Ascent Operating Systems combines structured diagnosis, ERP readiness and hands-on operational improvement to identify the underlying problems, establish clear priorities and make improvements that last.
A structured, facilitated assessment of your manufacturing operation. We examine what is happening across your business, challenge assumptions and identify the operational weaknesses that are holding performance back.
We work with Australian SME manufacturing businesses whose growth, processes and information systems have become disconnected. We work with owners, CEOs, COOs, CFOs and operational leaders who want experienced, practical help.
Unreliable inventory, changing schedules, incomplete job information, expediting and daily firefighting.
Businesses planning an ERP investment, recovering from a difficult implementation or working around systems they cannot trust.
Facilitated assessments, site visits where appropriate and implementation support anchored to measurable outcomes.
The assessment is the engine. Experienced operational leadership turns the findings into action. Reports and reassessments make the progress visible.
Work with your leadership and operational teams to establish the facts, assess maturity and understand the causes behind recurring problems.
Translate the findings into a practical sequence of improvements, with named responsibilities and clear measures of success.
Help implement better processes, routines and controls. Reassess where appropriate so progress can be measured, not assumed.
Start with the facts, then make the improvements that matter. ERP readiness is a specialised way into this same operational improvement process.
Understand why the business struggles to execute consistently. Through structured assessment and operational investigation, we identify where processes, management routines, data and systems need attention.
Receive a documented baseline, management priorities and a practical roadmap. The next step is your decision.
Work alongside management to strengthen operating controls, improve planning and execution, build accountability and restore reliable information flows.
We focus on practical outcomes and a bounded engagement—not permanent consultant dependency. Follow-up assessments can show where the operation has actually improved.
Our ERP Readiness review applies the same diagnostic discipline to processes, data and operational controls that determine whether an ERP implementation will succeed.
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30+ years on production floors. Not advising from the outside, actually doing it. Supply chain, procurement, production scheduling, inventory management, ERP implementations. The full stack, at real manufacturers, across Australia.
I built AscentOS because I spent 30 years watching the same problems repeat themselves in business after business. Inventory nobody trusted. Purchasing that ran through phone calls and spreadsheets. Production schedules that existed in 1 person's head. Leaders who knew something was wrong but could not get traction on fixing it.
The consulting approach and assessment methods I use are the ones I wish I had access to when I was running manufacturing operations. Built around how manufacturing actually works: diagnose the real problem, prioritise what matters and help management implement practical change that sticks.
Every engagement is with me directly. No junior staff, no handoffs, no account managers. You deal with the person who has run the operations you are trying to fix.
The Ascent approach draws on years of hands-on work in procurement, industrial manufacturing, materials management, operational leadership and ERP-enabled process change.
Improving how work is planned, materials are supplied, responsibilities are defined and operational performance is measured.
Connecting master data, purchasing, inventory, planning and shop-floor processes so management systems reflect the real business.
Examples describe areas of professional experience, not quantified client results or guarantees.
Start with a focused conversation about where performance is breaking down, what you have tried and what a practical next step might look like.
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