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.
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.
Read the noteWhere order management should live: OMS or ERP
Both answers are defensible. Count how often an order splits across locations and the decision makes itself.
Read the noteAn ERP implementation checklist for discrete manufacturers
Thirty-one decisions grouped by phase, most of them business decisions rather than software ones. Printable.
Read the noteChoose your valuation method before you migrate stock
Standard, moving average or FIFO changes your reported margin. Deciding after go-live means migrating twice.
Read the noteHow 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.
Read the noteA 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.
Read the noteERP 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.
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.
Would rather just ask us directly?
A scoping call is 45 minutes with an implementation lead, not a sales team.