Gastonia, NC · Charlotte metro · Gaston County
A part-time CIO for Gastonia, NC firms.
Textile and industrial companies halfway through replacing old systems, with reports that have to come from both the old and the new.
Typical setup for this market. Not a client count.
The market
What Gastonia looks like from here.
Gastonia's industrial base is textiles, advanced manufacturing, and distribution, and much of it is partway through moving off older systems. That leaves you running new cloud tools next to a server in the back office that still holds the production history. Month-end reporting pulls from both, by hand, and the people who know the old system are close to retirement.
A Gastonia firm typically runs an ERP or an industry-specific system for production and accounting, Microsoft 365, a sales system, and month-end reports exported from two directions. We list every system you run and make one decision for each: connect it, export from it, leave it for later, or leave it alone. Some of the old systems are worth leaving where they are, and we say so. The AI rules for pricing and customer data get written before anything connects. Gastonia sits in Gaston County, and industrial firms on the western side of the Charlotte metro run the same mix of new and old systems.
What we would expect to find here. Industrial firms here run new cloud tools beside long-standing on-site systems. Every system gets a connect decision, including the ones we recommend leaving alone.
Gastonia is a service area, not an office. One team, based in North Carolina, works in your own systems.
Where this has run
A profile close to this setup.
Reporting was three exports reconciled by hand.
Light manufacturer · ~120 staff
Industries in Gastonia
Who we work with here.
Start here
- AI Use Policy — Advisory review
- Applications assessment — Assessment
- Base dashboard deployment — Deployment
Questions
Questions about working with us from Gastonia
Where are you based and do you work remotely?
Third Shift Group LLC is based in North Carolina and works with firms across North and South Carolina. Most of the work runs remotely, against your Microsoft cloud account and your systems. Policy meetings and leadership sessions can be on site where that helps. See where we work for the regions and towns we cover.
We still run an older system. Can it be connected?
An older system can usually be connected through a scheduled export rather than a direct connection. The applications assessment gives every system a connect decision, including the ones worth leaving exactly where they are. You learn the effort for each before anything is built.
Start here
The first step is the same in every location.
Advisory first, in Gastonia as everywhere else: a written assessment you own.