UNIFIED BUSINESS SYSTEMS FOR AGGREGATES & BULK MATERIALS PRODUCERS

Connecting the scale house to the bottom line.

Stop chasing numbers between the plant, the scale house, and the back office. Start running on numbers you trust.

Niceville, Florida · Serving clients nationwide

Built for Aggregates & Bulk Materials Producers

When Business Systems Stop Working Together

Your business has grown. Your systems have not always grown together.

Aggregates and bulk materials producers often run on a collection of systems implemented at different times for different purposes.

Scale and ticketing systems handle loads. Dispatch manages deliveries. CRM tracks customers and opportunities. ERP handles transactions and accounting. Spreadsheets fill the gaps. Reporting pulls information from all of them.

Individually, those systems may work perfectly well. The problems appear between them.

Information gets entered more than once. Reports require manual reconciliation. Management gets different answers from different systems. Software decisions are made one project at a time without a clear view of how everything should fit together.

HBS helps turn that collection of systems into a connected business systems environment.

Our Framework

The Plant-to-Profit Business Systems Framework

Your ERP, operational software, reporting, integrations, and technology decisions should not be treated as unrelated projects.

The Plant-to-Profit Business Systems Framework is how HBS looks at the entire business systems environment as one connected whole.

From the plant, scale house, and operational systems through sales, ERP, reporting, management, and financial performance, we help determine how information should move, how systems should work together, and where technology can better support the business.

Plant-to-Profit does not mean every engagement literally begins at the plant or ends in accounting. It is the organizing framework for understanding and improving the systems that support the entire organization.

Plant & OperationsScale House & DispatchSales & Business SystemsERP & FinancialsReporting & Management

One connected environment—not a rigid linear workflow.

Three Connected Capabilities

One business systems environment. Three ways we help improve it.

The three pillars work together to make your overall business systems environment work better.

Pillar 01

Strategy & Leadership

Own the technology decisions and major systems initiatives that shape how the business grows.

Project Leadership: Taking the wheel on major IT initiatives, managing software rollouts, data migrations, and system upgrades from start to finish.
Software Evaluation: Auditing and helping select the right industry-specific software platforms for CRM, dispatch, bulk logistics, and enterprise planning.
Growth Roadmapping: Aligning corporate expansion goals with a scalable software architecture that smoothly supports adding new yards, scales, and product lines.

Pillar 02

Intelligence & Reporting

Turn information from across the business into clear, trusted reporting for management.

Full-Operation Dashboards: Delivering real-time visibility across tonnage, production yields, supply chain logistics, sales pipelines, marketing ROI, and corporate financials.
Unified Data Hubs: Consolidating fragmented reports from multiple pits, material plants, sales offices, and financial systems into a single source of truth.
Executive Intelligence: Replacing generic business intelligence with automated, industry-specific metrics that help management track efficiency and profitability.

Pillar 03

Integration & Automation

Connect systems and automate the movement of information and work across the business.

Cross-Platform Syncing: Connecting your front-end CRM, specialized line-of-business software, and field scale house ticketing directly into your core ERP.
Unified Workflows: Bridging the operational gaps between sales pipelines, dispatch scheduling, and back-office accounting platforms like Viewpoint Vista, Jonas, or QuickBooks.
Leakage Prevention: Erasing data silos, manual entry bottlenecks, and replication mistakes across all departments to protect bottom-line profit margins.

Joe Carnes, founder of Holden Business Solutions

Why Holden Business Solutions

Business systems experience from inside the industry.

HBS was built around a perspective that is difficult to get from a traditional software vendor or general IT consultant: firsthand experience working inside an aggregates producer at the intersection of operations, finance, accounting, reporting, ERP, scale systems, and technology.

That experience matters because the hardest business systems problems rarely belong to one department.

A reporting problem may actually be an integration problem. An ERP problem may start with information coming from an operational system. A software implementation may fail because nobody translated the business requirements into a workable systems design.

HBS approaches those problems from the business outward, then determines where technology fits.

We are not here to sell you a particular piece of software. We are here to help make the systems behind your business work together.

Joe Carnes, MBA, PMP, founded Holden Business Solutions after eight years inside an aggregates producer, leading work across finance, ERP, and IT.

His operator-side experience includes leading a Dynamics GP implementation, working with Command Alkon Apex and related plant systems, building reporting and automation, and governing the business systems environment behind multi-location operations.

Joe CarnesMBAPMP

How We Work

Understand the environment. Build the roadmap. Lead the work.

This is the typical HBS approach. Each engagement is shaped around the needs of the business.

Assess the Environment

We start by understanding the business, the systems already in place, how information moves between them, where manual work exists, what leadership is trying to accomplish, and which problems matter most.

Build the Roadmap

We define what should change, what should stay, how the systems should fit together, what capabilities are required, and what should happen first.

Depending on the engagement, that may include system architecture, software selection, reporting strategy, integration design, automation opportunities, modernization priorities, or a broader business systems roadmap.

Execute & Lead

HBS leads the initiative through implementation.

We perform the work that fits our capabilities directly and coordinate specialized partners where appropriate, while continuing to own the strategy, requirements, architecture, coordination, and overall outcome.

Start a Conversation

Your systems should work together.

If your team is fighting disconnected software, duplicate entry, manual reporting, unreliable information, or technology decisions that nobody clearly owns, let's talk.

We can spend 15 minutes discussing your current environment, where the biggest friction exists, and whether HBS is the right fit to help.

Book A 15-Minute Call 850.407.4077 joe@holdenbusiness.com