"Working in partnership with Nightingale HQ's innovative team, we now have a digital roadmap with short, medium, and long-term actions to meet our company's Digitalisation Strategy. They completed a thorough review of our company, processes, and day to day challenges identifying digitalisation opportunities to improve productivity."

Tony Woods – CEO Midland Steel

Manufacturer drives growth with digital review

Midland Steel is a market-leading reinforcing steel supplier in Ireland and the UK. They offer a diverse range of prefabricated rebar solutions. We completed a company-wide digital review looking at processes and technologies used across the business and delivered a comprehensive roadmap and action plan for implementation. ​

Approach

We reviewed processes and systems across the business (Production, Finance, R&D and IT). We met with key individuals, evaluated technologies and reviewed documentation.

Objectives

• Assess existing systems and processes
• Identify opportunities to go paperless and automate workflows to improve efficiency
• Recommend cost-effective technical solutions that scale with the business
• Evaluate the level of digital literacy within the company and assess future upskilling and training needs
• Identify key technology hires to support implementation

Achievements

• Provided a roadmap with actionable recommendations, priorities, costings and owners to support digitalisation
• Recommended a Data Hub project to consolidate data from different systems, delivering greater insight into the business
• Identified high-value, quick-win projects including business reporting and automating work instructions
• Built a skills map and identified areas of improvement
• Delivered a plan to achieve longer-term near-real-time data analytics and increased process automation
• Identified support and funding mechanisms for implementation

Key results

• Reviewed of company-wide processes and systems
• Delivered digital roadmap and action plan for implementation
• Identified funding and support mechanisms for next steps