Logistics & Distribution
Access Migration for Logistics & Distribution
Your Access database from 2009 still runs the shop. We move it to the cloud with your business processes intact: reviewed, blueprinted, prototyped, and approved by you at every checkpoint. Dispatch, driver logs, and warehouse counts that only agree at month end.
Sound familiar?
Where haulers and distributors usually get stuck
- One Access file on one shared drive runs a department
- It only works on one machine, and that machine is old
- The person who built it retired, and the forms are held together with hope
- Nobody will touch it because nobody knows what breaks
What's included
What you actually get
- Full audit of tables, queries, and reports
- Data cleaning and migration with zero loss
- Modern cloud front end your team can use anywhere
- Parallel-run period so nothing breaks
- Documentation and training
The same business logic, on modern cloud footing, with nothing lost.
Logistics & Distribution
The systems we end up in
Most haulers and distributors are running some version of these four. Access Migration work usually starts by making them agree with each other.
Dispatch and load boards
Driver logs and compliance records
Warehouse receiving and pick lists
Rate quoting and freight billing
What changes
- One live view of loads, drivers, and inventory
- Proof of delivery attached to the invoice automatically
- Counts that hold up without a full recount
How we work
Access Migration, cut into four pieces
Audit the database
Every table, query, form, report, and macro documented, including the ones nobody knew were still running.
Blueprint the rebuild
We map old structure to new, flag the data that needs cleaning, and agree on scope before we touch anything.
Migrate and prototype
Data moves with validation at both ends. You test a working front end against real records before cutover.
Parallel run and hand off
Old and new run side by side until the numbers match. Then documentation, training, and the keys.
Proof
Work like this, written up
The business challenge, what we did, and what happened — in full, on the page.
Grimm Scientific Industries
A spreadsheet-run manufacturer replaced day-to-day operations with a purpose-built ERP. They have since quadrupled in size on the same system.
4x growth in company size since the system went in
Networking & Managed ServicesAthens Mold and Machine
No IT department, spotty network security, no disaster plan, and a consumer ISP router carrying a machine shop. An audit first, then a network rebuilt from the ground up and documented.
0 to 1 disaster recovery plans — there was none before
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Access Migration for Logistics & Distribution, by market
Pick the market closest to you. Every one of them gets the same process, the same people, and the same phone number.
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Tell us what is not working. Plain language is perfect — "our Access database is dying" tells us plenty.