Greensboro, NC · Triad · Guilford County
A part-time CIO for Greensboro, NC firms.
Manufacturing and distribution companies where every plant has its own system and one person adds them up each month.
Typical setup for this market. Not a client count.
The market
What Greensboro looks like from here.
Greensboro's economy is manufacturing, logistics, and distribution, with insurance, healthcare, and higher education around it. If you run two plants and a distribution center, you already know the monthly ritual. Each site exports its numbers, someone pastes them into a workbook, and leadership reads a picture that is a week old by the time it arrives. No one is sure whether the sites count the same things the same way.
A Greensboro operation typically runs one or two ERPs, the systems that handle orders, production, and accounting. Add a warehouse system, a sales system, Microsoft 365, and the spreadsheets holding it all together. We leave every site on its own software, connect what can be connected, and match the numbers once so they agree. The dashboard that results runs in your own Microsoft cloud account, and the AI rules for quoting and customer data are written before anything is wired in. Greensboro anchors Guilford County, and manufacturers across the Triad face the same problem of sites whose numbers do not add up.
What we would expect to find here. Plants and distribution centers here rarely share one system. Making the sites add up, once, is the first thing the dashboard does.
Greensboro 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 Greensboro
Who we work with here.
Start here
- AI Use Policy — Advisory review
- Applications assessment — Assessment
- Base dashboard deployment — Deployment
Where we work
Around Greensboro and across NC.
Questions
Questions about working with us from Greensboro
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.
Can you report across two plants with different systems?
Yes, Third Shift can report across two plants with different systems, and it is the usual reason Greensboro firms call. Each site keeps its own system. Both feed one dashboard, and the numbers are matched in one place instead of a monthly hand merge in a spreadsheet.
Start here
The first step is the same in every location.
Advisory first, in Greensboro as everywhere else: a written assessment you own.