Case Study: Freedom Finishing achieves faster turnaround, reduced waste and shutdown prevention with Sortly

This Industrial Finishing Company Saves Time, Reduces Waste and Avoids Costly Shutdowns with Sortly

Freedom Finishing, a Michigan-based industrial powder coating and electrocoating company with 60+ employees and a 24-hour turnaround promise, was hampered by pen-and-paper inventory tracking that risked costly plant shutdowns (for example, a 10-day lead time on electrocoat) and wasted time, materials and institutional knowledge. To solve this, they adopted Sortly’s inventory management app.

With Sortly, Freedom Finishing implemented a paperless, visual inventory and asset-tracking system featuring shared syncing, customized reorder alerts, item notes and embedded safety data sheets. The change cut the senior tech’s time spent hunting for items from roughly half his day to answering requests instantly, eliminated paper waste, improved safety (SDS accessible in about 60 seconds) and helped avoid stockouts and expensive shutdowns—delivering measurable time and cost savings thanks to Sortly.

Freedom Finishing

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