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Two weeks ago, in the Acumatica 2026 R2 review, Pete and Nirav said every manufacturer with shop floor activity should probably have something like Acumatica's shop floor kiosk. Pete admits that's quite a big claim, so this week they put version two of the kiosk on screen to see…
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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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Acumatica 2026 R2 is the release that switches the classic UI off for good, and the one where AI stops being a preview and becomes something you connect your own model to. There are hundreds of changes in it. Pete, who works inside a business that runs Acumatica every day, and…
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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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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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