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·Dirk Panis

Practical experience as the foundation for change.

Dirk Panis is founder of Axelis & Partners and leads the product vision for Orion ERP. His experience sits at the intersection of commercial leadership, business processes, digitalisation and the day-to-day reality of kitchen, interior fit-out and custom manufacturing businesses.

Founder Axelis & Partners · Orion ERP product vision
Dirk Panis, founder of Axelis & Partners
01Background

38 years in an industry where sales and production need to understand each other.

The strongest process improvements do not come from theory alone, but from understanding what actually happens between customer enquiry, quotation, work preparation, production and installation.

Dirk built his career in the kitchen, interior and manufacturing industry. That means he understands both the commercial side of a project and the operational consequences of decisions made earlier in the process.

Sales, costing, work preparation, purchasing, planning, production and installation are not separate worlds. They share the same information and continuously influence one another.

“Digitalisation only works when it makes the job easier for the people who have to use it every day.”

That conviction is now an important part of the product vision behind Orion ERP and of the way Axelis & Partners approaches business processes.

02Expertise

Commercial leadership, processes and technology belong together.

For Dirk, technology is not an end in itself. It is a way to improve the flow of information, support stronger decisions and help people work together more effectively.

Commercial

Commercial leadership

Sales organisation, customer experience, commercial processes and translating strategy into day-to-day execution.

Process

Lean and process optimisation

Making waste visible, simplifying information flows and organising processes around what genuinely adds value.

Digitalisation

ERP and business software

Connecting digital systems to the real workflow of costing, work preparation, purchasing, planning and production.

03From experience to product vision

Orion grew out of recurring problems on the shop floor.

In many companies, the same information is entered several times. A customer change becomes an email, then a revised quotation, then a note for work preparation and finally another interpretation on the shop floor.

That costs time and makes errors more likely.

The product vision behind Orion therefore starts from a simple rule: information captured correctly once should remain reusable later in the process.

Axelis & Partners translates that vision into an organisation-backed software platform in which practical expertise, product development, documentation and support come together.

04Career perspective

From industry experience to digital business management.

38 years

Industry experience

Kitchen, interior and manufacturing businesses through commercial and operational roles.

Sales

Commercial leadership

Connecting teams, customer processes, profitability and commercial organisation.

Lean

Process improvement

Looking at workflows through value, waste, information and handovers.

Orion

ERP product vision

Translating practical experience into business software for custom manufacturing companies.

05Organisation

The vision is personal. Continuity is organisational.

Axelis & Partners is deliberately being built as an organisation around Orion, so that knowledge, software and support do not depend on one person.

Dirk is founder and the driving force behind the product vision. But Orion ERP is developed and supported within Axelis & Partners as a business platform.

That is why the focus is not only on features and technology, but also on documentation, support, transferability and long-term continuity.

That structure matters to customers. Business software should not depend on one person, one device or one piece of implicit knowledge.

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Where practical experience and technology come together.

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