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Guides

Written for the person who has to run the thing, not for the person signing the licence. Each one is specific enough to act on this week.

Free tool

Do you actually need an ERP?

Twenty scored statements about your data, your close and your inventory. No email required.

Guide

The six stages of erpification

What each stage produces, and what skipping it costs you at cutover.

Checklist

ERP data migration checklist

What to load, in what order, and how to prove it reconciled before go-live.

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Outgrown QuickBooks, or outgrown your process?

How to tell the difference before you spend a year on the wrong answer.

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A chart of accounts you will not regret

Three decisions are one-way doors. Which changes are free, which are forward only, and which are never.

Runbook

The cutover weekend runbook

Built backwards from the rollback deadline: the irreversibility ledger, and the three exits at the gate.

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What hypercare should actually cover

Why falling ticket volume has two opposite causes, and the exit test a quiet retreat to the spreadsheet cannot pass.

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Why ERP implementations fail

Four different things get called failure. A symptom lookup table for a project already in flight.

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ERP for a 50-person company

Headcount does not decide it. Count the records two systems both claim to own, then log the re-keying for two weeks.

Script

How to run a scripted ERP demo on your own data

Three transactions that each cross a boundary, a data pack left dirty on purpose, and a grade sheet with three columns instead of a score.

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Fit-gap analysis, done properly

A gap has more than one resolution and only one of them is on the quote. The admissibility test, six dispositions with their cost shapes, and why the party paid to close the gaps must not hold the pen on the disposition column.

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The real cost of an ERP, line by line

Three budgets, one invoice: the quoted price, your own payroll hours, and the output foregone. Never sum the columns. Prints no cost figure, and explains why the circulating ones cannot be traced to a sample.

Method

Month-end close in five days

The length of the close is the sum of your configuration gaps. Instrument three closes with a wait register before buying anything, then read the close log as a requirements document.

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Master data ownership

Ownership follows the create button, not the org chart. The three questions that settle who owns a list, field-group ownership, and the retire-before-create rule.

Decision framework

Should you keep the old system readable?

A decision per record class instead of keeping everything forever: four ways to keep data readable and what each costs, a read log, a review gate and a signed destruction certificate.

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ERP or point solution

Decided by a count, not by company size: the shared-record test, writers and readers with staleness as the deciding column, and the identifier precondition that makes either choice work.

All twelve are written

The twelve-guide plan is complete. Each one was researched against what currently ranks for its question, written to what those pages leave out, and then checked by someone whose job was to find a reason not to publish it.

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