ERP Software for Manchester Manufacturers, Built Around Your Shop Floor.

No, and we will not pretend otherwise. TechAuditPros is an engineering team in Kochi, India, working for UK clients remotely — 4.5 hours ahead of Manchester in summer and 5.5 in winter, which gives you a live overlap window every morning and early afternoon. If your project genuinely needs someone walking the shop floor weekly, a local firm is the better answer and we will say so on the call. If it needs software built properly and supported every month, distance has not been the problem for our clients in North America or Australia.

The same things it needs anywhere, in this order: know what stock you actually hold across sites, turn an order into a works order with a real promise date, tell you the true cost of a job when it closes, and hand clean figures to Xero or Sage without anyone re-typing them. Around here that usually also means handling subcontract operations — plating, powder coating, heat treatment sent out and brought back — because so much of the local supply chain works that way.

Greater Manchester’s manufacturing base is broad rather than single-industry: textiles and technical fabrics, food and drink, plastics and packaging, engineering and metal fabrication, electronics, and increasingly advanced materials work linked to the universities. We also build for distribution and e-commerce operations around the M60 and the airport corridor, and for professional services in the city centre. The ERP core is the same; the production layer differs by sector, which is what the audit establishes first.

No, and usually you should not. Sage or Xero stays as the book of record for accounts, and the ERP becomes the system of record for operations, feeding it clean figures through the official API. That keeps your accountant on software they trust, keeps you MTD-compliant for VAT, and stops the double entry that eats an afternoon a week.

Cloud ERP means the system runs on hosted infrastructure rather than a server in the corner of the office. For a Manchester manufacturer the practical benefits are that it is reachable from a second site, from a customer’s premises and from a phone on the shop floor, it is backed up without anyone remembering to do it, and it does not need replacing every five years. Where connectivity on an older industrial estate is genuinely unreliable we build offline-tolerant screens for scanning and job booking, so the line does not stop when the internet does.

Six to ten weeks to a first working module on your own data — normally stock or works orders, whichever is hurting most — then the rest in phases over roughly four to nine months. You are using each piece as it lands rather than waiting for one big go-live weekend.

One agreed monthly fee, quoted in writing on the call once we have seen how you actually run. For orientation, published UK list prices for subscription ERP sit around £74–£112 per user per month before implementation, and Sage 200 starts near £374 a month — which is why per-seat pricing becomes the problem as you add shifts and sites. There is no upfront project fee here and no separate implementation invoice.

You do, entirely. The code, the database and the documentation are yours from day one, hosted in a cloud account in your name in AWS London (eu-west-2) so the data stays in the UK. We work under an NDA and a UK GDPR data processing agreement, with access you can revoke.

Yes, and it is usually the same conversation. The same team builds the ERP, the website and the search work, which is why the site can show live stock or lead times without a fragile integration in between. Plenty of Manchester businesses come to us for one and add the others when the first has paid for itself.

We look at how an order moves through your business today — the spreadsheets, the whiteboard, the bit only one person understands — and tell you where software would actually help and where it would just add admin. You get that assessment whether or not you hire us.