Manufacturing ERP Advisor
Lee Stout is an independent ERP advisor and the founder of Staudt Advisory, specializing in discrete manufacturing systems.
Four decades on the manufacturing floor, translated into ERP that fits the shop instead of fighting it.
Selection, implementation, and the operational reality after go-live — for mid-market manufacturers who want the decision made right the first time.
Lee Stout started as a mechanic and a parts counter, moved through planning, master scheduling, materials management, and configuration control, then spent eleven years implementing and architecting ERP. He reads a shop floor before he reads a spec sheet — which is why the systems he guides into place survive the go-live and the three months of drift that follow it.
Straight shooter. Calm in the chaos. A partner, not a vendor. He has seen this movie before — at manufacturers like Cymer, where he cut sixteen weeks out of the new-product development cycle, and Hologic, where the stakes of getting the system right were measured in shipped product.
Founded 2014 as Lee Stout Consulting · rebranded Staudt Advisory in 2025 to formalize executive-level ERP and business systems advisory.