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

About FABCO

FABCO Ltd is a Bulgarian 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 Prodexis, 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 ‘What is the status of order #X?’
• 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: Prodexis

What convinced FABCO to choose Prodexis 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 this 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

Is Prodexis right for your shop?

Prodexis 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