Define the First Safe Integration Flow Between ERP and the Floor
IT and Operations often agree an ERP-to-shop-floor connection is needed and disagree on where to start. This blueprint takes your ERP name/version, available interfaces and current manual steps, and returns one concrete, non-confidential first flow — work order to production confirmation, or whatever your actual gap is — with the objects, prerequisites and risks named.
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For an IT and Operations team that knows ERP and the shop floor are disconnected but has not agreed on the first safe flow to connect, or the sequence of prerequisites that makes it low-risk.
What we do
- Review your ERP name and version, available interfaces (API, flat file, database view, middleware) and current manual workaround.
- Map your work-order process, production confirmation method, material consumption and labeling/barcode practice.
- Return one conceptual flow — no confidential schema or credentials involved — showing the objects that would move between systems.
- List the prerequisites and risks that need to be resolved before any integration work starts.
What we need from you
- ERP name and version, and which interfaces are actually available (API, flat file export, direct database access, middleware already in place).
- Your current work-order release and production-confirmation process, including any manual re-entry steps.
- How material consumption and labels/barcodes are currently handled on the floor.
- Deployment constraints — on-premise ERP, cloud ERP, IT governance requirements, change-control process.
What you get back
- A conceptual integration flow diagram — the objects that move, in what direction, and the trigger for each step.
- The prerequisite checklist: what needs to exist (master data alignment, ID mapping, network access) before this can run.
- The first PoC scope this points to, sized to prove the flow safely rather than integrating everything at once.
- A risk list — the specific things that make ERP integrations fail, checked against your actual setup.
What this does not claim
This blueprint is conceptual and non-confidential by design — no ERP schema, credentials or production database export is requested or reviewed here. The actual integration is built and validated in the ERP Integration PoC, against a test environment, not this assessment.
The Proof of Concept this leads to
Frequently asked questions
Will you need access to our ERP system for this?
No. This is a conceptual exercise based on what you describe — ERP name/version, interfaces, current process — with no system access, credentials or confidential data involved at any point.
What is the "first flow" you recommend?
It depends on your actual gap — often work-order release from ERP to the floor and production confirmation back, since that pair usually has the most manual re-entry and the clearest ROI. The blueprint names the specific flow for your situation, not a generic one.
Does this replace the ERP Integration PoC?
No — it is the planning step before it. The PoC builds and validates the actual integration against a test ERP environment; this blueprint defines what that PoC should build first.
Request this Proof of Concept
Tell us the scope you have in mind and we will come back with a written PoC plan: what gets connected, what you provide, how success is measured and what the decision at the end looks like.