DNR Consulting — Right for today, ready for tomorrow

Serving clients across the United States and Canada

Right for today.
Ready for tomorrow.

DNR Consulting turns your business data into reports you can run the business on, and helps you choose, implement and manage the systems behind them.

From ERP and accounting to point of sale, labour and reporting systems, set up to keep working as you add locations, people and data. 30+ years of hands-on experience.

Where clients usually start

Start with one clear problem. See results in weeks.

  • Business intelligence dashboards: data from every system (sales, operations, labour and finance) in one view
  • More from your ERP reporting: cost-effective reporting solutions, inside and outside the ERP
  • Client-side project management: new systems, modules and vendors overseen on your behalf
  • Systems advisory: a technology roadmap planned before you spend
  • Senior help, as you need it: as much or as little as your business calls for, without the cost of a full-time hire

30+ years

ERP, hospitality systems and intelligent reporting

15+ years

NetSuite: administrator, consultant, reporting

USA & Canada

Coast to coast, remote or on-site

Independent

Advice with no vendor agenda

Big team or small

Senior-led, with the right calibre brought in when needed

Services

Three areas of focus, from the reports you run on to the strategy behind them.

Most clients start with one of these and add others as the relationship evolves. You’ll know the scope, cost and outcome before any work starts.

01 · Business intelligence & reporting

Reports you can make decisions from

It starts with the KPIs and metrics that actually drive your business, then useful reporting built for each audience, from board packs to the front line, clear enough to read, think and act on.

  • Business intelligence dashboards for leadership, operations and multi-unit performance
  • Blended, multi-source reporting drawing on your ERP, POS, labour and other systems in one view
  • Bespoke reports your ERP can’t produce on its own
  • R-Kive legacy data archive: history kept and reportable when an old accounting system or ERP is switched off

Platform-agnostic: Power BI, Oracle Analytics or lightweight web dashboards, connected directly to your systems or through a dedicated reporting database, whichever fits best.

02 · ERP & client-side project management

The right systems, delivered properly

An experienced ERP resource, including 15+ years with NetSuite, for new modules, enhancements and administration. Client-side project management for ERP and other systems: market analysis, requirements and RFPs, then vendors, timelines, testing and business readiness overseen on your behalf through to a calm go-live.

ERP resource · Market analysis · RFPs · Vendor oversight · Go-live readiness

03 · Strategy & planning

Technology leadership, as you need it

A technology roadmap tied to where the business is heading, with the gaps turned into defined, prioritised projects. For growing businesses and multi-site groups that need senior judgement but don’t need a full-time hire yet, including interim leadership that bridges the gap until you’re ready to hire.

Roadmaps · Priorities · Budgets · Interim leadership

Sometimes it’s simply help

Knowledge, resources and bandwidth.

Many engagements aren’t a project at all. When the business isn’t ready for a full-time role, senior skills come in as a cost-effective bridge, until you’ve grown enough to hire, with a clean handover when you do.

Knowledge

Of the whole system landscape: what’s out there, what fits your business, how the pieces connect, and what they really cost to run.

Resources

The right people and technologies brought in when you need them, from report developers to implementation partners.

Bandwidth

An extra senior pair of hands for day-to-day operations, strategic decisions, or both, for as long as you need it.

Hands-on, not hands-off. The work being recommended gets done alongside your team, so you can see it working before you commit to it.

Lowest cost in use, not low cost.

Best-of-breed systems matter, but what matters more is what a system costs to run over its life: licences, integrations, workarounds and the staff time it eats. Every recommendation is judged on that total, and on whether it will still fit when the business is twice the size.

How it works

From roadmap to go-live, on your side of the table.

ERP, reporting or hospitality systems: the whole cycle or any single stage. Client-side project management means acting on your behalf, not the vendor’s: monitoring vendor activity in your organization and holding vendors to account.

  1. 01

    See where you stand

    A review of your current systems against where the business is heading, finding the gaps that are holding it back.

  2. 02

    Know what to do first

    Each gap becomes a defined project, weighted by value, cost and risk, so you know what to tackle first and why.

  3. 03

    Choose with confidence

    Requirements written, the RFP or vendor selection run, and options compared on total cost of ownership, not sticker price.

  4. 04

    Go live ready

    Client-side project management through to go-live: vendors held to account, and your processes, data and people ready on day one.

No surprises

Scope, cost and deliverable agreed before work starts.

Results you can see early

Working reports in days and weeks, not months.

Support that grows with you

Light maintenance or fractional support as your team grows.

Who it’s for

Grow without the groan.

For growing businesses, product or service based, that have outgrown spreadsheets and the systems they started with, but aren’t sure what to do next, or feel stuck weighing up the options.

Finance leaders

CFOs and controllers who need consolidated, multi-entity and multi-currency reporting, month-end and board packs, and budget vs actual they can trust. Fluent in accounting, not just systems.

Multi-location & franchise brands

Restaurant, café, retail and service brands in a growth phase, juggling POS, ordering, loyalty and labour, and needing performance reporting by location and franchisee.

ERP-driven businesses

Product and service businesses that need reporting their ERP can’t produce on its own, often working alongside their ERP implementation partner.

Companies changing systems

Businesses moving off an old accounting system or ERP who need their history kept, reconciled and reportable after the switch.

Not siloed in one industry, and that’s deliberate.

