manufacturing & services
You already have the data — you're just missing the dashboard that shows it.
When you're deciding, not at month end. And one hour of repetitive work automated is worth twelve working days a year — I usually find more than one.
Where value is lost
The sector's three typical holes
The system that doesn't talk
Orders, warehouse, invoices, spreadsheets: every figure exists, but retyped by hand from one system to the next. Copy-paste is the biggest hidden cost.
Decisions at month end
The numbers arrive when it's too late to correct course. A real-time dashboard turns accounting from an autopsy into a steering instrument.
Requests that get lost
Quotes, support, suppliers: without a single flow, every request lives in someone's inbox — and when that someone is on holiday, everything stops.
The small stuff too
The nuisances nobody puts in a quote
It's not the big problems that wear you down: it's these. A well-built system switches almost all of them off in passing, while solving the big one.
- The delivery note photographed in the warehouse and retyped in the office the next day
- The "final" Excel that exists in four different versions
- Holidays and shifts managed on a sheet pinned to the board
- The customer asking "where's my order?" and the answer taking three phone calls
- Delivery notes and invoices matched by hand at month end
- The report for the bank or the accountant rebuilt from scratch every time
The typical system
What I install, in practice
It starts with one piece — the Pilot, in production in 14 days with a written guarantee — and widens only when the numbers justify it.
- Your existing systems connected: ERP, email, calendar, sheets
- A tailor-made dashboard with the numbers that matter, in real time
- Quotes and orders tracked from request to invoice
- Documents read and filed automatically: delivery notes, orders, contracts
- Support requests in one flow, with priority and an owner
- Immediate alert if a flow stops or a number goes off the rails
It connects to what you already use
Equipment and investments
What might be worth buying — and what isn't
Almost everything runs on the devices you already own. When a purchase is needed, I tell you at the check-up, with real figures, before starting — never mid-project.
Might be needed
- A document scanner in the office (and a scanning app in the field)delivery notes and contracts enter the flow as soon as they exist, not at month end
- A monitor on the shop floor or in the office for the dashboardnumbers in everyone's sight change behaviour on their own
- A recent PC for whoever administers (if the current one is 10 years old)the bottleneck must never be the approver's computer
Usually NOT needed
- A new ERP: first squeeze what's there — replacing it is the last resort
- A data warehouse: for an SME, well-connected data is enough
- Months of consulting: the first useful flow goes to production in 14 days
If someone is selling it to you as indispensable, ask them why — or ask me at the check-up.
Before spending
The three mistakes I see most often
In your sector, money is usually wasted before calling someone like me. If you're about to do one of these three things, pause for a moment.
Changing ERP as the first move: months of migration to find the same broken processes inside new software.
Building the dashboard before connecting the data: pretty numbers retyped by hand are still late numbers.
Automating everything at once: start from the flow that costs most, measure, then widen.
How it starts
Three moments, no leap in the dark
Check-up
I map the flows that still pass through hands: where things get retyped, where they wait, where nobody looks.
Pilot
One flow only, the most expensive one: in production in 14 days, measured before and after.
Extension
If the numbers convince, it widens one piece at a time — always with alerts on everything already installed.
Real questions
What people in your trade always ask
Do we have to change our ERP?
Almost never. The job is connecting what's there: if the ERP has an export or an API, it integrates. It gets replaced only if it is the bottleneck — and that's your call.
How invasive is the project?
It starts with a Pilot on a single flow, in production in 14 days, without touching the rest. If the numbers convince, it widens one piece at a time.
Who runs it inside the company afterwards?
The same people as today, with the same tools: the system works behind the scenes. Delivery includes documentation and a hand-over with whoever will live with it daily.
What if a flow breaks?
The alert reaches me before it reaches you: with the monthly retainer I take care of it. And without the retainer the system stays yours, documented, fixable by anyone.
The general questions — costs, timing, data, guarantee — are in the full FAQ.
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The check-up for an SME maps the flows that still pass through hands: where things get retyped, where they wait, where nobody looks.
And it stays yours even if nothing comes of it: it's the most honest way I know to introduce myself.
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