Your Job Costing Runs on Tribal Knowledge.
Your Auditors Are Starting to Notice.
Manufacturers run on complexity that QuickBooks was never built to handle. Job costing blind spots. WIP visibility that arrives 45 days too late. CMMC deadlines that most IT partners can’t navigate. TechWise implements Business Central for manufacturers, managed IT across multi-site operations, and security built for DoD contract requirements, led by former controllers and operations leaders who have run manufacturing floors.
● Microsoft Solutions Partner
● Former controllers on every ERP engagement
● Compliance depth for regulated manufacturers
● Job costing · WIP · Multi-site expertise
What We Hear From Manufacturing
Manufacturing Leaders Tell Us
the Same Four Things.
The symptoms vary by company. The underlying problems are remarkably consistent across manufacturing operations at this scale. These are the conversations that begin every TechWise manufacturing engagement.
The Blind Job
“We find out 45 days later whether we made money.”
Real-time job costing does not exist in QuickBooks or legacy ERP configurations. By the time the job closes, the margin is a surprise and the lessons are too late to apply to the next bid. Manufacturers need profitability visibility on Day 3, not Day 63.
The CMMC Deadline
“We have DoD contracts. Our compliance gaps are real.”
CMMC 2.0 is not optional for DoD prime contractors and subcontractors. Most manufacturers have compliance gaps they cannot close without a partner who has actually navigated CMMC before. Generalist IT shops cannot. Pure security firms leave the architecture unfinished.
The Multi-Site Break
“Three plants, three vendors, zero standards.”
Every acquisition adds a new phone system, a new IT partner, a new set of workflows. Chicago runs one stack, the Ohio plant runs another, and nobody can produce a consolidated operations report without three exports and an Excel macro. Growing manufacturers break every local IT partner.
The QuickBooks Ceiling
“We bid on complex jobs in spreadsheets that should be in the ERP.”
QuickBooks Enterprise stretches to about $40M before the limits become operationally painful. WIP tracking, multi-entity consolidation, bill of materials version control, and capacity planning are all architectural limits Intuit built in. Configuration cannot fix them.
Compliance & Regulatory Depth
Compliance Requirements
Most Partners Can’t Navigate.
Manufacturers with DoD contracts face CMMC 2.0 requirements that are not optional. Manufacturers in regulated industries face HIPAA, SOX, or quality management system requirements that most IT partners treat as an afterthought. TechWise handles compliance as an integrated component of the IT and ERP engagement, architecture, configuration, documentation, and ongoing management in one relationship, not a separate compliance project bolted on afterward.
Services for Manufacturing
One Partner. Five Practices.
All Five Configured for Manufacturing Complexity.
TechWise serves manufacturing companies across five practice areas, each configured for the specific compliance requirements, operational patterns, and buyer priorities of manufacturing. Each is configured for the specific compliance requirements, operational patterns, and buyer priorities of this industry.
ERP & Business Central
Your Month-End Close Should Take Three Days, Not Fifteen.
Business Central implementations for manufacturers, job costing, WIP tracking, BOM version control, capacity planning, and CMMC-ready security architecture built in from Day 1. Led by former controllers who have closed books on manufacturing operations.
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Security & Compliance
The Wrong Security Partner Costs More Than No Security at All.
CMMC 2.0 for DoD contractors. SOC 2 readiness for companies heading toward a transaction. Security configured into the architecture from Day 1, not bolted on when auditors arrive.
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Managed IT
Your IT Should Run as Reliably as Your Production Floor.
Full-service managed IT for multi-site manufacturers, helpdesk, infrastructure, cloud, and Microsoft 365 governance. One partner across plants, one monthly cost, no finger-pointing between vendors.
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Microsoft 365
CMMC 2.0 Controls Run Through Microsoft 365.
Conditional access, MFA, Purview for CUI data classification, and endpoint protection are CMMC 2.0 controls configured inside Microsoft 365. TechWise configures these as part of the CMMC engagement, not as a separate IT project that runs in parallel.
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Microsoft Licensing
DoD Contracts Require the Right M365 Licensing Tier.
CMMC 2.0 compliance requires Microsoft 365 features that are only available in E3 and E5 tiers. Manufacturers running Business Premium are missing the controls their DoD contracts require. TechWise reviews licensing before any CMMC work begins.
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Manufacturing Runs on Complexity.
Your Partner Should Understand It.
The conversation starts with understanding your operation, the close cycle, the compliance exposure, the multi-site complexity, and the specific systems standing in the way. TechWise serves manufacturers from a team that has run these businesses before.
Tell Us What’s Broken.
We’ll Tell You How to Fix It.
Every managed engagement starts with a free assessment of your environment: no scope surprises. Tell us what’s broken, what’s keeping you up at night, or what you’re trying to build. We’ll tell you exactly what it takes and which model fits.