FABCO Case Study: from 65% to 95% on-time delivery in 3 months

About FABCO

FABCO Ltd is a manufacturer specializing in serial production of precision mechanical parts. Founded in 2014, the company today operates with 43 employees and 30 high-technology machines across CNC milling, CNC turning, laser cutting, CNC bending and welding.

The Challenge

Before MRP One, all information — customers, orders, drawings, technical files, materials — lived in dozens of folders and Excel files scattered across the company. The consequences were predictable:

35% of orders missed their delivery deadline
A new quote took days to prepare
The production manager needed 10 minutes of file-digging to answer the question of an order's current status
The same shop-floor errors kept happening because no one had a single view of the process
Taking on new customers meant hiring more office staff — which was not in the plan

“All customer information, orders, drawings and other files were spread across many folders and different files.” — Valentin Methodiev, CEO of FABCO

The Solution: MRP One

What convinced FABCO to choose MRP One was the connected-data architecture — everything in the system is linked to the customer and to the part number/name:

Inquiry → Quote → Order → Production → Delivery — in a single flow
Drawings, work documentation, routings — attached to the part, not to a folder
Material orders and labeling — linked to specific production orders
Backwards traceability: which order used a given material batch — answered in seconds

“The system’s ability to unify all information and connect it across customers, orders, work documentation, material orders, and material labeling. Backwards traceability — as well as real-time — is excellent.”

Implementation

2 to 3 months — from project start to full system adoption across the team. For comparison, the average ERP implementation in a manufacturing company takes 6 to 18 months and often costs over €50,000 in consulting alone.

“We transitioned to the system relatively easily and quickly.”

The Results

Metric	Before MRP One	After MRP One	Change
On-time delivery	65%	95%	+30 pts
Quote preparation time	baseline	—	−70%
Errors and rework	baseline	—	−60%
Order status lookup time	10 min	1 min	−90%
Machine utilization	baseline	—	+60%
New client orders accepted without adding office staff	—	—	+10
Overall efficiency (owner estimate)	—	—	+60%

What the owner says

“MRP One brings convenience, transparency and reliability to every process — from quoting new parts, through real-time production monitoring, to traceability of completed orders, including material ordering and per-component traceability. All of it is accessible to anyone using the system within seconds.”

Valentin Methodiev — CEO, FABCO Ltd

Precision metalworking · 43 employees · 30 machines · Founded 2014

Is MRP One right for your shop?

MRP One works best for:

✓ Precision metalworking shops with 10–100 employees
✓ Mixed workcenters (CNC, laser, welding, press, fabrication)
✓ Serial or make-to-order production
✓ Complex flow: inquiry → quote → order → production
✓ Need for material traceability and quality control
✓ Shops that have outgrown Excel but find SAP/Microsoft Dynamics overkill

How FABCO went from 65% to 95% on-time delivery — in 3 months