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Manufacturing · Job shops and small plants

Your ERP has the numbers. Getting them out takes somebody all week.

Small plants run an ERP that was old when they bought it, and replacing it is not on the table. The data is in there. Getting a usable report out means exporting, pasting, fixing the columns by hand, and sending a PDF that is already stale by the time anyone reads it. We leave the ERP alone and build the part that was missing.

What we connect to

Nothing gets replaced.

  • The ERP you already run, however old it is
  • Production, packing and shipping records
  • Inventory counts and adjustments
  • QuickBooks — Desktop, Enterprise or Online

What stops being manual

The work you get back.

  • Recurring reports assembled and sent on a schedule
  • Inventory checked for errors every day, not when something goes wrong
  • Packing and shipping following one process instead of memory
  • Numbers that are current at the moment you open them

Built around the ERP and the process you already have. Most builds of this kind finish in two to four weeks, at a fixed price agreed before work starts.

Who it is for

Built for businesses that look like this.

Plants and job shops of roughly 10 to 100 people

Owners and operations managers

Anyone rebuilding the same report every week

Shops running an ERP nobody wants to replace

Manufacturer · 12 employees · Lutherville, MD

9 hrs/week

+$23,000 a year

Reporting automated out of an aging ERP system. Packing and shipping overhauled. Inventory checked for errors every day instead of when something goes wrong.

Common questions

What people ask first.

Do you replace our ERP?

No. Replacing an ERP is a year of pain and we are not going to suggest it. We build alongside what you run, reading from it and writing back where that is possible, so the system your team already knows stays where it is.

Our ERP is twenty years old. Does that matter?

Usually not. Old systems tend to have a database, an export, or a reporting tool we can work with. Part of the audit is finding out which, and telling you plainly if the answer is none of them.

What if our data is a mess?

It usually is, and that is worth knowing before anything is built. Where records are inconsistent we build the checks that surface it rather than quietly guessing, so a person decides what a bad record means.

What does a first build usually cover?

One report or one process, done properly, so you can judge the work before committing to more. Reporting is the common starting point because the time it takes is easy to measure.

All questions

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Tell us what you’re still doing by hand.

Write to us. Two or three sentences is plenty: what the task is, who does it, and how often.

We read and answer every message ourselves.

chris@edenmillsoftware.com