Industries / Manufacturing
Manufacturing
ERP, CRM, shop-floor integration, and service operations — designed by someone who's been inside vertically integrated manufacturing, from raw material to finished product, not someone reading the manual. The result: inventory that matches the floor, quoting that keeps up, and a ledger that reconciles itself.
At a glance
- Experience
- Founder's direct, in-house experience — vertically integrated manufacturing
- Best fit
- ~$50–150M mid-market manufacturers with multi-system complexity
- Common triggers
- ERP swap, M&A consolidation, shop-floor↔ERP gaps, dealer-channel growth
- Strongest for
- ERP, Integration, Service Operations
- Pricing
- Quote, on scope — not on firm size
The systems reality on the floor.
Manufacturing runs on the seams between systems — engineering to ERP, ERP to the shop floor, orders to production to finance. When those seams are manual, the symptoms are always the same: inventory drifts, quotes lag, and month-end becomes a reconciliation marathon. Architecture-first thinking is what closes them.
Does any of this sound familiar?
- Inventory in the ERP never quite matches what's actually on the floor.
- Quoting is slow because product configuration lives in spreadsheets and a few people's heads.
- Shop-floor and production systems don't feed the ERP, so finance reconciles by hand.
- Dealer and distributor orders get re-keyed between systems, with the errors that brings.
- Engineering changes don't flow cleanly into the ERP bill of materials.
How PDS helps manufacturers.
The same services and bundles, pointed at the failure modes that are specific to making and shipping physical product.
ERP Implementation
The core system done as part of the whole ecosystem — finance, inventory, production, BOM. Deepest experience in SAP Business One; vendor-neutral on fit.
Learn moreSystems Integration
Shop-floor ↔ ERP ↔ CRM connected with the right pattern, so inventory, production, and finance agree without manual exhibits.
Learn moreService Operations Bundle
For manufacturers with an after-sale service arm — field service, dispatch, and parts run as one operating change, not four projects.
Learn morePartner Operations Bundle
Dealer and distributor channels with portals, configured quoting, and pricing wired to the back office — channel ops as a coherence problem.
Learn moreData & Analytics
One trusted source of truth for inventory, production, and margin — the same numbers for operations and finance, on demand.
Learn moreDigital Transformation Bundle
When it's the whole business at once — advisory, selection, ERP, CRM, integration, data, and change, with one architect owning the seams.
Learn moreFrom the inside, not the sidelines.
PDS is led by Morley Prendergast, who spent 15+ years embedded as the architect inside a vertically integrated manufacturer — the full stack, from raw material through R&D, production, distribution, and the corporate functions that tie them together. The firm's manufacturing work is built on that experience: advice grounded in having been responsible for making these systems work day to day, and having stayed through the go-lives where they're actually proven.
It also means right-sized delivery: senior architecture leadership at a mid-market price point — too substantial for a freelancer, without the overhead of a Big-4 engagement team.
More about PDSNo pitch, no pressure
Inventory and the floor out of sync?
A 30-minute call is enough to tell where your biggest systems gap is — and what a sensible, fundable first step looks like for a shop your size.
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