Greer, SC · Upstate · Greenville County
A part-time CIO for Greer, SC automotive suppliers.
Automotive plants and their suppliers, where a customer can ask tomorrow who opened a drawing and you need to be able to answer.
Systems common in this market. The figure is city population.
The market
What Greer looks like from here.
Greer sits at the center of the Upstate's automotive and advanced manufacturing supply chain, with logistics, engineering services, and a fast-growing residential base. If you supply the plants, your customers expect you to control who can see their drawings and pricing, and to prove it when asked. The office systems behind most supplier plants are thin, and your engineers and buyers are already using AI tools on that same material. A customer audit will ask about both.
A supplier here typically runs an ERP, the system that handles orders and production, plus a quoting or sales tool and Microsoft 365. Plant reporting is usually combined from two systems by hand. We write the AI rules around your customers' data first, then tighten who can open what in your Microsoft cloud account. The dashboard reads from your systems without replacing them. Greer sits in Greenville County, and automotive suppliers across the Upstate answer the same customer audits.
What we would expect to find here. Automotive suppliers need access control they can show a customer. The dashboard reads from your systems and leaves the systems themselves alone.
Drawings before the plant report
Customers of Greer suppliers expect control over drawings and pricing, and proof when they ask. Engineers and buyers are already using AI tools on that same material.
We write the AI rule around the customer's data, then tighten who can open what in the Microsoft cloud account. The dashboard reads the plant systems and leaves them in place.
Greer 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 Greer
Who we work with here.
Start here
- AI Use Policy — Advisory review
- Applications assessment — Assessment
- Base dashboard deployment — Deployment
Where we work
Around Greer and across SC.
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 connect plant systems and keep the audit trail?
Yes, Third Shift can connect plant systems and keep the audit trail. The dashboard reads from your systems without replacing them. Access to the platform is logged and restricted to the people you name, and the connections are checked every month so the trail stays complete.
Can a supplier show a customer who saw their drawings?
The account work tightens who can open drawings and pricing. The dashboard reads the plant systems and leaves them in place. It depends on the systems the supplier already runs.
Does the dashboard change the plant systems?
It reads from them and leaves the systems themselves alone. Plant reporting is usually combined from two systems by hand today. The ERP remains the system for orders and production.
Start here
The first step is the same in every location.
Advisory first, in Greer as everywhere else: a written assessment you own.