Finance that reconciles
General ledger, receivables, payables, cash books and fixed assets, with USD and ZWG held side by side rather than converted and hoped for.
Enterprise resource planning
Forge ERP
Finance, stock, purchasing, sales and production in one multi currency system.
Finance that reconcilesStock you can trustPurchasing and landed costSales and receivablesProductionCompliance
The problem it solves
One set of numbers, and a month end that closes on time
Stock says one thing, the ledger says another, and nobody can tell you the margin on last month until the middle of this one. It is rarely because people are careless. It is because the information lives in four places that were never designed to talk, and somebody has to retype it between them.
Enterprise resource planning
What it does
Everything included
Stock you can trust
Multi branch stock with transfers, cycle counts, batch and expiry tracking, and a variance report that tells you where it went.
Purchasing and landed cost
Requisition to receipt, with duty, freight and clearing costs landed onto the item so your cost price is the real one.
Sales and receivables
Quotations, orders, invoices and credit notes, with customer limits and an ageing that collections can actually work from.
Production
Bills of material, work orders and yield, for manufacturers who need to know what a finished unit truly cost.
Compliance
Fiscal compliant invoicing, VAT and withholding handled, and the returns your accountant asks for at year end.
Who it is for
It fits best when this sounds familiar
- Distributors and wholesalers running several branches
- Manufacturers who import inputs and need true landed cost
- Retail groups that have outgrown their accounting package
- Any business where month end takes more than a week
Why this one
What makes it different
- Multi currency is the foundation, not a conversion applied at the end
- Branch consolidation without a spreadsheet stage in the middle
- Runs on modest hardware and tolerates a slow link between branches
- Your chart of accounts and your processes, not a template you must adopt
How it goes in
From first conversation to live
Demo
We show you the real system with your kind of data in it, not a slide deck. Half an hour, no charge, no obligation.
Discovery
We sit with the people who will use it, map how you work today and agree what success looks like. You leave with a written scope and a fixed price.
Configure and migrate
Set up around your processes, with your existing data brought across and checked against what you have now.
Train and go live
Training by role, a parallel run where it matters, and we are on site for the first days.
Support
Agreed response times and a quarterly review of what to improve next. Written into the contract, not sold on later.
Questions
What people ask about Forge ERP
Can it work alongside our current accounting system?
Yes. Some clients keep their existing ledger for a period and let Forge ERP handle stock and purchasing, feeding journals across. We would rather migrate you properly, but a staged move is often the safer path.
How long does an ERP take to go live?
Three to five months for a group wide rollout, delivered in phases so finance or stock is live and useful long before the last module lands.
What happens to the data we already have?
Migration is part of the project. Balances, customers, suppliers and stock come across, and we run in parallel for a period so you can prove the numbers agree before switching off the old system.
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One email when we have something genuinely useful: a security warning worth acting on, a change in fiscal rules, or a pattern we keep seeing go wrong. No campaigns, and you can leave at any time.
Tell us what is not working.
One conversation, no charge, no obligation. If we are not the right people for it, we will tell you who is.