Momentum Health Technologies is an Australian manufacturer and distributor of custom prosthetic and orthotic devices. Its manufacturing combines digital technologies with materials such as thermoplastics and composites to produce devices tailored to individual patient requirements. The business employs around 13 people and has an annual revenue of roughly A$2 million.
Moving beyond spreadsheets and limited inventory tools
As Momentum Health Technologies grew from a small fabrication operation into a business combining custom manufacturing and distribution, its existing systems became harder to manage. The company initially tried a larger ERP platform, but the project was abandoned after a few months.
“We started off with Dynamics 365,” Tom says. “We tried to get it set up for a few months and then killed the project.”
When Momentum returned to the search, integration with its accounting system, ease of implementation, and suitability for a smaller manufacturer became key requirements. Tom reviewed a wide range of systems, from large enterprise platforms to smaller-business alternatives.
“With many of those solutions, I’d get a demo and an implementation cost estimate, and that would kind of be the end of that conversation.”
Finally, Tom came upon something that stood out as a much more practical fit. It supported the company’s complex custom products, integrated with its existing software stack, and appeared easy to implement without the consulting costs associated with larger ERP systems.
“What attracted us to MRPeasy was its depth of functionality, relative ease of use compared to other systems, and the quality of help we received from the support team,” Tom says.
Initial setup meant importing nearly 10,000 items
Momentum Health Technologies started implementing MRPeasy in January 2023. The scale of the inventory database proved a challenge, with Momentum initially importing around 9,500 stock items and now managing more than 11,500. As the team gained confidence in MRPeasy, the company began fine-tuning the details.
“We are now essentially doing a bit of a reimplementation,” Tom says. “The system has been working really well for us in terms of tracking, but now we’re cleaning the database and adjusting how our parent-child relationships work.”
A single source of truth for a highly customized operation
For Momentum Health Technologies, one of MRPeasy’s biggest benefits is bringing inventory, purchasing, customer orders, and manufacturing data together in one place. This is especially important for a business in which virtually every manufactured product is customized and the database contains more than 11,500 stock items.
“When a customer inquiry comes along, we don’t have to sift through dozens of spreadsheets,” Tom says. “All of the necessary information is in MRPeasy.”
Product configuration is a particularly valuable capability. Momentum uses parameter-driven bills of materials to manage products with an enormous number of possible variations.
“Creating parametric bills of materials on the fly is really, really important to us,” Tom states. “It gives us both structure and flexibility.”
Cleaner order management improves customer communication
MRPeasy has also improved the customer experience by giving Momentum Health Technologies better visibility over orders and deliveries.
“Our ordering and delivery processes are much cleaner,” Tom says. “It’s much easier to identify where orders are, when they’re likely to arrive, and when they’re going to be shipped.”
Traceability and compliance are becoming more important
Although Momentum Health Technologies is registered with Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), regulations have so far been relatively light-touch because the company manufactures devices only for external use. Tom, however, sees a change on the horizon.
“We’re expecting a number of regulatory changes over the next 24 months that will make our compliance work more demanding,” he says. “Without a system like MRPeasy in place, we’d be cooked.”
The sooner you implement, the easier it is
Looking back, Tom says he would have implemented MRPeasy much earlier. Starting sooner would have allowed the company to build its processes and product data around the system from the outset, rather than cleaning and restructuring them years later.
“I wish we could have just done it as soon as we started the business,” he concludes.
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