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How to Build a Manufacturing Dashboard

Manufacturing dashboards offer a real-time snapshot of the state of your production processes. The goal is to provide decision-makers with a fast, easy way to access KPIs and other important insights. Crucially, this replaces the need to manually crunch numbers each time you need the figures in question. Any time we set out to build dashboards, the biggest challenge is getting all of the different data that we need into one location, formatted compatibly.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 10, 2023

How to Build a Supply Chain Dashboard

Supply chain dashboards provide much-needed access to real-time insights about a whole range of interrelated inventory, cost management, and procurement processes. The challenge is getting all of the data we need in one place and compatible formats. Today, we’re exploring how Budibase empowers teams to build custom dashboards around all kinds of existing data sources. Along the way, we’ll see how we can create and save custom queries to transform data and present the results in professional UIs, with minimal design skills.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 10, 2023

How to Build an Inventory Calculator

Managing inventories - especially the finances surrounding them - can pose serious challenges and create mountains of admin work. Custom inventory calculator apps are a powerful solution. We might need to regularly perform calculations around stock changes, valuations, efficiency, warehouse utilization, or other KPIs. The trouble is that these kinds of calculations are often deceptively complex - with many of the figures we need stored in different locations, in different formats.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 10, 2023

How to Build a Procurement Dashboard

Sourcing raw materials and handling incoming stock are some of the most fundamental challenges that logistics teams face. The right procurement dashboard can make all the difference here. See, a huge part of the problem is visibility. Procurement processes draw on a number of different types of data - across inventories, supply chains, finances, and more. Without unified, coherent reporting, it’s almost impossible to make sense of all of this.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 2, 2023

How to Build Inventory Automations with Budibase

Inventory automation is potentially the most transformative tool that logistics teams have at their disposal. See, managing inventories can be incredibly tricky - owing largely to the complexity of the data and processes involved. Not only does this make it difficult to understand the current state of our inventory - it can also create mountains of administrative work and introduce unnecessary scope for error. Inventory automation seeks to address all three of these problems simultaneously.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 2, 2023

How to Build Project Cost Management Software

In the fast-paced world of project management, having real-time insights into your financial situation is not just a luxury, it’s a necessity. Therefore, effective project cost management software is too. Every penny counts, and understanding where it’s been spent can be the difference between a project’s success and failure. But beyond just tracking project costs, what if you could effortlessly add new cost data? How do you seamlessly integrate this financial tracking into a database you may already use?

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 2, 2023

How to Build a Warehouse Dashboard

If you carry physical products - your warehousing solutions are right at the center of your business. Warehouse dashboards provide much-needed visibility into your performance across a huge range of KPIs. Situations can change quickly - so it’s critical that decision-makers have fast, reliable access to important insights. Dashboards are the perfect solution for furnishing teams with repeatable reporting - while also eliminating the need for manual analytical work. Today, we’re going to see how Budibase can be used to build custom dashboards around existing data sources - saving your team hours of development work at the same time.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 30, 2023

How to Build a Vendor Request Form

Vendor request forms are a key part of managing inventories, supply chains, and procurement processes - specifically when it comes to registering new suppliers. However, this can also create a huge amount of administrative work for logistics and finance teams alike. In particular, handling vendor requests manually or with pen and paper can lead to excessive data entry, validation, and other admin tasks. Today, we’re checking out how you can use Budibase to digitalize your vendor request forms with minimal custom coding skills.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 27, 2023