Case studies

Problems Solved. Results That Stuck.

A look at some of the challenges our clients brought to us and what we did about them.

Fenevision ERPMid-size window manufacturer

Migrated a manufacturer off a broken Fenevision configuration with zero production downtime

The situation

A window manufacturing company had been running a misconfigured Fenevision instance for three years. Fenevision is a very powerful tool, but when the BOMs were inconsistent, inventory counts were unreliable, and the purchasing module had never been properly set up. Their previous IT vendor had walked away.

What we did

  • Audited the full Fenevision installation and documented every misconfiguration
  • Rebuilt the BOM structure from scratch using their actual production data
  • Reconfigured inventory and purchasing modules in a staging environment before cutover
  • Ran parallel operations for two weeks to validate accuracy before going live
  • Trained the production and purchasing teams on correct workflows

The outcome

Clean cutover with no production interruption. Inventory accuracy went from roughly 60% to over 98% within 90 days. The purchasing team processed their first clean month end close in over two years.

SQL & ReportingGlass Manufacturer

Cut month-end reporting from three days to under two hours

The situation

A glass manufacturing company was spending three days every month manually pulling data out of Fenevision into spreadsheets to produce management reports. The process involved four people and was error-prone. Leadership had no real-time visibility into margins or inventory turns.

What we did

  • Mapped every report they were producing manually to its underlying Fenevision data
  • Wrote a suite of custom SQL queries covering margins, inventory turns, purchasing, and fulfillment
  • Built automated report outputs that ran on a schedule and delivered to the right people
  • Tuned several slow queries that were causing system wide performance issues during peak hours

The outcome

Month end reporting dropped from three days to under two hours. The four people previously tied up in the process were freed for other work. Leadership got a live margin dashboard for the first time.

IT ServicesManufacturing Facility, 100 staff

Migrated 100 staff from a previous 365 tenant to a new self owned 365 tenant

The situation

An 100 person manufacturing facility was controlled and managed by a previous IT vendor who had full ownership and control over their mailboxes. We migrated the domain and mailbox ownership over a single weekend with zero downtime.

What we did

  • Assessed the existing 365 environment and identified what had needed to be done
  • Planned a phased migration with a hard cutover window over a Friday night and Saturday
  • Pre-staged all mailboxes and validated sync before the cutover window opened
  • Handled DNS cutover, MX record updates, and SPF/DKIM configuration
  • Ran a half-day Teams and SharePoint training session the following Monday

The outcome

All 100 staff were on the new Microsoft 365 tenant by Monday morning with no email disruption.

IT ServicesSmall manufacturer, 22 employees

Virtualized three aging physical servers before hardware failure forced the issue

The situation

A small manufacturer was running three physical servers that were all past end-of-life. One had already experienced a partial failure. They had no backup strategy and no documentation of what was running where. A full failure would have taken their Fenevision instance offline indefinitely.

What we did

  • Documented all services, applications, and dependencies running across the three servers
  • Designed a virtualized environment sized for their actual workload
  • Migrated each server to a virtual machine with tested rollback points at each stage
  • Implemented automated backups with offsite replication
  • Decommissioned the physical hardware once all services were validated

The outcome

All three servers virtualized without any unplanned downtime. Backup coverage went from none to daily automated snapshots with 30 day retention. Hardware maintenance costs dropped significantly.

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