Fractional Business Systems Analyst · Process Mining & Operational Excellence · Manufacturing & Distribution

Between your shop floor and your software, there’s a gap. We work in it.

DataProStudio gives SMB manufacturers and distributors a fractional business systems analyst — process mining, ERP rollouts, supply-chain mapping, RMA clean-up — without adding headcount.

  • Work orders slip and nobody can say exactly where the time went.
  • Every ERP rollout eats months of your best people’s time.
  • The system says one thing. The floor does another.
Process mining · ERP · WMS · MES · Supply chain · Reverse logistics
Process map · order-to-shipLive
ERP WMS RECEIVE INSPECT STOCK 0.4 d 1.1 d PICK PACK SHIP 0.2 d RMA DISPOSITION ▲ BOTTLENECK 11.2 d avg A PRIORITIZED FIX LIST — NOT A 40-PAGE AUDIT
Illustrative · mined from event data, not from what the ERP says should happen
Services

Four ways to plug us in

Senior, hands-on help scoped to a project or a few days a week — not a body-shop contract.

Process mining · ERP · SCM

Process mining & business analysis

Mine your actual event data to see how work really flows, document requirements, and translate between operations and IT. Support for ERP rollouts, upgrades, and reporting clean-up projects.

Tier-2 · ERP · SaaS

Application support

Functional support for ERP, WMS, and SaaS systems your team relies on — plus user guides, knowledge bases, and training sessions that stick.

ERP · MES rollouts

Project coordination

Track milestones, manage project documents, and coordinate vendors. Keep the rollout on schedule without the overhead of a full-time PM.

Returns · WMS

RMA & reverse logistics

Analyze return workflows and bottlenecks. Improve ERP/WMS integration and reporting to cut cycle time and recover margin.

Also on the bench

Data science & reporting

Dashboards, forecasting, and one-off analyses when a question needs more than a pivot table — built on the data you already have.

Why fractional

The expertise, not the headcount

Flexible

Part-time or project-based. Scale up for the rollout, scale down when it ships.

Affordable

Senior help at a fraction of a full-time salary — you pay for the hours the project actually needs.

Practical

Hands-on experience on both sides of the fence: warehouse floors and system configs.

A full-time senior business analyst in BC runs roughly $110k+ a year before benefits. Most SMB projects need that expertise for a few months, a few days a week — that’s the gap fractional support fills.

Our method

Discover first. Automate last.

The same sequence on every engagement — whether the fix ends up being a process change, an ERP tweak, or DPS8020 running it going forward.

1Discover

We map what’s actually happening — from your ERP, WMS, and floor data, not from the org chart or the SOP binder.

2Prioritize the 20% that matters

Find the handful of bottlenecks actually costing you time and margin — not a 40-item backlog, just what’s worth fixing first.

3Optimize

Redesign the workflow around the fix that matters most, and prove it works by hand before anyone touches a system config.

4Automate last, not first

Only once the fix is proven. That’s when your ERP — or DPS8020 — takes it from there.

Most software vendors start at step 4. We start by finding out where it’s actually worth it.

Introducing DPS8020

One platform. Wherever your data needs to live.

Everything we learn working with manufacturers is becoming DPS8020 — a self-serve process-mining platform that turns ERP, MES, and IoT data into measurable improvements in throughput, quality, and compliance. Identify the 20% of operational changes that drive 80% of your productivity gains.

Choose the deployment model that best fits your security, compliance, and operational-sovereignty requirements.

Cloud

Canadian & EU hosting

  • Hosted exclusively with Canadian and European infrastructure providers
  • Designed to keep operational data under Canadian and EU jurisdiction
  • Deploy in weeks, subscription pricing
  • Ideal for organizations that want a managed, low-maintenance solution

Interested in early access to DPS8020? Get in touch →

Typical engagements

Where fractional makes the difference

ERP / WMS rollout support

Requirements, UAT, data clean-up, and go-live support alongside your vendor.

3–6 mo · part-time

Supply-chain process mapping

Current-state maps mined from your own event data, waste analysis, and a prioritized clean-up plan.

4–8 wks

Vendor & milestone coordination

One throat to choke across integrators, vendors, and internal teams.

ongoing · ~1 d/wk

RMA cycle-time reduction

Find where returns stall, fix the workflow and the reporting behind it.

6–10 wks

Ad-hoc ERP / SaaS support

A retainer for the questions your vendor answers too slowly.

retainer

Durations are typical, not quotes — every engagement is scoped first.

Sectors

Where we’ve worked

Food & beverage distribution Industrial equipment E-commerce fulfillment Electronics & RMA-heavy retail Third-party logistics
Documentation

How we work, in writing.

The method and the approach, laid out before you sign anything.

Rev A drafts · revised as engagements produce measured results.

Contact

Ready when you are.

Most engagements start with a free 30-minute consultation: you describe the project or the pain, we tell you honestly whether fractional support fits.