Manufacturing data systems for Syteline and Global Shop Solutions

One model.
Numbers you can run the business on.

MFG Analytics turns ERP data into trusted margin, delivery, inventory, quality, and operations reporting inside your Microsoft environment. You own the model, reports, source, and documentation.

ERP specialization
Infor CSI / Syteline · Global Shop Solutions
Microsoft stack
Fabric · Power BI · Azure · SQL
Delivery
Audit · Build · Transfer
Ownership
Built in your environment
01 — The stakes

You can’t do analytics
on data you can’t reach.

Access comes before analytics. Your ERP data — and the systems around it: MES, quality, CRM, the spreadsheets holding the rest together — often sit behind a vendor’s portal, a proprietary schema, or a refresh path you don’t control. The ERP vendor and the VAR point the same way: another module, another seat, another year. When both voices agree, you have no independent counsel.

We sell neither the ERP nor the roadmap, so we can say the thing neither of them will: get access to your own data first, and own it. Then the analytics — and the exit multiple — become possible. Lock-in doesn’t just slow reporting. It caps the multiple.

Run the exit model Access is the precondition The exit math
02 — The problem

When reports disagree,
the problem is usually below the dashboard.

Different definitions of margin. Different date logic for delivery. Costing rules that changed in the ERP without reaching the report. Measures copied across files. Refresh paths owned by a former vendor. We trace the number back to the ERP, define it once, and build the reporting layer around that definition.

Vendor portal
34.1%
Margin · MTD
Excel export
28.7%
Margin · MTD
Board deck
31.9%
Margin · MTD
One model · Fabric · your tenant
31.2%
✓ CONTROLLER = COO = BOARD

The anatomy of divergent numbers — definitions, date logic, stale costing, copied measures — is its own document: Why your reports disagree.

03 — Services

Audit. Build. Transfer.

Three verbs, in order. Each one ends with something you own.

Audit

ERP data audit

A documented review of how the ERP is actually used, where important numbers disagree, and why. Ends with a graded report and a priced recommendation.

2 weeks · $3,000 · details
Build

The manufacturing model

One semantic model in Fabric, built on your operating definitions — margin, delivery, inventory, quality, capacity. Defined once, used everywhere.

Fabric · your tenant
Build

Operating views

Power BI reports for the controller, the plant, and the board — reading from the same model, drilling to the same transactions.

Power BI · documented measures
Transfer

Handoff

Source, documentation, refresh logic, measure definitions, runbooks, and working sessions — everything your team needs to operate and extend the system.

Included in every build
04 — Approach

Why the numbers hold.

We know the ERP.

The work starts with transactions, BOMs, routings, costs, jobs, inventory, and extensions — not a generic connector demo.

We define the number once.

The controller, COO, and plant should disagree about the decision — not about which report is correct.

We build it where you operate.

No proprietary reporting portal. The model and reports live in your Microsoft environment, and stay there.

05 — Fit

A deliberate practice,
for a specific kind of shop.

A good fit
  • Runs CSI/Syteline or Global Shop Solutions
  • Important reports disagree, and it matters
  • Wants a model the internal team can operate after the engagement
Not the right fit
  • Wants a general ERP implementation
  • Wants a rented reporting portal
  • Wants an AI project before the underlying data is reliable

Two out of three mid-market manufacturers are unhappy with their ERP. It is rarely the people, and rarely even the software. It’s not you — it’s the model layer.

Working documents

The arguments,
written down and kept.

One document per argument, for the people who sign off on the spend. No subscription, no gate.

All working documents
06 — Start here

Start with the numbers
that do not agree.

Fixed scope, fixed price, and you keep the report either way. The audit in full →

01WalkthroughDocumented review of how the ERP is actually used — in the system and in the spreadsheets around it.
02ReconcileFind where margin, delivery, and inventory numbers disagree — and why.
03GradeReport card by module: healthy, misconfigured, abandoned.
04RecommendThe next step, priced. You keep the report either way.
The ERP Data Audit
$3,000
Virtual · 5–6 sessions · 2 weeks
  • · Graded report card by module
  • · Reconciliation of conflicting numbers
  • · Priced recommendation
  • · On-site option · priced by size & location
Book the audit
07 — About

An independent practice.

MFG Analytics is a practice of Up Analytics LLC, led by a principal with 28 years of data-architecture experience. We build manufacturing data systems for 50–500 employee shops — and we are not a reseller for any ERP or reporting vendor.

Contact

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