An RFQ comes in and someone quotes it by hand off the print. The won job gets retyped into the ERP, the traveler, and QuickBooks. POs from your OEM customers arrive by EDI portal and get keyed in. The schedule lives on a whiteboard. The machines are dialed in — it's the paperwork around them that's the bottleneck.
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The parts ship on time and in spec. The friction is in everything around actually cutting them.
No two-year ERP replacement you'll never finish rolling out — just the specific fixes that pay off this quarter.
We start with one conversation. You walk me through a normal job — how an RFQ becomes a quote, how the won job hits the ERP and the traveler, how it ships and gets invoiced, and where the same information gets typed twice. I listen for the repetitive and the manual, especially the EDI and the glue between systems that don’t talk.
A few days later you get a short, plain-English report: what’s costing you time, what fixes each thing, what it runs a month, and where to start. Most of it is connecting the ERP and tools you already pay for — EDI releases that stop being hand-keyed, quote-to-job that carries over, reports that build themselves. Some of it I can build once and hand you with no new subscription. The report is yours either way.
It usually pencils out fast: quoting a job off the print and then re-keying the won PO into the ERP and QuickBooks runs about 15–20 minutes, and at 25–40 quotes and jobs a week that's most of a day gone to typing. We work it out from your real numbers on the call — the tools to stop it usually run around $75 a month, before anything custom gets built.
An illustrative example — not a specific client.
Take a 15-person job shop. Every RFQ gets quoted by hand off the print, then the won job gets retyped into the ERP, the traveler, and QuickBooks — and the OEM's release schedule gets keyed in from a portal. Add it up and it's hours a week nobody was counting.
→ Quote-to-job that carries the numbers forward, and the OEM release piped straight into the ERP, built once. The retyping — and the transposed part numbers — stop. No new monthly subscription.
Book a time, walk me through how a job actually moves through the shop, and get back a plan to get those hours back — whether or not you ever hire me again.
Book the audit — $999