Systems that were never designed to talk to each other, made to talk reliably: contract-first field mapping, every discrepancy reconciled to root cause, logs a human can read, and monitoring that speaks up when a feed goes quiet. Thirty years of it, from a foundry's first network to a PLM-to-S/4HANA interface at a $200M medical device manufacturer.
Not a platform pitch. The specific feeds that, when they break, stop shipments, delay the close, or put a compliance date at risk. Any system with an API, connected properly. Any system without one, given one — a read-only API over the legacy database, a file-drop watcher, a front end on a green-screen transaction.
Arena, Windchill, Product Vision — items, BOMs, revisions and effectivity landing in the ERP without re-keying. Compare-and-sync with a human approval where it matters.
HubSpot, Salesforce, Lime — customers, quotes and order status flowing both ways, so sales sees the same numbers operations does.
Real-time collection into the ERP: barcode transactions, labor, completions, wireless CNC program delivery. Built around the workflow, not the transaction code.
Divisional Fourth Shift or SAP data into a corporate Oracle or S/4HANA template — AP, suppliers, GL extracts — with dozens of required fields and finance teams on both sides who need the trial balances to tie.
850/856/810 with the customers who require it. Structured e-invoicing (Factur-X / CII) through certified platforms for regulatory mandates with a hard date — the French mandate most recently.
ERP history warehoused into a canonical model so Power BI and dashboards read validated data without hammering the production database. This is the foundation Clairvient is built on.
The coordination is half the job — vendors, corporate, the plant. The other half is refusing to ship a feed we can't prove.
ERP, PLM, CRM, EDI, the corporate feed — whatever holds the record.
Field by field, written down before code exists.
Idempotent runs, rejects routed to a person, readable logs.
Both sides tied to the transaction. Differences traced to root cause.
A feed that goes quiet raises an alert. Documented, handed over.
Receiving data that just works — and keeps working.
Field-level mapping written down first: source, target, transformation, required-ness, what happens on blank. When the corporate template has 230 fields, we agree on which 230 before code exists.
Idempotent runs, explicit lifecycle states, error handling that routes a reject to a person, logs a human can read. Data Import templates and FSTI transactions on Fourth Shift; the native APIs elsewhere.
Before go-live, both sides tied to the transaction. When batches disagree, the difference is traced and the explanation published with query-level proof — not written off as timing.
A feed that goes quiet raises an alert. The mapping, the schedule and the failure modes are documented so your team — or the next consultant — can run it without us.
A regulatory clock. A Tier-1 aerospace supplier in France had to produce structured Factur-X invoices through a certified platform by a government deadline. We owned the integration architecture and field-level mapping from the ERP through to the platform — lifecycle states, error handling, every mandated field — across French operations, corporate and vendors on two continents.
A corporate deadline. A divestiture put a division's Fourth Shift data on a hard date to land in the parent's Oracle. We built and iterated the extract suite against the corporate template, tightened invoice selection to kill duplicate-payment exposure, and reconciled every period discrepancy to root cause with a log the client could read.
A plant that couldn't stop. At a $200M medical device manufacturer on S/4HANA, our principal led master data and the Arena-to-SAP PLM integration while the operation ran at double forecast. The interface had to be right the first time, because the alternative was engineers re-keying changes into a validated system.
Some interfaces deserve to be a product, not a project. Clairvient's Connect & Reconcile and MDM-Sync modules give your team a screen for the integration — what ran, what was rejected and why, a side-by-side compare of PLM and ERP master data with approve-and-sync — instead of a script only one person understands. Same reconciliation discipline, now something your people can see and run.
The PLM that's supposed to feed the ERP, the corporate template that keeps rejecting your extract, the EDI that fails quietly on Fridays, the e-invoicing mandate with a date on it. Name the two systems and what's going wrong between them.
You'll get a straight answer and a tight scope. If we can't help, we'll tell you that too — and usually who can.
