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Distribution: score the WMS-ERP gap before the next cycle count.

Your distribution center runs on a WMS, an ERP, and a yard system nobody has patched in eighteen months. The CFO is asking which contracts to cut, the operations lead is asking which integrations to fix, and the answer to both questions lives in the same audit.

The distribution and warehousing concentration in Hampton Roads sits in Chesapeake, feeding the Port of Virginia inland, and along the Suffolk Route 58 corridor. Greenbrier, Cavalier Industrial Park, and the corridor east from Bowers Hill carry the small-distributor traffic that does not show up in the port-logistics conversation. Most run $5M to $30M in revenue with 20 to 150 employees.

The pain is not Amazon-scale fulfillment. It is a WMS that does not talk to the ERP without a nightly export that breaks, inventory accuracy below ninety percent on cycle counts, scanner workflow nobody standardized, and a CFO actively running the contract calendar wondering which renewals are dead weight.

Pallet racking and aisles inside a distribution warehouse

Where it usually hurts

Key concerns in this sector.

  • WMS-to-ERP integration

    What talks to what, and what fails silently. We map the dependency chain before the next outage forces it.

  • ERP fit for a $5M-$30M operator

    When QuickBooks Enterprise stops scaling and what comes next, and the order between a WMS modernization and an ERP swap.

  • Scanner and barcode workflow

    The transaction velocity and error rates that tell you whether the floor is using the tools or working around them.

  • Patch and security posture

    On the systems that run uninterrupted twenty-four hours a day. The Controls pillar scores this directly.

  • SaaS spend rationalization

    The seats nobody opens and the auto-renew nobody flagged. The audit usually pays for itself on the first cancellation.

Services we apply here

How we engage in this sector.

You can have the number by Friday.

The Pulse is free, sixty minutes, and the only thing you walk out with is your CTGA score and the three gaps that cost you the most. If we are not the right fit, you keep the score and we both move on.

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