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The internal system your business actually runs on
Most growing businesses run on a spreadsheet nobody wants to touch and three tools that do not speak to each other. We build the internal system that replaces them — quoting, jobs, inventory, invoicing, and the reporting that finally agrees with itself.
This is for you if:
- A critical process lives in a spreadsheet only one person understands.
- The same order is entered into three systems by three people.
- You cannot answer "what did we make on that job" without an afternoon of work.
- Off-the-shelf ERP quotes came back at a price that assumed you were much larger.
What You Actually Get
Built module by module against the process you actually run, so each piece earns its place before the next is started.
Process Modelling
We document how the business really works, including the exceptions people handle without mentioning them. Encoding a misunderstood process is how ERP projects fail.
Core Modules
Quotes, orders, jobs, inventory, purchasing and invoicing — whichever of these you need, built to fit rather than configured around.
Migration
Existing data profiled, cleaned and moved, with a reconciliation you can check rather than a promise that it worked.
Roles & Approvals
Who can see what, who signs off what, and an audit trail that answers who changed a figure and when.
Costing & Margin
Job and product profitability calculated from the same records the rest of the system uses, so the number is not assembled separately.
Phased Rollout
One module live and proven before the next begins, so the business is never waiting on a year-long build to see anything.
What A Build Like This Involves
An illustration of scope and sequence for erp & business software, not a client project. Real timelines move with the specifics, and the proposal you get would be costed against yours.
A fabrication business quoting bespoke jobs. Estimates are built in a spreadsheet by one estimator, job progress is tracked on a whiteboard, purchasing is done from memory, and nobody can say what a finished job actually made until the accountant closes the month.
Weeks 1–3 · Discovery
Follow three real jobs from enquiry to invoice. Document the estimating logic that currently lives in one person's spreadsheet and one person's head. Agree which module goes first on the basis of what hurts most, not what is easiest.
Weeks 4–8 · Quoting and jobs
The estimating model rebuilt as software, with materials, labour rates and margin rules explicit rather than buried in formulas. Jobs carry through from accepted quote to scheduled work, replacing the whiteboard.
Weeks 9–13 · Purchasing and inventory
Purchase orders raised against job requirements. Stock and off-cuts tracked so material already paid for gets used. Supplier pricing held against the estimating model so quotes stop drifting from reality.
Weeks 14–16 · Invoicing, costing and handover
Invoicing from the job record, posted to the existing accounting package. Job costing that draws from the same data, so margin is a query rather than a reconstruction. Training, documentation and a support window while the team switches over.
About sixteen weeks across four phases, each usable on completion
Other Work Under Business Automation
Automation compounds. While you scale erp & business software, connecting it to the CRM and the routing rules is where the week comes back.
ERP & Business Software FAQs
If a standard product fits, buy it — it will be cheaper and better supported. Building wins when the licence and implementation cost of the standard product exceeds a custom build, or when your process is genuinely unusual and configuring around it costs more than encoding it.
Phases that each deliver something usable. If the first module does not earn its cost, you stop after it, having lost weeks rather than a year. Long ERP failures usually come from trying to launch everything at once.
It gets profiled, cleaned and migrated, and we hand you a reconciliation so you can check the totals rather than take our word for it. Spreadsheets normally hold more history than anyone expects.
Only if it is faster than what it replaced, which is why discovery involves watching the real process rather than being told about it. A system that adds steps gets worked around, no matter how good the reporting is.
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The internal system your business actually runs on. Tell us where you are with it today and we will tell you what we would tackle first — and what we would leave alone for now.