Who we serve
Operations systems for owner-run industrial firms in Middle Tennessee
We work with owner-run firms that have 20 to 499 employees, in 12 Middle Tennessee counties.
Our focus
Four kinds of industrial business.
Machine shops
Job costing, a pacing machine or cell, and quotes that drift from actual hours.
Learn moreFabricated metal
Fab and weld costing, a weld or fit-up bottleneck, and bids that drift from the floor.
Learn moreIndependent warehousing
Labor as the cost you can control, customer data requests, and plans in spreadsheets.
Learn more3PL and freight arrangement
Systems that do not talk, customer reporting demands, and planning done by hand.
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Also in our focus
We also work with auto parts manufacturers. They face the same information problem: cost, schedule and labor data that sit in different places.
- Ownership
- Owner-run or family-run. The owner still knows the floor.
- Size
- 20 to 499 employees.
- Place
- 12 Middle Tennessee counties.
Signs it may be time
The pressure often shows up in one of three places.
- A customer asks for data you can't easily produce.
- A labor squeeze makes every hour count.
- A recent costly surprise, like a late shipment or an overtime spike.
Running a shop or warehouse in Middle Tennessee? I'd like to learn how your week really runs.
I'm talking with owners and operations managers about where cost and schedule information breaks down. 30 minutes, no pitch, no slides.
Book a floor walk.
We walk your floor together and find the one constraint holding your margin back.