Customization is the word that has cost more companies more money and more pain than any other in the history of enterprise software. It sounds like a benefit. Your business is unique, and your ERP should reflect that — so you customize it. You modify the code to match a workflow that doesn’t fit the […]

Evaluating cloud ERP generates questions — dozens of them — and the answers you get from vendors, consultants, and Google are often incomplete, contradictory, or designed to steer you toward a specific product rather than a clear understanding. This FAQ compiles the questions we hear most often from distribution companies evaluating cloud ERP. The answers […]

Every cloud ERP vendor has a features page. It’s long, it’s comprehensive, and it’s almost entirely useless for making a decision. You’ll find hundreds of line items organized into neat categories — financial management, inventory control, supply chain optimization, business intelligence, collaboration tools, AI-powered insights. Every vendor lists roughly the same features using roughly the […]

There’s a moment in the life of every growing distribution company when the tools that got you here start holding you back. The spreadsheets that tracked inventory when you had one warehouse can’t keep up with three. The accounting software that handled order processing when you shipped fifty orders a day collapses under five hundred. […]

The cloud ERP pitch has been repeated so many times it’s practically background noise at this point. Lower costs. Greater flexibility. Anytime, anywhere access. These talking points appear on every vendor’s website, in every analyst report, and on every conference slide deck. They’re not wrong, exactly — they’re just incomplete. And incompleteness, in enterprise software, […]