Operations & Technology Consulting for Contractors

ERP live. Systems connected. Projects on track.

Magnolia Ridge Advisors helps contractors and operating businesses finish ERP deployments, lead the implementation project, and build the integrations that make estimating, field data, payroll, and your ERP work as one system.

5Integrations, One Program
3Vendors, One Accountable Lead
100+Field Workers Synced Nightly
0Hours Re-Keyed by Hand

Three services. One goal: systems your team actually uses.

Software rarely fails on features — it fails on execution. We focus on the deployment, coordination, and connective work that gets platforms into production and keeps them there.

ERP Deployment

End-to-end implementation leadership — from assessment through go-live and stabilization. We also step into deployments that have already stalled and get them moving again.

  • Stalled project? We take over PM and get it back on schedule
  • UAT tracked to completion — not just started
  • Data migration verified, not assumed
  • Training that sticks, so support tickets drop after go-live
  • Stabilization support until your team owns the system

Project Management

A dedicated project lead who owns the plan, drives the vendors, and keeps every workstream accountable — so your leadership team gets a status update instead of a status meeting.

  • Every vendor accountable to one plan, not three separate ones
  • Milestones and risks tracked in one place — no chasing updates
  • Decisions logged the day they're made, not reconstructed later
  • Executive reporting that takes five minutes to read
  • One point of contact for every workstream

Custom Integrations

Purpose-built connections between the systems you already own — estimating, field time tracking, payroll, and ERP — so data moves automatically and matches to the cent, instead of by spreadsheet and hope.

  • Estimators click a button — a reconciled quote appears in seconds
  • Field hours sync nightly, per project and per cost code
  • Change orders verified field-by-field against the ERP automatically
  • Credentials stay in a secure cloud connector, never a shared file
  • Budget imports validated against the estimate before go-live

What it looks like when the work is actually done.

Adjectives are cheap. Here's what a recent engagement actually delivered — the specific mechanics, not just the outcomes.

Project Management

A stalled go-live, back under control

Took over project management for a large commercial mechanical/HVAC contractor whose ERP implementation was months past its go-live date — coordinating three software vendors and dozens of users across multiple trades.

4+ mopast go-live when we stepped in
Integration Architecture

Five integrations. Zero unknowns.

Designed a five-integration program connecting the client's estimating spreadsheets, field time-tracking hardware, and payroll system to their ERP — turning every open question into a proven design or a named decision before a line of code shipped.

5integrations, one architecture
Financial Controls

One click. A reconciled quote in seconds.

Estimators click one button in their Excel quote workbook and a draft quote appears in the ERP in seconds, with the quote number written back automatically. An enforced margin gate blocks below-margin quotes outright — it doesn't just flag them — and totals reconcile to the cent before anything is created.

To the centtotals reconcile, or nothing gets created
Audit & Compliance

Change orders checked field by field

A verification workflow checks every field of a change order against the ERP automatically. The verified sheet becomes the audit record — no manual cross-checking, no reconciling two versions of the truth.

Every fieldverified against the ERP automatically
Field Operations

100+ workers, reconciled every night

Approved field hours for 100+ workers move into the ERP every night, per project and per cost code. A daily reconciliation report flags any hours that don't match instead of silently dropping them.

100+field workers synced nightly
Secure by Design

Credentials never live in a spreadsheet

A secure cloud connector architecture on AWS means ERP credentials are never passed around a team in a file. Built once, it's now reused by four separate integrations — each one faster to ship than the last.

×4integrations on one secure connector

Assess honestly. Plan realistically. Execute relentlessly.

Every engagement starts with understanding where things actually stand — not where the status reports say they stand.

Assess

A structured, hands-on review of your systems, your data, your team, and your vendors. We find the real blockers.

Plan

A realistic roadmap with owners, dependencies, and milestones — built around how your team actually works.

Execute

We run the plan: driving vendors, closing issues, completing testing, and keeping decisions moving.

Stabilize

Go-live is the start, not the finish. We stay through stabilization until your team owns the system with confidence.

Small by design. Senior by default.

Magnolia Ridge Advisors is built on a simple observation: most software problems are actually project problems. Every engagement is led personally by the principal — running ERP go-lives, rescuing the ones that have stalled, and building the integrations that make systems from different vendors act like one connected platform. No account managers, no hand-offs — you work directly with the person doing the work.

Recent hands-on experience:
BuildOps Sage 300 Monday.com Excel/VBA Automation Secure AWS Connectors REST APIs

Have a system that needs to get live — or two that need to talk?

Tell us where things stand. We'll give you an honest read on what it will take to get there.

Email Magnolia Ridge Advisors

info@magnoliaridgeadvisors.com