[01]_IT CONSULTING

    Hauppauge Runs on Systems That Were Never Designed to Work Together.

    The Long Island Innovation Park is full of manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers running an ERP bought a decade ago, a warehouse system bolted on later, EDI connections to two or three large customers, and a shipping platform nobody has reviewed since it was installed. Each piece works. The seams between them are where orders get lost, inventory drifts and someone ends up reconciling by hand every month. Fixing those seams is scoped project work, and it's what we do.

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    [02]_The cost of the seams

    In a distribution business, integration debt shows up as inventory you can't trust.

    • 01The ERP and the warehouse system disagree on stock levels, so someone runs a manual reconciliation every month and the number everyone actually trusts lives in a spreadsheet.
    • 02An EDI connection to a major customer was configured once, years ago, by a consultant who is no longer reachable. When their spec changes, nobody in the building knows how to adjust it.
    • 03Orders arrive by email, portal, phone and EDI, and each path enters the system slightly differently — so reporting on true order volume requires cleaning the data first.
    • 04The shipping platform doesn't write tracking back into the ERP, so customer service looks up the same shipment in two places while the customer waits on the phone.
    • 05Nobody has mapped which systems hold customer pricing. When a contract price changes, it gets updated in some of them.
    [03]_How it works

    Live in days, not months.

    01

    Map

    We trace an order end to end — from however it arrives, through the ERP, the warehouse, shipping and invoicing — and document every place it changes hands or format.

    02

    Assess

    Each break is scored for what it actually costs: reconciliation hours, error rates, delayed shipments, or margin lost to stale pricing.

    03

    Architect

    You get a target design and a sequence — which integration to fix first, what to consolidate, what to leave alone and why.

    04

    Build or hand off

    We implement the parts you want us to, and document the rest so your team or existing IT provider can carry it forward.

    [04]_What changes

    Inventory and order data you can act on without cleaning first.

    • One traced, documented order flow — the map that lets you tell where a lost order actually went instead of guessing.
    • Stock levels that reconcile between ERP and warehouse without a monthly manual pass.
    • EDI connections that are documented and maintainable when a customer changes their spec.
    • Tracking and status written back where customer service actually looks, instead of in a second system.
    • A ranked plan your existing IT provider can execute — we're not bidding to replace them.
    [05]_FAQ

    Questions, answered.

    No. We don't run a helpdesk, manage endpoints or answer tickets on an SLA — if that's what you need, hire an MSP, and several serve the Hauppauge industrial park well. Our work is scoped systems and integration projects: mapping how your ERP, warehouse, EDI and shipping actually fit together, and fixing the seams.

    Usually not, and we'll push back if that's the opening assumption. Replacing an ERP is expensive, slow and risky, and most of the pain we're asked to look at comes from the integrations around it rather than the system itself. If replacement genuinely is the answer, we'll say so — with a cost model, not a vendor pitch.

    Yes. We treat existing EDI as part of the map, document how it's configured and where it breaks, and either fix it in place or specify what your provider needs to change.

    Tracing and assessing a single order flow typically runs three to four weeks. A multi-warehouse operation with several EDI partners takes longer. Implementation is scoped separately once you've seen the plan and priced it.

    For the mapping phase, yes. You cannot trace an order through a warehouse from a video call — the workarounds that matter are the ones nobody documents, and you find those by watching the work.
    [07]_Nearby coverage

    Book a free scoping call.

    Twenty minutes, no pitch deck. We'll map exactly how this would run for your business and what it'd recover. Prefer to read more first? See Systems Architecture.

    Free scoping consult

    See what it would recover

    Tell us where to reach you and we'll show you exactly how it'd work — no cost, no pressure.