Lightwave Yachts Australia is one of Australia's most respected luxury catamaran manufacturers. Founded in 1996, the company designs and manufactures custom-built cruising catamarans and remains one of Australia's leading production catamaran builders.
Every vessel is built to order with extensive customisation options, creating unique manufacturing planning and production scheduling challenges.
Lightwave Yachts operates in a highly customised manufacturing environment where every vessel is built according to customer requirements.
Unlike traditional manufacturing operations, production planning involves long lead times, custom configurations, material planning and capacity management across multiple production stages.
The organisation required greater visibility and control over manufacturing planning processes.
The business needed to plan manufacturing activities months in advance while balancing:
Without accurate forecasting, planning became increasingly difficult.
Managing multiple vessel builds simultaneously required:
The business needed a centralised Master Production Schedule (MPS) to support planning decisions.
Each vessel requires thousands of components and materials sourced from multiple suppliers.
The organisation required improved visibility into:
Management required real-time visibility into:
This information was critical for maintaining delivery schedules.
Many planning activities relied on spreadsheets and manual coordination, making it difficult to:
Lightwave Yachts selected Envertis because of its deep understanding of complex manufacturing environments and ability to customise planning processes around real business requirements.
Key reasons included:
Envertis implemented a comprehensive manufacturing planning framework that connected forecasting, procurement, production planning and execution into a single platform.
A customised Master Production Scheduling system was implemented to provide management with long-term visibility into manufacturing operations.
Key capabilities included:
This enabled proactive planning rather than reactive decision-making.
The solution introduced forecasting mechanisms allowing management to:
To support uninterrupted production operations, Envertis implemented automated replenishment processes.
Capabilities included:
This improved material availability while reducing planning effort.
The platform provided visibility across the complete production lifecycle.
Management could monitor:
The solution delivered real-time dashboards providing insights into:
Following implementation, Lightwave Yachts significantly improved planning visibility and manufacturing coordination.
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Spreadsheet-driven planning | Centralised manufacturing planning |
| Limited forecasting visibility | Forecast-driven planning |
| Manual production scheduling | Master Production Scheduler |
| Reactive procurement planning | Auto-replenishment planning |
| Limited capacity visibility | Real-time capacity planning |
| Delayed production insights | Live manufacturing dashboards |
| Manual coordination across departments | Integrated planning processes |
One of the most significant outcomes of the project was the introduction of a customised Master Production Scheduling framework.
By combining forecasting, production planning, procurement and manufacturing execution into a single platform, Lightwave Yachts gained the ability to make informed planning decisions months in advance while maintaining visibility across the entire production lifecycle.
This transformed manufacturing planning from a reactive process into a strategic operational capability.
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