One point of contact with twelve years of ERP in manufacturing.

I'm Dennis. From Eindhoven I've worked in ERP at manufacturers for twelve years: selection, implementation, and cleaning up what went wrong. From truck factory to field-robot startup, from barn equipment to additive manufacturing — always the same question in different clothes: how do we make the systems match the work?

In all those years I kept seeing the same processes that fall just outside the ERP and therefore end up in Excel. The on-call roster. The quote costing. The knowledge of that one engineer. Nothing wrong with that — until the company starts leaning on it and the spreadsheet becomes more critical than the ERP itself.

Those processes we now turn into real applications. Fast, because we know what we're looking at: after twelve years, nobody needs to explain a BoM, a work order or an on-call roster to me. And fast because AI speeds up the building — but what gets built, and what does not, comes from the experience.

The work is growing and colleagues are joining. Whoever joins, you keep one point of contact and the responsibility for the substance does not shift to a sales or delivery apparatus.

Outside SupplyUp: triathlete. That explains the discipline and the early mornings; beyond that it has surprisingly little to do with it.

“AI speeds up the building. Twelve years in manufacturing decides what gets built, and above all what does not.”