What leaders see
People reconcile the same records repeatedly.
Orders, inventory, production, quality, and shipment status move through exports, re-entry, calls, and side files.
Manufacturing Services
Manufacturing · ERP Integration
ERP Integration Architecture
Your employees should not be the integration layer. When manufacturing teams copy orders, inventory, production, customer, and financial information between systems, routine work becomes slow and unreliable. We define record ownership first, then engineer the interfaces, recovery paths, controls, and monitoring the operating flow requires.
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The Business Problem
Disconnected systems turn employees into middleware.
Integration problems begin when systems exchange fields without agreement about the operating record, timing, ownership, validation, recovery, and exception response.
What is actually happening
The handoff has no governed contract.
Identifiers, source ownership, timing, validation, monitoring, and recovery differ across systems and organizations.
What gets worse
More connections create more uncertainty.
Point-to-point fixes multiply while failures become harder to detect, explain, assign, and recover.
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What Changes
What ERP Integration Architecture includes.
When manufacturing teams copy orders, inventory, production, customer, and financial information between systems, routine work becomes slow and unreliable. We define record ownership first, then engineer the interfaces, recovery paths, controls, and monitoring the operating flow requires.
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Integration Landscape Mapping
Document every system that touches your ERP — inbound and outbound data flows, frequency, format, and business criticality. You cannot govern what you have not mapped.
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API & Middleware Architecture
Design the integration layer — direct API, middleware platform, or hybrid — based on volume, latency requirements, and system capabilities. Choose the right pattern for each connection.
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Data Contract Definition
Define the data contract for every integration: field mapping, validation rules, error handling, retry logic, and SLA. Both systems agree on the contract before development starts.
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EDI Implementation
Implement EDI/AS2 connections for customer and supplier transactions — 810, 850, 855, 856, 997. Compliance testing, trading partner onboarding, and error monitoring included.
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Real-Time vs. Batch Optimization
Set exchange timing from the business decision, source-system limits, transaction volume, tolerance for stale data, and recovery requirement instead of defaulting every connection to real time.
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Monitoring & Alerting
Monitor acknowledgments, latency, validation failures, retries, reconciliations, and unresolved exceptions so the accountable owner can respond before downstream work depends on a missing record.
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How It Fits Manufacturing
How ERP Integration Architecture fits the manufacturing operation.
Integration EngineeringWhich records must move, which system owns them, how current they must be, and what happens when exchange fails.
Governance dependencyEach interface needs an accountable source, defined identifiers, validation, recovery, monitoring, and ownership before teams can trust the exchange.
Records and handoffs to connect
orders
inventory and materials
production status
quality records
shipments and exceptions
What must be defined before engineering begins
- What the manufacturing business needs to change and why.
- Which systems, records, risks, and readiness gaps shape the work.
- What should be built, how it fits the architecture, and in what order.
Related Services and Planning
What to evaluate next.
Follow the dependencies behind this service instead of treating it as an isolated project.
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Customer, Supplier & Partner Portals
Expose approved records and transactions through permissioned customer, supplier, and partner experiences.
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Operational Analytics
Reconcile connected records into dependable operating measures, status, and decisions.
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Workflow and Exception Automation
Route the actions and exceptions that connected systems reveal.
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Start Your Transformation Roadmap
New material work begins in Launchpad so Metrotechs can validate the operating need, evidence, feasibility, architecture direction, and sequence before engineering begins.
Explore next stepStart With the Manufacturing Objective
Define the smallest sound response and delivery sequence.
Metrotechs determines what the operation actually requires before selecting technology. New material work begins in Launchpad so the evidence, feasibility, architecture direction, priorities, and sequence can be validated before engineering begins.
Metrotechs designs, builds, integrates, and supports the approved solution for the manufacturing operation.
A technical-service request does not bypass discovery. The proposed solution remains a working hypothesis until Metrotechs validates it in Launchpad.
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Delivery sequence
How Metrotechs delivers ERP Integration Architecture.
When manufacturing teams copy orders, inventory, production, customer, and financial information between systems, routine work becomes slow and unreliable. We define record.
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Integration Discovery
Inventory all current and required integrations. Document data flows, volumes, frequencies, and business owners. Identify gaps and fragile connections.
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Architecture Design
Design the target integration architecture — middleware selection, API strategy, data contracts, and error handling patterns. Document everything before build starts.
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Build & Test
Develop integrations in priority order with unit testing and integration testing at each milestone. EDI compliance testing with trading partners included.
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End-to-End Validation
Test the full data flow from source to ERP to downstream systems with real transaction data. Validate round-trip accuracy and timing under production-like volume.
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Production & Monitoring
Deploy with monitoring dashboards, alerting rules, and runbook documentation. Handoff to your team with training on troubleshooting and common failure patterns.
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FAQ
Questions that usually decide the scope.
Straight answers to what manufacturing leaders ask before committing budget to this work.
We choose the pattern from the business requirement: record ownership, volume, timing, recoverability, auditability, security, and the number of systems involved. Direct APIs, middleware, events, and scheduled exchange are options; none is the default for every connection.