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Operations & Systems

Quote-to-Production ERP

A custom fabrication business had strong craft capability and disconnected systems — sales, execution, and reporting each running in their own tools. As volume grew, so did the gaps between them. We defined and built one operating architecture from quote through production to finance.

Snapshot

Client profile
Custom fabrication business, 80–200 people, UAE
Engagement
Catalyst — staggered rollout by function
Timeline
Staggered across commercial and operational functions
Scope
Quoting, scheduling, execution, inventory, and finance orchestration
01

The problem

The company operated with strong craft capability but disconnected systems, managing sales, execution, and reporting in parallel tools. Leadership needed one operating model linking commercial commitments to execution capacity and financial outcomes.

  • Order commitments and production planning were not synchronised in real time
  • Cross-functional status reporting required manual reconciliation
  • Finance and operations lacked a shared view of execution risk
02

What we built

First the target operating architecture — ownership boundaries, data contracts, and which function gets released in what order. Sequencing was the hard part, not the software.

Then integrated workflows across quoting, scheduling, execution, inventory, and finance, with automation shaped to each role rather than one generic flow.

Then monitoring cadences, SOPs, and onboarding playbooks, so system behaviour stayed stable after rollout.

03

What stuck

  • Commercial and operations teams aligned around shared execution data
  • Leadership moved from lagging reports to live operational visibility
  • Process consistency improved across departments and shifts
04

Impact

  • Order-to-release stopped waiting on manual reconciliation between functions
  • Finance and operations read the same execution risk from the same place
  • Schedule predictability and exception handling both improved