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Practical conversations about choosing, implementing and living with ERP. No jargon. No sales pitch.
There's one piece of ERP work you keep putting off. You trust your partner, you like them, they answer the phone. But this particular job needs experience they don't have. This week Pete, Nirav and Emily are joined by Ken Sebahar, who has been implementing Navision since 2001…
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Start with the decisions that matter before anyone shows you a demo.
Explore selection advice → 02Practical help with scope, people, data, partners and go-live.
Explore implementation advice → 03Honest war stories, product detail and the arguments ERP people actually have.
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The first migration turned paper and tribal knowledge into structured data. The second starts with everything the business learned the hard way.
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Clean data, shared definitions, unsupported tools, token costs and lost judgement: the practical problems hiding behind AI-in-ERP demos.
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The clean transaction is never the real migration test. Follow the awkward orders, shadow systems, reports and historical data before choosing the route.
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At some point in every ERP project, someone says "we'll pick that up in phase two" — and the room nods, because it's the sentence that lets everyone stop arguing. Then you go live, orders go out, invoices go out, and that list quietly becomes something nobody talks about. This…
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The demos are done, the contract's signed, and a calendar invite has landed that just says "discovery". This week Pete, Nirav and Emily take on the first real phase of an ERP implementation — the week where the business has to explain how it actually operates, and where projects…
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Eighty-odd episodes of this show and every one of them has pointed the same way: up. Outgrow the spreadsheets, upgrade, migrate to the cloud, choose your first ERP. This week Pete, Nirav and Emily go the other way and ask the question nobody puts on a slide — should you…
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Pete opens the show with a fourth guest in the room: a live AI, talking back in real time, interruptible mid-sentence. It gives a perfectly competent answer about AI in ERP — augment, don't blindly automate — sings an unsolicited song about master data, and gets thrown off the…
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Think back to your first ERP go-live. If you just winced, this episode's for you. Every prospect meeting has that one person — arms folded, thousand-yard stare, still processing something that happened fifteen years ago. They know the current system is failing. Everyone hates it.…
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Most mornings, someone in your business opens the same screen, sets the same filter and clicks the same button. Tomorrow they'll do it again. Acumatica will do all of it for you — on a timer, in the background, with no code, no integration and no consultant. It's called an…
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