ERP SOFTWARE SELECTION for MANUFACTURERS
Select an ERP platform that can support production, inventory, quality, and growth across your manufacturing operations.
Manufacturers outgrow disconnected systems when production, inventory, quality, and finance lose a clear, connected view of orders, materials, costs, and capacity. John Hannan LLC leads a vendor-neutral ERP Software Selection process built around how your business actually runs, from order entry and BOMs to multi-site inventory, quality, configurators, PLM, MES, and service.
We help your team define requirements, compare vendors, script meaningful demos, evaluate total cost, and move into implementation with a clear roadmap. The goal is not just to choose software, but to select a platform that can support the way you build, ship, and scale.
How We Help Manufacturers Select ERP
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 plant operations into ERP requirements
We work across operations, quality, supply chain, finance, sales, and IT to document the processes, constraints, and exceptions your ERP must support. That includes inventory visibility, BOM and routing structures, production planning, quality controls, configurators, integrations, and reporting needs.
Build a vendor list around manufacturing fit
ERP vendors are evaluated against the capabilities that matter most to your operation, not generic feature lists. We help compare platforms based on production flow, item and inventory complexity, quality management, costing, scheduling, and integration readiness.
Run demos that prove how work gets done
Scripted demonstrations force vendors to show real manufacturing scenarios, not polished sales paths. We focus demos on the workflows that create risk, including order entry, production planning, QA holds, rework, subcontracting, inventory movement, reporting, and month-end impacts.
Connect selection to implementation success
We organize pricing, services, assumptions, integrations, training, and go-live readiness into a clear decision package. Once a vendor is selected, we can continue as your client-side advocate to keep scope, partner delivery, testing, data, and adoption aligned to the selection outcome.
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
