Most ERP evaluations start in the wrong place. They start with vendors. Someone pulls together a list of platforms from analyst reports and Google searches, schedules a round of demos, and begins the months-long process of comparing products without first establishing what they’re comparing them against. The evaluation should start with you. Before you see […]
Numbers have a way of cutting through the noise. The cloud ERP market is full of vendor claims, consultant opinions, and analyst predictions that can be hard to evaluate without context. But the data — from market research firms, industry surveys, implementation studies, and adoption tracking — tells a story that’s harder to spin. Some […]
The CFO asks a question that nobody else in the ERP evaluation thinks to ask: how does this hit the books? It’s not a glamorous question. It doesn’t come up in the demo. It doesn’t appear on the feature comparison matrix. It doesn’t factor into the warehouse manager’s assessment of picking efficiency or the sales […]
Understanding where cloud ERP came from explains why it works the way it does — and why so much of what the industry sells today still carries the architectural DNA of decisions made decades ago for reasons that no longer exist. The history of ERP isn’t just a technology story. It’s a story about business […]
The cloud ERP market is saturated with misinformation. Some of it comes from on-premise vendors protecting legacy revenue. Some comes from cloud vendors overselling capabilities. Some comes from consulting firms whose business model depends on complexity and confusion. And some simply persists because it was repeated so often that nobody bothered to check whether it […]
There’s a meeting that happens at every distribution company, usually weekly, sometimes daily. Finance, operations, and sales sit in the same room — or the same video call — and each department presents numbers that don’t agree with the other departments’ numbers. Sales says they booked $2.3 million in orders last week. Finance says revenue […]
There’s a server room somewhere in your building. Maybe it’s a proper data center with raised floors and redundant cooling. Maybe it’s a closet with a rack, a UPS, and a prayer. Either way, inside that room sits hardware that your IT department spends a meaningful portion of their time keeping alive — patching operating […]
Demand planning is the function that determines whether a distribution company has the right product in the right place at the right time — or whether it’s perpetually bouncing between stockouts that lose sales and excess inventory that consumes capital. Get it right and purchasing is proactive, warehouse space is optimized, cash flow is predictable, […]
Mid-Year ERP Check-In: Is Your Cloud System Delivering What Was Promised? Six months in. Maybe twelve. Maybe three years. However long you’ve been running on your cloud ERP, there’s a question that deserves an honest answer — and almost never gets one. Is the system actually delivering what was promised during the sales cycle? Not […]
There’s a moment in almost every enterprise ERP sales cycle that should alarm the buyer but rarely does. You’ve seen the demo. You like the software. You’re ready to talk about implementation. And the vendor says: “Let me introduce you to one of our implementation partners.” That sentence means something specific. It means the company […]
(888) 635-2517
2545 Railroad St., Suite 301
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
info@bizowie.com