Case Study: Wolverine Advanced Materials achieves 20% quality improvement and 30% inventory reduction with Plex Systems

Plex Cloud ERP Improves Wolverine’s Quality 20 Percent, Reduces Inventory 30 Percent

Wolverine Advanced Materials, a supplier of vibration-damping and sealing materials, was overwhelmed after 10–13% sales growth left its manual ordering, inventory, shipping, and scheduling processes strained. With complex multi-layer BOMs across plants in Virginia, Florida and Germany, lead times ballooned to 10 weeks, inventory counts were only reliable twice a year, and previous ERP attempts had failed amid user resistance.

Wolverine deployed the Plex Manufacturing Cloud ERP to add barcode-driven receiving, purchasing, production control and scheduling across the shop floor. The system delivered real-time inventory and job costing, cutting lead time to five weeks, reducing raw materials and WIP by over 30%, improving first-pass quality 15–20%, doubling aftermarket business, eliminating paper/AP issues, slashing overtime and inventory labor, and paying back packaging improvements in months.

Wolverine Advanced Materials