The March Visibility Shock: When Plants See the Whole Picture Only Once a Year
Every March, a familiar pattern begins to appear inside many manufacturing plants. Stores team begin recounting inventory. Accounts team starts asking for updated WIP numbers. Production supervisors try to close long-running jobs, while purchase team revisit old purchase orders and...
The January-March Trap: Carrying Old WIP Into a New Financial Year
For many Indian manufacturers, what happens between January and March often decides whether your audit is smooth or painful when the financial year closes on March 31. Hence January doesn’t feel like a fresh start. It feels like the beginning...