Industries
Professional Services
In a services business the inventory is time. We implement the systems that make utilisation, project profitability and revenue recognition visible weekly rather than at year-end.
- Sector focus
- Utilisation, project margin and revenue recognition without a spreadsheet in the middle.
- Services most used here
- Oracle NetSuite · Odoo ERP · Microsoft 365
What we find
The four problems we are usually called in about
Recognisable? Each one has a root cause in process or data design rather than in software capability.
Utilisation is known too late
Timesheets arrive weekly at best, so bench time and over-servicing are discovered after the month they occurred.
Project margin is opaque
Fee, cost, subcontractor spend and expenses sit in different places, so nobody knows which engagements actually earn.
Revenue recognition is manual
Milestone and percentage-of-completion revenue is calculated in a spreadsheet each period, and audit adjustments follow.
Pipeline and delivery are disconnected
Sales commits dates that resourcing cannot support, because CRM and delivery planning never meet.
Services
Most relevant to professional services
Oracle NetSuite
Cloud ERP for multi-entity groups that have outgrown local accounting software.
NETSUITEOdoo ERP
Modular, open-source ERP for growing companies that want to start small and stay flexible.
ODOOMicrosoft 365
Identity, email, files and collaboration deployed as a secured, governed tenant.
M365Power BI
A governed semantic model first, then dashboards executives actually open.
POWER_BICustom Software
Built only where the platform genuinely cannot reach — and built to be handed over.
CUSTOM_DEVAdoption & Training
Change management, role-based training and measured usage — because adoption is the deliverable.
ADOPTIONCase study
One ledger for three entities, closed in four days
A spinning, weaving and garment group running three disconnected accounting systems consolidated onto a single NetSuite ledger — with a governed item master and export documentation generated from order data.
The blueprint stage was uncomfortable in the best way. They made us settle arguments about our own process before a single screen was configured — which is why the go-live was boring.
FAQ
Professional Services, specifically
Yes, including blended engagements, retainers and milestone billing, each with the correct revenue-recognition treatment configured rather than calculated externally.
Yes — Dynamics 365, HubSpot or Salesforce, so an opportunity becomes a resourced project without re-keying, and pipeline feeds capacity planning.
Granular enough to bill and to learn, no more. Usually project plus task at 30-minute resolution. Anything finer collects resentment instead of data.
Other sectors
Also delivered in
Manufacturing
Costed BOMs, real shop-floor capture and margin you can defend line by line.
MANUFACTURINGTextile
Lot, shade and width tracked end to end — from bale to shipped container.
TEXTILEDistribution
Stock accuracy, route discipline and margin visible at SKU and customer level.
DISTRIBUTIONRetail
POS, stock and online joined into one inventory and one customer view.
RETAILNext step
Talk to the lead who covers professional services
Forty-five minutes, no deck. Bring one process that frustrates you and we will tell you how we would approach it.