowing for more effective production planning and improved customer satisfaction.

Transportation

Supercharging Performance

Our Client faced extended delivery times, employee turnover, and declining revenue growth in the months following the pandemic recovery. These challenges presented a ripe opportunity...

Retail

Advancing Through Analytics

In the post-Covid environment, customer needs and buying patterns began to shift rapidly. Our Client’s executive team was focused on increasing sales in underperforming customer..

Retail

Intelligent Cost Takeout

We partnered with our Client to deploy a cloud-based platform to monitor and anticipate cost trends in real time, reducing operational expenses over the following 12 months.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing a Digital Edge

The Client is a leading specialized manufacturer looking to improve operational efficiency, inventory management, and product pricing to combat mounting inflation and turbulent supply chains.

Food & Beverage

Institutionalizing Analytics

The client is a rapidly-growing provider of prepared meals. Their team faced pricing challenges and lacked a holistic approach to systematically managing and improving performance.

Our end-to-end approach

Assess & Strategize

We start by gaining a deep understanding of your current operations and pinpointing areas where disruptions lead to reactive responses. By evaluating these challenges through an ROI lens, we prioritize the most impactful opportunities and craft a tailored roadmap for improvement.

Build & Implement

Collaborating closely with your end users, we adopt an iterative build cycle that places their insights at the heart of the solution. This user-centric approach ensures the final product seamlessly fits your team's needs and workflows.

Scale

We deploy the solution to a broader audience within your organization, meticulously managing adoption to maximize impact. Recognizing that successful implementation hinges on user engagement, we focus on strategies that promote widespread acceptance and sustained use.

Learn why leading companies are using AI for proactive PO tracking

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Manufacturing

Maximize Efficiency and Output

We empower manufacturing companies to proactively manage disruptions with AI solutions deeply integrated into core operational processes.

We empower manufacturing companies to proactively manage disruptions with AI solutions deeply integrated into core operational processes.

Areas of focus

Demand Forecasting

Our AI models deliver accurate demand forecasting at a SKU and customer level by blending historical trends with rich contextual data. This allows for proactive adaptation to changing customer demand, reducing inventory costs and improving customer satisfaction.

S&OP

Scenario Planning

PO & Shipment Tracking

Our AI-powered tracking systems provide intelligent estimated time of arrival (ETA), improving supply chain visibility and allowing for better coordination and planning across procurement, production, and logistics teams.

Contract Management

Using AI to analyze contract terms, we assist in streamlining contract management and identifying potential risks. This reduces the administrative burden and helps ensure that contractual obligations are met consistently.

Supplier Risk Management

We apply continuous data monitoring to assess supplier reliability, performance, and compliance. By detecting early signs of supplier risk, we help our clients proactively address potential disruptions.

Performance Management

Our integrated performance analytics solutions allow client teams to evaluate financial and operational performance against key metrics, ensuring optimal supplier relationships and driving continuous improvement.

Predictive Maintenance

With AI-enabled predictive maintenance, we forecast equipment failures based on real-time data, helping reduce unplanned downtime and extend the life of assets. This improves both production efficiency and asset utilization.

Predictive Quality

We integrate predictive quality models into production processes to identify potential quality issues early in the production process. This enables proactive intervention to maintain high-quality standards and reduce scrap.

Inbound Logistics Visibility

Our real-time inbound logistics monitoring equips the production team with access to tracking data for every PO and incoming shipment. By closely monitoring all inbound goods, the team can identify any delays or disruptions before they affect warehouse operations.

Scheduling Optimization

Our scheduling optimization solutions use AI to create and automatically adjust efficient production timelines, balancing resources and demand to maximize throughput and minimize bottlenecks.

Route Optimization

AI-powered route optimization reduces transportation costs and improves delivery times, creating more efficient logistics routes that adapt to real-time market conditions.

Shipment and Load Tracking

Real-time shipment and load tracking solutions keep stakeholders informed of shipment status, enabling better decision-making to maintain optimal inventory levels and keep customers satisfied.

Inventory Optimization

By using AI to optimize inventory, we help companies maintain optimal stock levels, reducing excess/obsolete inventory and ensuring adequate safety stock. This supports cost-effective production and warehousing.

Performance Management

Our performance analytics tools measure warehouse and logistics operations, helping businesses identify inefficiencies and actionable areas to improve overall supply chain performance.

