Iowa Manufacturers: Up to $75K May Be Available
The Letter B Technology Planning Review maps how your ERP, shop floor, quality, inventory, and reporting connect today, finds where time and data are being lost, and turns it into a prioritized 1 to 5 year technology roadmap.
Sequenced by operational impact, cost, and risk, so each year builds on the last.
Most manufacturers do not lack technology. They lack a clear sequence for connecting what they have, retiring what is risky, and investing where it will move output, quality, and margin.
Budget goes to whatever failed most recently, while the constraints that limit output year after year stay in place.
Each department buys its own fix, and production, quality, and inventory data ends up in more places instead of fewer.
Aging applications, Access databases, and unsupported servers keep running until they do not, and replacement becomes an emergency.
Production, scrap, and downtime information gets captured but rarely reaches planners and leadership in time to act on it.
Critical quoting, scheduling, and tracking logic lives in files that only a few people understand or can safely change.
Leadership wants AI, but disconnected systems and inconsistent data make it hard to know where it would actually help.
We review the systems, workflows, and data behind production, then sort what matters most into a plan your team can act on.
ERP, accounting, quoting, inventory, quality, and shop floor tools, and how information moves between them today.
Where work order, production, scrap, and downtime data is captured, re-keyed, or lost before it reaches a decision.
The aging applications, databases, spreadsheets, and infrastructure the operation depends on, and what a failure would cost.
Integration, automation, tracking, reporting, and AI opportunities ranked by operational impact, effort, and dependency.
How priority projects could be phased across budget years, and where grant programs may help move them forward.
The roadmap is yours. Use it to set 2027 priorities, align operations and finance, and evaluate any technology partner, including us.
One view of your systems, integrations, manual handoffs, and risk points.
What to fix first, scored by impact, effort, cost, and dependency.
A phased sequence that turns priorities into a plan your team can act on.
A short summary for owners and executives to use in 2027 budget planning.
Each phase builds on the one before it, so 2027 investments set up the work that follows instead of competing with it.
Close the data gaps costing the most time, connect the ERP with production and inventory workflows, and address the highest-risk legacy system.
Replace aging applications in phases and automate the repetitive handoffs, tracking, and reporting your teams still do by hand.
Use connected, trusted operational data for advanced reporting, multi-site consistency, and practical AI.
Quoted configurations now translate into a structured bill of materials for downstream build accuracy, with pricing guardrails and one-click approvals.
Read the case studyEncode, print, and scan software that helped suppliers meet the mandate and fed tagging data into existing ERP and warehouse systems through APIs.
Read the case studyAn API-driven quoting and B2B commerce engine connecting shop management systems and supplier APIs across the automotive parts ecosystem.
Read the case studyA staged Azure migration that moved a high-volume food distribution system beyond its on-premise limits with a near-zero-downtime cutover.
Read the case studyReal operations, real outcomes. This client shares what it was like to work with Letter B — from understanding the workflow to delivering software the team relies on every day.
More proof in case studies — or start with a conversation about your operation.
The review works best when leadership, operations, and whoever owns the ERP are in the room together.
Deciding where 2027 capital and operating budget should go, and what to defer.
Living with the workarounds, re-keying, and blind spots between systems every day.
Responsible for keeping critical systems supported, secure, and connected.
Tell us about your operation and what is already on the 2027 agenda.
→A short pre-review questionnaire on your systems, workflows, and known pain points.
→We walk through how work and data move through your operation with the people who run it.
→We present findings, priorities, and the 1 to 5 year roadmap to your leadership team.
Programs such as Iowa's Manufacturing 4.0 Technology Investment Program help eligible manufacturers fund practical technology projects. We flag where your priorities may fit as part of the review.
Usually not. Most roadmaps start by connecting and extending the systems you already rely on. Replacement only comes up when a system is genuinely blocking the operation, and even then it can be phased.
Tell us what is already on the 2027 agenda and where your operation is losing time between systems. We will follow up to schedule the review with your team.
Bring the problems that cost the most time. Building the plan is what the review is for.
