Finance Systems, ERP & Job Costing
A manufacturer that cannot see margin by job is flying blind, and usually mispricing its best work. We build the systems layer underneath the numbers.
Our view
ERP selection and implementation, job costing, and the reporting cadence that turns a finance function from a scorekeeper into an instrument panel. Most implementations are scoped around compliance and then never deliver margin visibility, because costing was an afterthought. We scope the other way: decide what the business needs to see by job, plant, and customer, then build the system and the close around producing it reliably every month.
When this is the work
When the numbers cannot be produced fast enough to run on.
The finance function is holding the business together with spreadsheets and memory, and someone outside has started asking for reporting it cannot produce.
- Industrial companies running on spreadsheets and tribal knowledge
- Sponsors professionalizing a new platform, facing a first audit, field exam, or real close
- Companies whose lender or buyer just asked for reporting they cannot produce
The Ore to Edge Discipline
The same three-phase discipline on every engagement, adapted to the demands of this work. See the full discipline.
Assay and refine
- Partner: understand how work is quoted, costed, and delivered on the floor
- Collect: current systems, close process, and the reporting the business actually needs
- Filter: the costing and reporting requirements the system has to satisfy
A requirements set built around costing, not just compliance
Alloy and form
- Select and implement the ERP against those requirements
- Stand up job costing: revenue, direct material, and labor by job, with variance-to-quote reviews
- Rebuild the monthly close for speed and first-audit readiness
A working system with job-level margin visibility and a faster close
Forge and hone
- Run the reporting cadence until the team owns it
- Feed job-level truth back into pricing and bid discipline
Margin visibility that changes what the business quotes and accepts
What you get
An instrument panel, not a scorekeeper.
- ERP selection and implementation built around costing, not just compliance
- Job costing: revenue, direct material, and labor by job, with variance-to-quote reviews
- Monthly close acceleration and first-audit readiness
- Proof it works: a recent aerospace-and-defense manufacturer implementation drove a +350 basis point gross-margin improvement through job-level visibility
Common questions
Finance Systems, ERP & Job Costing, in plain terms.
Are you an ERP reseller?
No. We are independent, so selection is driven by what the business needs to see rather than by a vendor relationship.
How long does an implementation take?
It depends on scope and data quality, but job-level margin visibility usually arrives well before the full implementation closes out, because costing is built first.
Can you do this while we are also fixing performance?
Yes. The systems work and the operating work reinforce each other; job-level truth is usually what makes the pricing and margin fixes stick.