South Bend & Michiana · Manufacturing

The machines are running. The office is buried in paperwork.

The same order gets keyed in again and again — the quote becomes a work order becomes an ERP entry becomes a packing slip becomes an invoice, and then a line in your customer's EDI portal. The floor is dialed in. Everything around it is held together by spreadsheets and the one person who knows how it all works.

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Find 5 hours a week or your money back. Worst case, you’re out 45 minutes.
WORK ORDERMICHIANA, IN
AUG 14, 2026
Where your week is going3–5 items
The fix for each onenamed + priced
Hours back per weekhonest number
GUARANTEED
OR REFUNDED
Sound familiar?

If this is how the shop runs, there are hours hiding in it.

The parts ship on time. The friction is in everything around making them.

The same order gets retyped from the quote into the work order, the ERP, the packing slip, and the invoice.
Production scheduling lives on a whiteboard and in one person's head — when they're out, the floor guesses.
Your big customers push POs and ASNs through EDI portals that someone logs into and keys by hand.
Month-end reporting for the owners is a manual export-and-paste job in Excel that eats a full day.
Inventory and job status live in spreadsheets that are already wrong by the time anyone reads them.
Every price or spec change means editing the same numbers in the ERP, the quote sheet, and three saved templates.
What we'd do about it

One call, then a plan a shop your size will actually use.

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 order — how a quote becomes a work order, how it hits the ERP, how it ships, how it gets invoiced, and where the same information gets typed twice. I listen for the repetitive and the manual, especially the glue between systems that don’t talk to each other.

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 feeds that stop being hand-keyed, reports that build themselves, one clean entry point instead of five. Some of it I can build once and hand you with no new subscription. The report is yours either way.

What that gets you

In audits like this, most shops get back the better part of a day a week for around $75 a month in tools — before anything custom gets built.

~8 hrsrecovered per week, estimated
A sample fix

What this could look like

An illustrative example — not a specific client.

PACKAGING SUPPLIER · 22 EMPLOYEES
“Every order from our biggest customer comes in through their EDI portal, and someone retypes it into our ERP by hand — then retypes the shipment back out. Nobody had ever added up the hours.”

→ One EDI-to-ERP bridge, built once. ~8 hrs/week back, and the typos stopped. No new monthly subscription.

Ready when you are

45 minutes. Worst case, that's all it costs you.

Book a time, walk me through how an order 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
A South Bend studio that builds the fixes, not just the report. See the work →