Earnest & Associates is a business-optimization and enterprise-software consulting firm headquartered in Glen Burnie, Maryland, serving mid-sized manufacturers and distributors. The company's own marketing cites over 45 years of experience; a third-party company-profile aggregator (not the firm's own site) places its founding in 1978.
Its service lines include profit and performance optimization, sales enablement, enterprise software consulting, business intelligence/analytics/reporting, warehouse management and shipping logistics, quality management, data management, and accounts-receivable automation. On the Infor side, the firm markets Infor CloudSuite Distribution as part of its enterprise resource planning offering, wrapped with its own proprietary tools (branded ProAdvisor, ProSales, ProDecisions, CloudDecisions and ProData). The company reports an 86% customer retention rate and 292 customers with relationships of 15+ years.
Earnest & Associates lists Permatron, Carson Dellosa and ACR Supply as clients via testimonials on its own site, and identifies itself as a member of HARDI (Hardware and Retail Distributors Association). Employee headcount was not confirmed from a primary source during this research.