Insights

Notes from the rollouts

Working notes on implementation decisions, written for the people who have to live with them. No vendor comparisons and no predictions about the future of enterprise software.

MES

Why an NCR backlog is a data model problem

A growing non-conformance queue is rarely a quality team capacity issue. It is usually that the deviation record cannot answer the question the reviewer needs answered.

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OMS

Where order management should live: OMS or ERP

Both answers are defensible. Count how often an order splits across locations and the decision makes itself.

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ERP

An ERP implementation checklist for discrete manufacturers

Thirty-one decisions grouped by phase, most of them business decisions rather than software ones. Printable.

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IMS

Choose your valuation method before you migrate stock

Standard, moving average or FIFO changes your reported margin. Deciding after go-live means migrating twice.

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INTEG

How to inventory your integrations before an ERP project

Every organisation has more interfaces than it thinks, and most are a person with a spreadsheet. How to find them all.

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WMS

A warehouse cutover checklist that assumes things go wrong

What to freeze, what to count, what to keep read-only, and the one decision that makes rollback possible.

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Resource

ERP implementation checklist

Thirty-one decisions grouped by phase, most of them business decisions rather than software ones. Readable in full and printable. No email required.

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Why so few posts

We would rather publish slowly

Everything here is written from delivery work rather than assembled from other articles, which is slower. The titles marked as publishing soon are commitments, not placeholders.

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