Industrial equipment manaufacturing

Embrace the evolution and use equipment manufacturing software to your advantage.

Technology built specifically for equipment manufacturing

Give your industrial equipment manufacturing company a technology HeadSTART with proven applications designed to deliver value across your business. With solutions tailored to your industry, you’ll gain insights into your customers’ operations and their clients, helping you identify and address supply chain risks before they become issues. HeadSTART for equipment manufacturing empowers you to build a resilient supply chain, create more value from customer relationships, enhance customer experiences, unify data for better insights, and innovate quickly to drive business transformation.

control costs

Control costs once and for all and make your best decisions.

You deserve tools and people who know your business. That’s why Sikich crafted HEADSTART for Equipment Manufacturing, built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 technology. It supports your core processes of designing, configuring, manufacturing, selling, delivering, and servicing. Rather than starting from a blank slate, we offer a preconfigured industry solution, based on best practices to help you overcome industry challenges.

Growth

Maximize productivity and profit across the value chain.

Optimize for shop floor efficiency

Real-time shop floor visibility boosts efficiency, inventory control, and customer service—benefiting teams across the business.

Master your map

Dynamics 365 offers built-in tools for MRP and asset maintenance, to schedule, prevent breakdowns and plan around downtime.

Increase warehouse and transportation visibility

Dynamics 365 automates warehousing and transport, ensuring visibility, accuracy, and customer trust.

Understand demand

Dynamics 365 gives real-time sales pipeline and performance insights, helping sellers hit quotas and leaders stay aligned.

Forecast intelligently

Dynamics 365 turns your sales pipeline into a dynamic forecast, tracking deal movement to improve demand planning and quarterly outcomes.

Expand equipment revenue through rentals

Equipment-as-a-Service combines rentals and sales to stabilize revenue, strengthen ties, and drive growth.

HEADSTART

HeadSTART ^SM for equipment manufacturers

Sikich developed the HeadSTART approach to streamline Microsoft Dynamics 365 for finance, supply chain and CRM deployments. It can reduce project duration and cost to maximize your investment.

Get a working prototype in 6 weeks

Get up and running with your system quickly using your sample data.

2000+ pre-set parameters

Built in proven practices for equipment manufacturers.

Outcomes prioritized

By starting with an industry-tailored ERP foundation, we simplify implementation and reduce the effort and change management required.

insights

The pulse of digital transformation in manufacturing

A survey of 150 manufacturing executives shows optimism for digital transformation and AI. The report highlights top technology investments, reasons for adopting ERP, key benefits of tech, and growing AI interest—created in partnership with Manufacturing Dive.

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Everything has changed. Employees work in diverse ways and need seamless system access. Customer demands are shifting. Supply chains are disrupted. Modern ERP and CRM solutions help you stay resilient and ready for what’s next.

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