Logistics & Distribution
Access Migration for Logistics & Distribution
That Access database from 2009 still runs the shop. We move it to the cloud with your business processes intact, and you review and approve the work at each checkpoint along the way. Dispatch and the warehouse count only agree once the month is closed.
Does Imagi-Tech do Access Migration for haulers and distributors?
Yes. Imagi-Tech provides Microsoft Access migration to haulers and distributors across ten Ohio markets, from our office in Marietta, Ohio. We scope and quote each project after a free audit. The problem it addresses: dispatch and the warehouse count only agree once the month is closed.
Sound familiar?
Where haulers and distributors usually get stuck
- One Access file on one shared drive runs a department
- It only works on one machine, and that machine is old
- The person who built it retired, and the forms are held together with hope
- Nobody will touch it because nobody knows what breaks
What's included
What you get
- Full audit of tables, queries, and reports
- Data cleaning and migration with zero loss
- Modern cloud front end your team can use anywhere
- Parallel-run period so nothing breaks
- Documentation and training
Your business logic moved to the cloud with every record intact.
Logistics & Distribution
The systems we end up in
Most haulers and distributors run some version of these four. Our Access Migration work usually starts with getting them to share data.
Dispatch and load boards
Driver logs and compliance records
Warehouse receiving and pick lists
Rate quoting and freight billing
What changes
- One live view of loads, drivers, and inventory
- Proof of delivery attached to the invoice automatically
- Counts that hold up without a full recount
How we work
Access Migration, cut into four pieces
Audit the database
We document every table, query, form, report, and macro, including a few nobody knew were still running.
Blueprint the rebuild
We map the old structure to the new one and flag any data that needs cleaning. Scope gets agreed before we touch anything.
Migrate and prototype
Data gets checked as it leaves the old system and again when it lands. Before cutover you test a working front end against real records.
Parallel run and hand off
The old and new systems run side by side until the numbers match. After that we hand over the keys along with documentation and training.
Proof
Work like this, written up
Each write-up explains what the client was up against and how our fix turned out.
Grimm Scientific Industries
Grimm ran day-to-day operations on spreadsheets until we built them an ERP from scratch. The company has quadrupled in size since, on the same system.
4x growth in company size since the system went in
Networking & Managed ServicesAthens Mold and Machine
A machine shop with no IT department and no disaster plan was running on spotty network security and a consumer ISP router. We audited first, then rebuilt and documented the network from the ground up.
0 to 1 disaster recovery plans (there was none before)
Get a clear read on your technology
We'll run a free audit and explain what we find in plain language. You keep the report whatever you decide.
Get Free Audit →Where we work
Access Migration for Logistics & Distribution, by market
Pick the market closest to you. We send the same people and follow the same process everywhere we work.
Mid-Ohio Valley
Central Ohio
Southwest Ohio
Questions we get asked
About Access Migration for Logistics & Distribution
Can you move a Microsoft Access database to the cloud?
Yes, that is what this service does. Your business processes move across intact, and you review and approve the blueprint and the prototypes at each checkpoint. Nobody has to rebuild the workflow from memory afterward.
Will we lose our data or our reports?
No. During the review we list the reports people run and rebuild each one as part of the scope. The month-end report comes across with everything else.
Does the team have to relearn everything?
No. We document how the work runs before we rebuild anything, so the new system looks familiar to the people who used the old one. It also works on desktop, tablet and phone.
Our Access database still works. Why move it?
If it works well, leave it alone. The audit shows you where the risk sits, whether that's a single shared drive, one machine holding the only working copy, a version nobody can license any more, or a developer who has left.
Who owns the work when the project is finished?
You do. That includes the data, the documentation, the system itself, and every login. We never hold anything back to keep you as a client.
How does an Imagi-Tech Microsoft Access migration project start?
With a free audit. We look at what you run now and give you a plain-language read on what is solid and what is one bad morning away from trouble. Scope and price come after that.
Where does Imagi-Tech work?
We work out of 200 Putnam St, Suite 201, Marietta, Ohio, and cover ten markets across Ohio. Most work happens remotely because it is faster, and we schedule on-site time when hands on hardware will help.
Can Access Migration work around the systems we already own?
Yes, and that is where we start. We modernize around what you already have. When something has to go, the audit shows you what keeping it costs before we price replacing it.
Free audit
Let's get started
Tell us what's giving you trouble, in your own words. "Our Access database is dying" is plenty to go on.