Specialists, not generalists.
An ERP touches every department. So we don't send an analyst who knows a bit of everything. For every domain comes someone who has done it themselves: at least eight years in their own field, at several companies. And they keep working in that field, also outside ERP projects, so their experience stays fresh. Who exactly depends on your company. We put the team together after walking the floor, and you meet every specialist before the phase starts.
Manuel. Founder, and still on the floor himself.
Manuel founded MPAT after more than twenty years of entrepreneurship and commercial development. He set up systems himself in companies of ten to several hundred people: Atlassian, Salesforce, Exact and Odoo, hands-on, from selection to go-live. Together with this team he saw nearly 290 companies from the inside, in Belgium and beyond, from corporates to family businesses.
That is where the method on this site comes from: first walk the floor, then build, in phases, with one specialist per domain. He is still on the floor himself in every project, and he is your first conversation. Dutch-speaking, fluent in French and English.
"MPAT? When people ask what it stands for: eMPAThy. First empathise, understand, and only then act."
entrepreneurship and commercial development
Atlassian, Salesforce, Exact, Odoo
companies seen from the inside, with this team
your conversation in your own language
First nearly 290 companies. Only then Odoo partner.
Our cases predate the partnership: on Atlassian, Salesforce, Exact and other platforms, and on Odoo long before we were its partner. That makes our advice broader than that of a party that knows one package. We chose Odoo because it fitted most of those companies best. Not the other way round. Three things we learned in those 290 companies, which you'll find everywhere on this site:
The software is rarely the problem.
Projects got stuck because nobody really understood the company. That's why we walk the floor first, from the driver to the CEO, before we draw a single screen.
Generalists don't see what specialists see.
An analyst who knows a bit of everything misses what the buyer or the accountant sees at once. That's why every domain gets someone who has done it themselves.
Billing by the hour makes every project more expensive.
Every change became a quote, every quote an argument. That's why phases with a fixed subscription fee and a decision point.
We publish cases with names and figures as soon as the client wants to. Until then you read them anonymously under Who it's for, and you'll hear them in every conversation: ask us about a company like yours.
Whoever makes the plan does the work.
No layers in between, no junior handover. For the specialists from our network we publish initials until they choose to show their name. You meet every specialist before the phase starts.
Keeps the operation focused on growth and builds the sales engine. Years of hands-on work in companies from ten to hundreds of people: processes rethought, systems introduced, deals closed and the decisions taken that a team expects from its leader.
Rolls out ERP and CRM simply and on schedule. Guides companies from selection to go-live and makes sure the system is used from day one.
Negotiated with suppliers for years. Builds reorder points, price agreements and supplier follow-up the way they work on the shop floor, not the way they're written in the manual.
Worked in the warehouse. From receipt to delivery: locations, picking, scanning and the exceptions that happen every day and aren't in any process.
Bills of materials, work orders and capacity planning that survive the shop floor. Knows the difference between a plan on paper and a plan the foreman uses.
Knows what has to be right on the 15th of the month. VAT, intercompany, multiple entities and a year-end close without surprises.
Keeps the numbers honest and the cash flow predictable. Builds the financial models and reporting that your bank and your gut both trust.
Technicians, vans, contracts and planning from one system. Did it in an organisation with hundreds of interventions a week.
Customer questions the system answers before your team has to look them up. Ran a service desk and knows which tickets should never have existed.
Phases, decision points and one point of contact. Brings along the people who'll have to work with the system, from the floor to the boardroom.
Automates routine work: finds the repetitive tasks that quietly drain a team and turns them into reliable processes. Also years of experience with hosting, development and Odoo migrations, and with connecting the platforms that remain alongside Odoo.
Puts practical AI to work: automations and lightweight tools that let a team punch well above its weight. Also years of experience with development, hosting, Odoo migrations and integrations with other platforms.
Dashboards and reports that answer the CEO's question: how is the company doing today? Pulls the numbers from one system instead of six exports and an Excel, and makes sure everyone looks at the same figures.
Turns attention into pipeline. Hands-on campaigns, content and analytics that deliver qualified leads without an enterprise budget.
Watches the bigger picture: board, investors and deals. Helps company leaders run a tight operation, build lasting investor relationships and navigate fundraising, M&A and exits.