Six outlets. Six Excel files. One plant manager who remembers everything.

Six outlets. Six Excel files. One plant manager who remembers what is actually in each of them.

That is how most multi location manufacturers run, and it works right up until it doesn't. Someone takes leave. An outlet promises stock that shipped yesterday. A customer gets quoted two different prices in the same week. By the time the month end report explains what happened, the money is already gone.

Nobody here is careless. The business outgrew the system holding it together, and no one had a spare quarter to fix it.

The fix is less dramatic than the ERP vendors make it sound.

One stock ledger, so a SKU has one number instead of six. An ordering screen for outlets, so requests stop living in chat threads. Dispatch planned against real loads instead of memory. Margin per outlet visible daily, not at month end when nothing can be changed.

We built TruckRadar on exactly this shape of problem, loads and locations that nobody could see in one place, so this is not theory for us.

Here is how we start. One outlet, four weeks, working software and not a slide deck. If it does not make that outlet easier to run, there is nothing to roll out and you have risked almost nothing. If it does, the other five follow the same pattern.

Plants do not buy faith. They buy proof, and they are right to.