Free self-assessment
ERP readiness assessment for medical equipment distributors.
Ten questions about how your operation actually runs: traceability, consignment, service schedules, tenders, month-end. Three minutes. A score out of 100 and an honest reading of it. No email required.
Before you start
Answer for how things work today, not how they should.
Each question has three answers. Choose the one closest to your reality.
- 10 questions, single choice
- About 3 minutes
- Scored 0 to 100, result on screen
Question 1 of 10
How many separate systems does it take to run the business day to day?
Count everything: the accounting package, the CRM, the warehouse spreadsheet, the service calendar, the shared drive.
How does an order travel from quote to invoice?
How do you track lot and serial numbers, and expiry dates?
How much visibility do you have into consignment stock at customer sites?
How are preventive maintenance and service contract schedules managed?
How is tender and quote paperwork prepared?
When you do a physical inventory count, what happens?
How long does month-end close take?
How does management get its numbers?
How often is data re-keyed from one system into another?
Your result
0/100
Running on memory and goodwill
Your company works because a few people carry it in their heads. Every quote, delivery and service visit depends on someone remembering. You pay for it in expired stock, missed service visits and month-ends that never quite close. If one of those people leaves, the work stalls. New software will not fix this on its own. Bought first, it usually makes things worse.
Recommended next step: First look at how the work really flows, then choose a system. On a free 30-minute visit we look at it together on one order.
Everything runs through spreadsheets
You have programs, but spreadsheets do the real work between them. Every time someone retypes, a lot number, an expiry date or a price can change without anyone noticing. The team covers it with care and overtime. That holds until the work grows or a key person leaves. The base is there. What is missing is one place where orders, stock and service live.
Recommended next step: Decide where orders, stock and service will live, then move them over in order. On the free 30-minute visit we look at where to start.
Half in the system, half beside it
Part of the work runs in a real system, and you trust those parts. The errors are left where the programs do not connect: stock at customers you cannot see, service kept beside the system, reports someone builds by hand at month-end. Connecting them takes less work than the first implementation did. That is where the biggest saving is now. The biggest risk is buying one more tool that connects to nothing.
Recommended next step: List those places, estimate what they cost, and fix them in order, the most expensive first. On the free 30-minute visit we look at which comes first.
Nearly there
Most of the work already runs in connected programs, and you mostly trust the data. What is left is small: the last side spreadsheets, documents that repeat, and reports someone still builds by hand. The real question is whether your current program can carry that too, or whether it is now holding you back.
Recommended next step: We can look at that together on a free 30-minute visit. If your program holds, we will tell you so. You may only need care, not a new project.
We see the result too, so we can suggest what we would fix first.