06 of nine practices
ERP Solutions
Customization of leading ERP products for orders, finance, purchasing, and the warehouse.
Digital Qubits customizes leading ERP products for the parts of the business the system has to run: orders, finance, purchasing, and the warehouse. The point of the work is a system people can operate, with less rekeying between those functions and fewer private spreadsheets holding the real process.
ERP programs collect requirements until the list describes the company in full. That list is not a plan. Order management, sales and distribution, payables, receivables, purchasing, and warehouse management do not all have to change on the same weekend. We ask which flow is losing time or money now, and which teams must share one record of an order, a receipt, or an invoice. That is the first release. The rest is sequenced so each phase has users, a reconciliation, and a weekend that can be reversed.
Customization is justified when the product cannot represent a process you should keep. It is not justified as a copy of every old workaround. Workarounds often exist because the previous system could not do something ordinary. We test that assumption before we build. Configuration around the process you want is cheaper to own than a layer of custom code that has to be retested on every upgrade. When custom work is the right answer, it is small, named, and documented for the people who will maintain it.
The connections matter as much as the screens. An order that is typed again into finance, and a receipt that is typed again into purchasing, will drift. We design those handoffs so the warehouse, the buyer, and the accountant are looking at the same event. Training follows the job: the person who receives goods tries a receipt, the person who invoices tries the path from delivery to cash. A classroom tour of every menu is not a test.
Cutover is a checklist, not a mood. Open orders, inventory counts, open invoices, and the rules for what stays in the old system are agreed before the date. After go-live we stay for stabilization. The first exceptions are the ones that teach you whether the design holds.
We deliver ERP work as a project we own, or we add specialists to your team. Tell us which product you run or plan to run, and which flow you want connected first. We reply within one business day.
// What's included
The parts of the business the system has to run.
- 01Order management and sales and distribution
- 02Payables and receivables
- 03Purchasing and warehouse management
- 04Configuration around the process you want, not a copy of every old workaround
// How the work runs
From the first conversation through support.
When we deliver the work, every engagement follows the same path.
- 01
Gather requirements
We start by listening: goals, constraints, the systems you have, and what a useful result looks like.
- 02
Design and prototype
We shape the approach early and prototype so the trade-offs are visible before the full build.
- 03
Build
Hands-on engineers do the work in short iterations, with you close to the decisions.
- 04
Test
Requirements are tested against real user expectations early, not only at the end.
- 05
Deploy
We plan the cutover, train the people who will use what we built, and go live with a checklist.
- 06
Support
After go-live you still work with the people who did the work, for questions and stabilization.
// Related practices
Often paired with this work.
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SAP ConsultingSAP implementation and support for finance, supply chain, and operations.
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Application DevelopmentWeb design, content management, enterprise portals, and web services as one engagement.
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Project ManagementAgile, Kanban, and Scrum delivery with structured requirements, monitoring, and deployment.
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