Operational intelligence for PE-owned manufacturers

"Finance shows $47.2M. Ops says $44.8M. Board call is in twenty minutes."

Manufacturing operations cannot scale on fragmented ERPs and six versions of the truth.

Marquis IQ is the operational intelligence layer that connects every ERP, masters every data point, and gives your team one trusted number across pricing, inventory, procurement, and operations.

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Executive overview · 3 plants · YTD through Sep 2025
View: Global ▾
Period: YTD ▾
Revenue
$47.2M
▲ 8.2% vs PY
Gross Margin
34.8%
▲ 1.4pt vs PY
EBITDA
$8.1M
▲ 12.3% vs PY
Cash
$6.4M
▲ 5.9% vs PY
Plant ERP Revenue Gross Margin EBITDA % vs Plan
Chicago Dynamics BC $21.4M 36.2% 18.4% ▲ On plan
Indianapolis Sage 100 $14.8M 33.1% 15.8% ▼ −1.2pt
Columbus Epicor $11.0M 34.4% 16.5% ▲ On plan
Total $47.2M 34.8% 17.2% ▲ On plan
Open Orders
$16.7M
→ Stable vs PY
Past Due
$3.2M
▼ 8.1% vs PY
On-Time Delivery
91.3%
▲ 2.1pt vs PY
Inventory Turns
6.2x
▲ 0.4x vs PY
Works with
The problem

The operating model itself is the bottleneck.
Not the tools.

A $200M manufacturer running across three ERPs, two dozen spreadsheets, and a finance team that spends two weeks a month reconciling has not built a data problem. It has built an operating model that was never designed for this complexity.

Most leadership teams have normalized it. They have accepted that this is just how manufacturing works. It isn't.

See how Marquis IQ changes that

"Why are margins slipping?" Finance and Ops have different numbers. Nobody's looking at the same thing.

"Why are planners expediting everything?" Because no one can see inventory across plants. Plant A is 4 days from a stockout. Plant B holds 140 days of the same part.

"Why do we still operate through spreadsheets after spending millions on ERP?" Because the ERP was built for transactions, not decisions. That gap never closed.

How it works

From ERP to decision in four steps

No data team required. No months-long implementation. Most customers are running live dashboards within weeks of their first call.

1
Connect

We connect directly to your ERP: Dynamics, Sage, Epicor, NetSuite, Acumatica, and more. Certified connectors we maintain. Your IT team stays in control of identity, access, and security review. We handle the integration.

2
Enrich

We normalize and deduplicate your master data across every ERP. Customers, Suppliers, Items, Warehouses, and operational Calendars. One authoritative record per entity, maintained in Marquis IQ. Not a spreadsheet on someone's desktop. This is the foundation every IQ Module runs on.

3
Analyze

Access your data through IQ Modules built for manufacturing, your existing Power BI or Tableau environment, or connected Excel templates your team already works in. Industry best practices baked in, not a blank BI canvas.

4
Act

Marquis IQ doesn't stop at the dashboard, it assigns what needs doing. Actions are AI-generated assignments discovered automatically: past-due AR trending worse, overstocked parts with no demand, a supplier raising prices, a top customer who hasn't ordered in 60 days. Each one goes to a named owner. Not just insight, accountability.

Deployment speed
Weeks to first insight.
Not months. Not years.

Most data implementations require months of integration work, a systems integrator, and a custom build from scratch. Marquis IQ arrives with certified connectors, pre-built manufacturing analytics, and domain expertise already in place.

25+ certified ERP connectors. No custom integration project.
Pre-built IQ Modules ready on day one, not after a build cycle
No external partner, SI, or consultant required
Total cost of ownership
Lean team.
Full-scale capability.

A fully burdened report writer can run $150K and up, and that is typically an expert in one, maybe two data disciplines. For a fraction of that cost, Marquis IQ gives your finance, ops, sales, and procurement teams purpose-built analytics from day one. Your existing team scales its output, without scaling the headcount alongside it.

Finance, ops, sales, and procurement analytics. One platform cost.
No recruiting cycle, no onboarding ramp, no single point of failure
ROI measurable in weeks for most manufacturers
vs. point solutions
One platform.
Not four subscriptions.

