Every operational surprise, seen in the week it happens.
See where capacity is short, what it costs and what it does to the plan while you can still change the schedule — from the production, scheduling, quality and inventory systems you already run.
Operations runs on schedules. Finance runs on a ledger. They meet once a month.
Work orders, shifts and yield live in production and scheduling systems. Quality issues have their own log, inventory sits in the ERP and the plan is a finance spreadsheet. The translation between them happens at month end, in a variance report.
When leadership asks why margin slipped, or whether the plant can take on a new order, the challenge isn't finding the data. It's tying what the floor actually did to what the plan assumed, finding where throughput is bound, and putting a cost on it.
The result is a plan that assumes capacity the floor cannot deliver, and a floor working to a schedule nobody has costed — discovered a month after the week it could have been fixed.
Translated at month end in a variance report.
Operations, in practice.
Operational forecasting
Demand, volume and capacity projected on the same drivers as the financial forecast, so the two cannot diverge.
Capacity and constraint analysis
Where throughput is actually bound — machine, shift, skill or material — and what it costs to relieve it.
Schedule integrity
Scheduled versus actual hours reconciled continuously, with exceptions — missed punches, overnight shifts, no-shows — flagged and explained rather than silently absorbed.
Production and yield
Work orders, runs, scrap and rework tracked against standard, with cost impact attributed.
Quality management
Defects, holds and corrective actions tracked as work, with the recurring ones surfaced as risk.
Operational risk
Supplier reliability, single points of failure and downtime patterns escalated into the risk register.
From your systems to a decision.
The bottleneck is no longer where the plan assumed.
Scrap on one line rises three weeks running. Farsight DS attributes the lost output to that line, finds it is now the constraint on the product mix in the forecast, and prices the lost margin — so the decision is about the line, not the month-end variance.
- MESLine 3 scrap 2.1% → 6.4%Three consecutive weeks
- Farsight DSYield loss attributed to the lineAgainst standard
- CapacityLine 3 is now the constraintFor two product families
- ForecastMargin −$62K this monthAt the current mix
- DecisionMaintain, re-route or re-planFinancial impact attached
Want to see this against your own data?
What ships inside Operations.
From your systems to a working solution.
Farsight DS works on top of what you already run. Nothing is replaced.
Connect
Connect the systems, documents and information the business already uses.
Configure
Shape Farsight DS around your requirements, processes and data.
Validate
Review the data, assumptions, models and outputs before anyone relies on them.
Launch
Put it into production.
Need help redesigning the process itself? Farsight DS services can take it from process design through implementation, training and adoption.
Implementation servicesOperations on its own is useful. Connected, it is a different product.
Start with Operations and the systems you already run. Each module below adds context the others can use — none of them is a prerequisite.
Frequently asked questions.
Which operational systems does it connect to?
Production and MES, ERP, scheduling, time, quality and inventory — normalised into one model alongside the financials.
How does it tie operations to the financial plan?
Demand, volume and capacity are projected on the same drivers as the financial forecast, so the operational and financial views cannot diverge.
What happens to schedule exceptions?
Scheduled and actual hours are reconciled continuously, and exceptions — missed punches, overnight shifts, no-shows — are flagged and explained rather than silently absorbed.
Does Farsight DS replace our ERP, CRM or other systems?
No. Your ERP, CRM, HRIS, operational systems and document repositories stay where they are and remain where the work gets done. Farsight DS reads from them and connects the information across them.
Do we have to license the other products?
No. Every product is useful on its own, and none is a prerequisite for another. Each one you add gives the others more context, so start with the one you need and add more when they create value.
See Operations against your own data.
A 30-minute strategy session: we map how your systems connect and identify where this would pay for itself first.