The dynamics of any business can be read quickly: how systems contribute to each workflow, and where processes can be handled better and automated in practical, cost-effective ways. The industry changes; the principles don’t: right for today, ready for tomorrow, and lowest cost in use, not low cost.

Industries worked in

  • Food & hospitality
  • Professional & service businesses
  • Healthcare
  • Manufacturing
  • Distribution
  • Workplace furniture
  • Retail
  • Multi-unit franchising
  • Telecommunications
  • Construction
  • Education
  • Automotive services

Platforms known first-hand

Advice that comes from years inside these systems, as administrator, project lead and executive, not from a sales sheet.

ERP & accounting

NetSuite (15+ years), Restaurant365, QuickBooks

Reporting & data

Power BI, Oracle NetSuite Analytics Warehouse, MicroStrategy (certified), Microsoft Azure, HTML web dashboards

Point of sale

Revel, Shift4, Toast, Square, Lightspeed, Redcat

Ordering & delivery

Olo, Deliverect

Kiosks & kitchen display

Bite, Grubbrr, TechRyde · Elo, Lenovo, MicroTouch hardware

Loyalty

Paytronix, Como

Labour & scheduling

Deputy, 7shifts

Head office & supply chain

Warehouse & 3PL, manufacturing & commissary, AP automation, HRIS & payroll

Integration & automation

Celigo integrator.io, plus practical AI tools for reporting, workflow automation and checking AI-generated output

Selected work

Selected engagements

Many of these roles were held from the inside: as the company’s technology function, as contract CIO, or as a member of the executive team.

Multi-unit beverage franchisor · USA

The technology function for a national rollout

Selected and implemented the full stack for rapid US expansion: ERP with warehouse and 3PL integration, POS, labour, loyalty, delivery and in-store media, plus a reporting warehouse with daily dashboards for head office and franchisees.

Beverage franchisor · Canada

Contract CIO through a move off spreadsheets

A new ERP, warehouse and 3PL systems, bakery production, labour and stock platforms, and BI dashboards, delivered as a member of the executive team.

Multi-brand restaurant group · Canada

Systems advisory and executive reporting across two brands

Went to market for loyalty, kiosk and kitchen display solutions and advised on point-of-sale decisions, then developed proof-of-concept reporting drawn directly from the ERP: an automated feed into a reporting database, with executive dashboards on a 4-4-5 fiscal calendar, same-store comparisons and weekly cost of goods.

Industrial lubricants supplier · USA

Business intelligence for leadership

Power BI dashboards for the leadership team, maintained and extended under a long-running reporting agreement as the business’s needs change.

Workplace furniture · North America

A full business dashboard, and reporting for dealers

A complete performance dashboard for a workplace furniture company, plus ongoing Power BI reporting for dealers alongside a Canadian ERP partner, and legacy data archiving as dealers retire old systems.

International beverage brand · Australia

A decade of digital transformation

BI dashboards, POS replacement, loyalty and mobile apps, labour optimisation, stock and cost-of-goods platforms and HRIS, as strategic advisor to the executive team.

National burger chain · Australia

Seven years of platform transformation

BI dashboards, POS, loyalty, labour management, stock and cost-of-goods platforms and HRIS, delivered as a member of the executive team through a period of strong growth.

Fashion retailer and manufacturer · International

One ERP across four countries

ERP across finance, logistics, retail and manufacturing, with teams in Australia, France, Fiji and Sri Lanka, integrated with POS, manufacturing and store traffic systems.

Premium chocolate maker · Australia

ERP for manufacturing and production

An ERP implementation covering financials, fixed assets, manufacturing and production ordering.

Multi-site car wash chain · Australia

A performance dashboard across every site

A business performance dashboard giving owners a clear view of how each site is tracking, so issues are spotted and acted on quickly.

David Nehme

Your senior lead

David Nehme

Systems Architect & Strategist · DNR Consulting · USA & Canada

None of this is theory. It comes from years in the roles themselves: running the systems, leading the projects and sitting at the executive table.

Every DNR Consulting engagement is led personally by David Nehme. For more than 30 years he has helped businesses choose, implement and get value from their systems, from ERP and accounting to hospitality systems and the intelligent reporting that sits on top. He has served as contract CIO and executive team member for national food and retail brands, led NetSuite implementations across retail, manufacturing and food production, and worked with finance teams across several countries and accounting standards.

That includes more than 15 years with NetSuite, as an administrator, consultant and reporting developer. His career began implementing accounting and business systems (costing, tax, fixed assets, treasury and payroll), and he has also been general manager of a medical device manufacturer. With a business degree and that grounding in accounting, David makes sure reporting stands up in front of a board and still makes sense to the people running operations: the right KPIs, focused on what drives the business.

Engagements can run lean or at full team strength. When the work calls for it, collaborative teams in ERP implementation and report development across a range of platforms are brought in, so you get the right calibre at the right time, with the same senior principal leading throughout. Clients across the United States, from New York and Boston to Dallas, Los Angeles and Seattle, as well as Canada and Australia, remotely or on-site.

Let’s talk about what’s holding your business back.

A 30-minute call, no obligation. Bring one problem: a report you can’t get, a system decision you’re weighing, or a rollout that’s stalled.

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Serving clients in

New York · Boston · Dallas · Los Angeles · Seattle

and across the US, Canada and Australia · Eastern Time hours