Stanco Metal Stamping ERP: Plex Visibility & Traceability

Stanco Metal Products used a legacy ERP system with little real-time visibility into inventory, accounts, or production. Office staff carried paper job books to the production floor, and scheduling reached only two weeks ahead. Stanco also lacked reliable part traceability from production to delivery. These are the problems described in Rockwell Automation's September 25, 2024 case study. The source does not identify Stanco's customer industries, company-size category, or certification status.

Stanco implemented Plex ERP. According to Rockwell Automation, production teams gained live access to schedules, replacing physical job books. Tooling staff could prepare jobs months ahead, while shipping and receiving could see upcoming orders. The account also describes visibility into inventory and accounts receivable and payable. It does not describe an AI or machine-learning method, implementation duration, or project cost.

Rockwell Automation reports two specific workflow changes at Stanco:

• Planning horizon: scheduling expanded from two weeks ahead to months ahead, with real-time schedule access across departments. The source does not quantify on-time delivery, throughput, or paid planner hours saved.
• Part genealogy: a produced part's serial number could be traced through production to its original material receipt. The source does not quantify investigation time or recall cost.

The account describes easier coordination across production, tooling, shipping, and receiving. It provides vendor-reported capability and workflow evidence; it does not establish independently measured financial returns or an AI result.

Use the Stanco case to prepare an ERP demonstration with your own jobs and parts:

• Show one schedule shared by production, tooling, shipping, and receiving. Change a job and check who sees the update, when tooling is ready, and how exceptions are handled.
• Choose a finished-part serial and trace it through production to its original material receipt. Then test the reverse lookup from receipt to affected parts; that reverse test is an evaluation question, not a reported Stanco result.
• Ask how the scheduling improvement was measured and what implementation time, cost, training, and recurring fees were required. Those inputs are absent from this source, so it cannot support an ROI calculation.

Compare the evidence for other planning interventions in the production-planning evidence matrix. For a broader pilot and benefit calculation, use the production-planning and scheduling guide.