Ramjet Plastics

Reading purchase orders out of an inbox and into the factory floor

A family-run injection moulding factory in Brisbane was retyping every customer order three times. Now a person approves what the system has already read.

The problem

Ramjet Plastics is a family-run plastic injection moulding factory in Brisbane. Every customer purchase order arrived by email and was retyped by hand: into an office order, a works order for the factory floor, and eventually an invoice. Blanket orders made it worse. A single 12,000-part monthly order had to be broken down into weekly deliveries manually, and different customers ran different rolling delivery schedules.

What we built

A system that watches the order inbox, reads each PO with AI (including PDF attachments), and extracts the line items. The office administrator reviews and approves every order before anything is committed. Approved orders generate the office order and works order PDFs automatically, splitting blanket POs into one works order per delivery date. Stock is barcode-tracked in and out.

How it's measured

PO processing time is down roughly 80%, and works orders now reach the factory floor in minutes instead of waiting in an admin queue. Every order is timestamped end to end in the system, so intake time is measured from the data rather than estimated.

Status

Live and in daily production use.

“Going from printed forms to a fully automated ordering, stock control and accounting system has meant we can spend more time moulding and less time on admin.”

Grant T, General Manager, Ramjet Plastics