ERP ADVISORY & SOFTWARE SELECTION for MANUFACTURERS
Make ERP the backbone of smoother production, clearer visibility, and confident growth across your plants.
We support small and mid-sized manufacturers who are ready to move from legacy systems, QuickBooks, and spreadsheets to an ERP solution that handles complex operations, including multi-site inventory, integrations to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), quality, configurators, and service networks.
How We Help Manufacturers
We help manufacturers navigate the network of software solutions and implementation partners to select and implement ERP solutions that support the requirements of the business and promote best practices for long-term compatibility and business growth.
Turn your factory model into ERP requirements
We sit with operations, engineering, quality, supply chain, finance, and IT to map how orders, BOMs, and routings move today—across plants, warehouses, and service. We capture what the next platform must do for multi-site inventory, distribution channels, planning, forecasting, quality and costing, so your shortlist comes straight from your constraints, not a generic “manufacturing” checklist.
Verify vendor compatibility with engineering, quality, and scheduling requirements
We issue a vendor-neutral RFP, then design demo scripts around your real edge cases: engineering change control, rework loops, QA holds, subcontract operations, serialized/lot-tracked items, and configurator scenarios. Scorecards weight what matters, whether it be the PLM/MES handshake, finite scheduling, quality and traceability, configurator governance, and/or cost/variance control, so “shiny UI” doesn’t outrank the hard stuff.
De-risk implementation with the right contracts and phasing
We normalize license ramps, ISVs (quality, labeling, WMS, CPQ), and services, and write specifically defined ownership into the SOW so accountability for integrations, reports, conversions, and workflows are explicit. For many manufacturers we recommend a phased approach, stabilizing inventory, production, and quality first while keeping financial continuity, then guide partner selection, governance, and hyper-care so plants aren’t left to “figure it out” after go-live.
Stay in your corner through cutover and beyond
We act as your client-side Project Manager, manufacturing SME, and promoter of best practices by validating fit against requirements, defending scope when new requests pop up, escalating issues, and making sure test scripts, training, and plant playbooks are real, not theoretical. The result is an ERP program grounded in throughput, quality, and cost, not just hitting a go-live date.
Essex Finishing, a custom wood flooring manufacturer with a large unfinished engineered inventory, knew they had to replace QuickBooks after its acquisition. John Hannan LLC led a fast-tracked ERP selection—translating complex order-entry needs into vendor criteria, negotiating a five-year contract, and enabling robust inventory controls and a path to multi-warehouse operations and growth.
Why Manufacturing Companies Choose Us
OPERATIONS FIRST MINDSET
We speak plant, not just platform
EXPANSIVE KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge of 40+ ERP vendors so you're matched with the right fit
EXPERIENCED LEADERSHIP
Engagement led by long-tenured leader from first conversation through go-live
ACTIONABLE, READY-TO-USE DELIVERABLES
Designed for your business but structured to plug into your project
Making Manufacturing Companies' Vision a Reality
The following are manufacturing topic excerpts from our ERP Visions blog
