Enterprise Application Development
Systems that satisfy security, compliance and a thousand users.
Software & Product Engineering
The operational system of record, built to fit
ERP projects have a poor reputation because most of them ask the business to conform to the software. We invert that: model your operation accurately, then automate it.
- Engagement
- Assessment then modular delivery
- Typical timeline
- 4–18 months
- Delivered across
- All 50 US states
Overview
An ERP is the system that answers what you have, what you owe, what you are making and what it costs. When it is wrong, every downstream decision is wrong with it. That is why ERP work demands unusual care about data accuracy, transaction integrity and the unglamorous mechanics of inventory, costing and reconciliation.
Full custom ERP is rarely the right call — the surface area is enormous. What is frequently right is a hybrid: keep a proven platform for finance and general ledger, and build the operational modules that are specific to your business, connected by a reliable integration layer. You get standard where standard is fine and bespoke where bespoke is worth paying for.
We also do a lot of ERP rescue work: implementations that stalled, customizations that block upgrades, or systems whose data nobody trusts. That work starts with an honest assessment of what is recoverable, delivered as a decision document rather than a proposal.
- Inventory accuracy achievable with barcode workflows
- 99%+Inventory accuracy achievable with barcode workflows
- Typical month-end close compression
- Days→hrsTypical month-end close compression
- Single reconciled operational data set
- 1 truthSingle reconciled operational data set
Business benefits
What erp development changes for you
The reasons this work earns its budget, stated as outcomes rather than features.
Modules that match your operation
Production, inventory, purchasing, job costing and scheduling modeled on how you actually run, including the exceptions that break standard packages.
Real-time operational visibility
Stock, work-in-progress, capacity and margin visible as they change, instead of a picture assembled from spreadsheets after month end.
Finance integration that reconciles
Clean interfaces to your accounting platform with automated journal entries, reconciliation reporting and a clear audit trail.
Costing you can act on
Accurate landed, standard and actual costs by job, product and customer, so pricing and mix decisions rest on evidence.
Built for the shop floor
Barcode and RFID scanning, touch-friendly terminals and offline tolerance for warehouse, plant and field environments.
Upgrade-safe extension
Customization through documented extension points and APIs rather than core modification, so vendor updates stay possible.
Problems solved
If any of this sounds familiar
These are the situations clients describe in the first conversation, and what we do about each.
“Inventory in the system never matches the warehouse.”
Transaction-level tracking with scanned receipt, move and pick confirmations, plus cycle counting workflows that correct drift continuously.
“Month-end close takes two weeks of manual work.”
Automated posting, exception-based reconciliation and a close checklist with system-tracked status, so accounting reviews rather than assembles.
“The ERP was customized so heavily it can no longer be upgraded.”
We map every customization, move logic out of the core into supported extension points, and restore a viable upgrade path.
“Production scheduling still runs on a whiteboard.”
Capacity-aware scheduling with real routing, constraints and changeover times, feeding live status back to sales and planning.
Our process
How we deliver it
Each stage has a defined output, so you always know what you are getting and when.
- 01
Operational discovery
Walk the floor and the process, document material and information flow, and quantify where accuracy and time are lost today.
- 02
Fit-gap analysis
What a standard platform covers, what must be bespoke, and the integration architecture between them — with costs against each option.
- 03
Data foundation
Item master, bills of material, routings and customer data cleansed and structured before any transactional work begins.
- 04
Module delivery
One functional area at a time, live and stable, before starting the next. Parallel running where the risk warrants it.
- 05
Rollout and reinforcement
Site-by-site deployment, floor-level training, on-site hypercare and a stabilisation period before the next module begins.
Technologies used
The tools behind the work
Chosen for maintainability and hiring depth rather than novelty. We will justify any choice on request, and we avoid technology that makes you dependent on us.
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- React
- Odoo
- NetSuite API
- SAP integration
- MQTT
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Power BI
Industries served
Where this work lands most often
Sector context changes what good looks like. These are the industries where we have delivered this service repeatedly.
Client results
This service, in practice
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Manufacturing · 14 months
Modernizing a 19-year-old ERP without replacing it
A precision components manufacturer was quoting from costs that were months out of date. Rather than a replacement program, we modernized incrementally around the existing system.
“The previous attempts failed because they asked us to bet the company on a single cutover. This one never did.”
Chief Operating Officer, Precision components manufacturer
- Inventory accuracy, up from 82%
- 97.8%Inventory accuracy, up from 82%
- Job costing, previously four to six weeks
- Same dayJob costing, previously four to six weeks
- Gross margin after quote model correction
- +6.4 ptsGross margin after quote model correction
- Unplanned production stoppages during rollout
- 0Unplanned production stoppages during rollout
Why Mova
What working with us on erp development is like
The same commitments apply to every engagement, regardless of size or service.
A defined first step
We scope a fixed-price starting point so you can evaluate us on erp development before committing to a program.
Senior people, named
The team you meet is the team that delivers. You will know exactly who is accountable.
You own the output
Code, accounts, files and documentation are yours from day one, with no lock-in of any kind.
Measured, then reported
We baseline before starting and report against it honestly — including the months that fall short.
Questions
ERP Development: common questions
The questions we are asked most about erp development, answered directly.
For most businesses, a commercial platform for finance plus custom operational modules is the right balance. Full custom ERP makes sense only when your operating model is genuinely unlike anything the market serves — which is rarer than vendors and buyers both assume.
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Next step
Ready to talk about erp development?
Thirty minutes with someone who has delivered this work. We will tell you what it would take, roughly what it would cost, and whether Mova is the right fit.
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