Predictive Customer Service

Predictive customer service leverages AI to anticipate customer needs and proactively address issues before they arise, reducing response times and improving customer satisfaction.

Customer Service Chatbot

We develop tailored bots that understand your operations and customers, handle routine customer inquiries 24/7 with no hallucination. This ensures immediate responses to common questions, reduces wait times, and allows your team to focus on strategic, value-add activities.

Automated Order Status Notifications

We provide real-time updates on order statuses and any changes. By keeping clients informed throughout the entire process, we significantly reduce the number of inbound inquiries regarding order status.

Anomaly Detection

Our AI-powered anomaly detection solutions leverage vast contextual data sets to spot and predict anomalies, allowing you to take appropriate action to prevent fraud, and improve efficiencies.

Forecasting and Budgeting

AI-driven forecasting and budgeting solutions provide precise financial projections that account for changing environmental factors and customer demand, enabling better financial planning and decision-making.

Gross-to-Net Automation

We automate complex financial processes, such as gross-to-net calculations, to reduce manual work and improve accuracy in financial reporting and reconciliation.

EPM Insights

Enterprise Performance Management metrics are calculated in real-time and shared with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between financial goals and operational performance.

Demand Forecasting

Our AI models deliver accurate demand forecasting at a SKU and customer level by blending historical trends with rich contextual data. This allows for proactive adaptation to changing customer demand, reducing inventory costs and improving customer satisfaction.

S&OP

Scenario Planning

PO & Shipment Tracking

Our AI-powered tracking systems provide intelligent estimated time of arrival (ETA), improving supply chain visibility and allowing for better coordination and planning across procurement, production, and logistics teams.

Contract Management

Using AI to analyze contract terms, we assist in streamlining contract management and identifying potential risks. This reduces the administrative burden and helps ensure that contractual obligations are met consistently.

Supplier Risk Management

We apply continuous data monitoring to assess supplier reliability, performance, and compliance. By detecting early signs of supplier risk, we help our clients proactively address potential disruptions.

Performance Management

Our integrated performance analytics solutions allow client teams to evaluate financial and operational performance against key metrics, ensuring optimal supplier relationships and driving continuous improvement.

Predictive Maintenance

With AI-enabled predictive maintenance, we forecast equipment failures based on real-time data, helping reduce unplanned downtime and extend the life of assets. This improves both production efficiency and asset utilization.

Predictive Quality

We integrate predictive quality models into production processes to identify potential quality issues early in the production process. This enables proactive intervention to maintain high-quality standards and reduce scrap.

Inbound Logistics Visibility

Our real-time inbound logistics monitoring equips the production team with access to tracking data for every PO and incoming shipment. By closely monitoring all inbound goods, the team can identify any delays or disruptions before they affect warehouse operations.

Scheduling Optimization

Our scheduling optimization solutions use AI to create and automatically adjust efficient production timelines, balancing resources and demand to maximize throughput and minimize bottlenecks.

Route Optimization

AI-powered route optimization reduces transportation costs and improves delivery times, creating more efficient logistics routes that adapt to real-time market conditions.

Shipment and Load Tracking

Real-time shipment and load tracking solutions keep stakeholders informed of shipment status, enabling better decision-making to maintain optimal inventory levels and keep customers satisfied.

Inventory Optimization

By using AI to optimize inventory, we help companies maintain optimal stock levels, reducing excess/obsolete inventory and ensuring adequate safety stock. This supports cost-effective production and warehousing.

Performance Management

Our performance analytics tools measure warehouse and logistics operations, helping businesses identify inefficiencies and actionable areas to improve overall supply chain performance.

Predictive Customer Service

Predictive customer service leverages AI to anticipate customer needs and proactively address issues before they arise, reducing response times and improving customer satisfaction.

Customer Service Chatbot

We develop tailored bots that understand your operations and customers, handle routine customer inquiries 24/7 with no hallucination. This ensures immediate responses to common questions, reduces wait times, and allows your team to focus on strategic, value-add activities.

Automated Order Status Notifications

We empower manufacturing companies to proactively manage disruptions with AI solutions deeply
integrated into core operational processes.

Predictive
Quality

Route
Optimization

Predictive Customer
Service

Customer Service
Chatbot

Anomaly
Detection

EPM
Insights

Predictive
Quality

Route
Optimization

Predictive Customer
Service

Customer Service
Chatbot

Anomaly
Detection

EPM
Insights

Intelligent Cost Takeout

Manufacturing a Digital Edge