The point solution path is tempting. There is a dedicated tool for inventory, one for pricing analytics, one for procurement spend, one for sales operations. Each is well-reviewed. None of them share a data model. None of them know what the others know. And together they cost more than the ERP fragmentation problem they were supposed to solve.

One enriched data layer shared across every IQ Module
One subscription instead of 3 to 4 disconnected tools
Every module sees the same customer, the same item, the same history
Beyond reporting

Tools your team actually uses

Most data platforms stop at the dashboard. Marquis IQ goes further. Pre-built analytics that surface what's happening, and workflow tools that help your team do something about it.

Analytics IQ
Know exactly where margin is won and where it's slipping

When your PE sponsor asks "why did margin change?" you should have the answer before the question. Pricing IQ breaks every margin move into price, volume, and mix, by customer, product, and end market.

Pricing
Gross Margin Bridge · FY 2024 → FY 2025
$8.3M +$2.1M +$470K −$328K $10.5M Prior GM Volume Price Mix Current GM
Workflow IQ
The tool your ops team opens every morning

Open Sales Order Triage gives your operations team a live view of every order in flight: what's on track, what's at risk, and what needs a call today. Not a monthly report. A daily operational tool.

Operations
OrderValueShip dateStatus
SO-48291
Acme Industrial Corp
$42,800
May 19
At risk
SO-48307
Midwest Fabricators LLC
$18,450
May 21
On track
SO-48312
Precision Parts Co.
$91,200
May 23
Delayed
SO-48318
Atlas Manufacturing
$27,600
May 24
On track
Built for every function

Find your view of the platform

Marquis IQ serves every function that touches operational and financial performance. Find the module built for your role.

What best-in-class looks like

What are other firms in your space doing?

We work with PE-owned manufacturers every day. Here's what the best-run ones have in common.

Up to 80%
Customer and supplier records resolved to unique entities on first enrichment
Records that appeared distinct across multiple ERPs collapse to the real count. Spend analysis and customer profitability rankings become accurate for the first time.
1 source
Single version of the truth, across all ERPs and all sites
Even multi-plant, multi-ERP operations report from one consolidated data layer.
Days
Not quarters. Not years. Days — for clients who find a 7-figure opportunity in their first report
We won't promise a number we can't prove for your business. What we can say: at standard platform pricing, a single meaningful finding covers the annual cost many times over.
0 FTEs
Additional data staff required to run Marquis IQ
No data engineer needed. We connect, maintain, and update the platform.
Several days
Typical month-end close compression within the first two months
When AR, order status, and cost data consolidate from multiple ERPs into one view, the days spent reconciling become hours. Most clients see meaningful close acceleration before the quarter is out.
From the field

What customers say after go-live

Marquis Data's work has resulted in immediate reductions of working capital, reduced consignment inventory, and improved period-over-period sales. The solutions have saved countless hours and real P&L results.

— Jerry Cignarella, President Polar Services (now Depot Connect International)

Our partnership with Marquis Data has provided ACPI with a platform that will support all of our acquisitions, has allowed us to capture real-time changes in product costs, and has dramatically reduced the hours needed to generate our analysis.

— Mike Franklin, CIO ACPI Products Inc. (now Cabinet Works)

The work Marquis Data has done resulted in a unified and global data platform, widespread analytics adoption, and business outcomes which couldn't have been realized otherwise.

— Daric Schweikart, CIO & VP of Technology SHAPE Technologies

Typical PE buy and build dilemma. Six ERPs. Ten facilities. Zero visibility, until Marquis IQ. We went from fragmented procurement and siloed AR to one standardized view across the entire group. The savings from aligning supplier terms were immediate. The collections improvement was immediate. The decision to implement was easy.

— Sven Doerge, CFO Momentum Manufacturing Group, LLC
Ready when you are

See what Marquis IQ can do for your business

Schedule a 30-minute demo. We'll show you the platform running on real manufacturing data, walk through how it handles your ERP environment, and answer every question your finance and IT teams will have before they'll approve anything.

No commitment. No sales pressure. We'll tell you honestly if we're the right fit.