Platform Migration in Detroit
Professional platform migration services for Detroit businesses. Strategy, execution, and results.
Our Platform Migration Work in Detroit
- Manufacturing ERP migrations from legacy platforms to modern cloud-based systems, preserving bill of materials, routing, inventory, and production history
- Automotive supply chain system migrations to support OEM digital integration requirements including EDI modernization, API connectivity, and real-time quality data sharing
- MES and quality management system transitions that maintain production record integrity and quality certification continuity
- Healthcare EMR migrations for Detroit-area practices, community health centers, and health systems within HIPAA compliance frameworks
- Financial services system migrations for Detroit banks and credit unions preserving transaction histories and regulatory compliance
- Database modernization from deprecated platforms to PostgreSQL, cloud data warehouses, and modern analytics infrastructure
- CRM migrations for Detroit's professional services and B2B organizations
- On-premises to cloud infrastructure migrations with appropriate security and disaster recovery architecture
Industries We Serve in Detroit
Automotive OEMs and Tier-1 through Tier-3 Suppliers: The automotive supply chain from Dearborn to Auburn Hills to Warren runs on legacy ERP and quality systems that increasingly cannot meet OEM digital integration requirements. We execute supply chain system migrations that maintain supplier portal connectivity, EDI continuity, and AIAG/MMOG compliance throughout the transition.
Manufacturing and Industrial: Southeast Michigan manufacturers outside the automotive supply chain face similar legacy ERP challenges with similar consequences. We migrate industrial ERP systems preserving production history, equipment records, and the operational data your engineering and quality teams depend on.
Healthcare Systems and Practices: Henry Ford Health, the Detroit Medical Center, and independent practices serving Detroit's communities migrate clinical and practice management systems within HIPAA compliance frameworks. We maintain clinical record integrity and care continuity throughout the migration process.
Financial Services: Detroit-area banks, credit unions, and insurance companies migrate core banking, lending, and claims systems preserving transaction histories, customer relationships, and regulatory compliance documentation.
Logistics and Transportation: Detroit-area logistics companies managing Michigan and regional distribution networks migrate WMS and TMS systems to platforms that support modern e-commerce integration and real-time visibility requirements.
Professional Services: Law firms, accounting practices, and consulting firms in downtown Detroit migrate CRM, matter management, and document systems to modern platforms that improve operational efficiency and client service.
What to Expect
Discovery and Assessment: We begin with a thorough current-state assessment that documents your data model, catalogs all integrations (including EDI trading partners and OEM portal connections for automotive clients), inventories customizations, and assesses data quality. For automotive and manufacturing clients, this includes review of AIAG data standards, quality certification requirements, and OEM connectivity specifications. This phase produces a detailed migration plan, risk register, and cost estimate before migration work begins.
Architecture and Staging Environment: We design the target architecture, configure the new environment, and build all integration connectors including EDI and OEM portal connections for automotive clients. We run comprehensive testing with production-representative data in a staging environment, including integration testing against partner systems before any production data migration begins.
Phased Migration and Validation: We execute migration in phases with validation checkpoints at each stage, including field-level data verification by your operations and quality teams who know what correct data looks like. For manufacturing clients, validation includes bill of materials accuracy, routing integrity, and inventory cost history verification.
Cutover and Post-Migration Support: We execute cutover during planned maintenance windows or other lowest-risk periods, with tested rollback procedures available throughout. We maintain parallel systems during the stabilization period and provide extended post-migration support covering issue resolution and staff training.
Frequently Asked Questions
Manufacturing operations often require near-continuous system availability, especially for companies running multiple shifts or just-in-time production schedules. We design migrations specifically around your production schedule, using parallel running periods where old and new systems operate simultaneously, staged cutover during planned maintenance windows or model change periods, and blue-green deployment approaches that allow instant rollback. We work directly with your operations and IT teams to identify the lowest-risk windows for cutover and design the migration to take advantage of those windows.
Yes, and heavily customized legacy ERP systems are one of our core migration challenges in Detroit. The migration process includes thorough documentation of all customizations, assessment of which customizations reflect genuine business requirements versus workarounds for system limitations, and deliberate decisions about which customizations to replicate in the new system versus replace with modern platform capabilities. This analysis often reduces the total customization footprint significantly, because many customizations were workarounds for limitations that modern platforms handle natively.
Automotive supply chain data integration requirements, including EDI trading partner connections, MMOG/LE compliance, AIAG data standards, and OEM supplier portal connectivity, must be maintained continuously during migration. We treat these integrations as first-class migration concerns, not afterthoughts. We map every integration from the legacy system, test all connections against partner systems in a staging environment before cutover, maintain redundant integration paths during the transition period, and coordinate with OEM portal operators when necessary to ensure connectivity is maintained without gap.
A focused manufacturing application migration with limited integrations typically takes four to eight months given the testing and validation rigor that industrial operations require. Complex ERP migrations with many trading partner integrations, large historical data volumes, and multiple facilities commonly take twelve to twenty-four months. We provide realistic estimates after a thorough discovery engagement. Rushing manufacturing system migrations creates operational risk that the timeline savings do not justify, and we will tell you directly if we see scope being compressed in ways that increase risk beyond acceptable levels.
Manufacturing data validation goes beyond record counts and field completeness. We validate bill of materials relationships and structures, manufacturing routing sequences and operations, inventory cost histories including standard cost and actual cost records, production order archives and completion records, and quality inspection records including certifications and non-conformance history. We work with your quality and operations teams to define the specific validation criteria that matter for your production environment. We do not proceed to cutover without documented sign-off from your team on validation results.
Yes. Supplier portal connectivity to OEM platforms, including Ford Supplier Portal, GM Supply Power, Stellantis supplier networks, and the various EDI networks and logistics portals the automotive supply chain uses, needs to be maintained during and after migration. We include portal integration mapping, testing, and cutover coordination in our migration scope. For trading partner connections where the OEM needs to reconfigure their end, we manage that coordination directly to ensure your customers experience no gap in connectivity. Detroit's industrial foundation is transforming. The companies building modern technical infrastructure now are better positioned for the next decade of the industry. Contact us to plan your platform migration.