Custom ERP development for operators who buy and stock across many sites

Bollard, Safock's own procurement and inventory software for multi-site operators, covers requisitions, approvals, purchase orders, goods receiving, three-way match, inventory and transfers, and an append-only audit trail. Its controls are enforced in the database, so no screen, import or integration can bypass them.

Bollard was designed around five ways money leaks from multi-site purchasing: sites buying without approval, suppliers billing above the agreed price, invoices for goods that never arrived, a separate spreadsheet per site, and stock piling up at one site while another runs short. Each module closes one of those gaps.

Custom ERP projects start from the same foundations and add the modules your operation needs, one site or department at a time.

ERP projects carry the most risk when every site and module switches at once. We go live with one module at one pilot site, fix what the pilot reveals, then roll out across the business. Your existing systems keep running until each part is proven.

Bollard's own rollout shows the pattern. Days 1 to 3 are discovery, days 4 to 7 import the catalog and vendors, and days 8 to 14 take one pilot site live before the rest of the network moves over. A custom ERP takes longer than rolling out an existing product, and the pilot-first order stays the same.

• Discovery across the processes and sites in scope
• First module live at a pilot site
• Rollout to the remaining sites and teams
• Further modules added in later phases

Cost follows the number of modules, the number of sites, the depth of the approval chains, the systems to connect, such as your accounting software or an existing ERP, and the item and vendor data to clean and import. Procurement and inventory for one region is a smaller build than production, finance links and many sites. We scope it in discovery and send a fixed quote with milestones, and every launch includes 30 days to 3+ months of support.