Your second ERP migration is a different project
The first migration turned paper and tribal knowledge into structured data. The second starts with everything the business learned the hard way.
20 Sep 2026 Read article
ABCs of ERP & Beyond
Independent, practical conversations about choosing, implementing and living with ERP, hosted by Peter Nicholson, Nirav Shah and Emily Browning.
We put an AI on the podcast. Then we talked about what actually breaks.
Clean data, shared definitions, unsupported tools, token costs and lost judgement: the practical problems hiding behind AI-in-ERP demos.
20 Sep 2026 Read article
What a Sage migration exposes before the new ERP goes live
The clean transaction is never the real migration test. Follow the awkward orders, shadow systems, reports and historical data before choosing the route.
20 Sep 2026 Read article
Should you downgrade your ERP?
Some businesses are paying tier 1 ERP costs for complexity they no longer need. Here’s how to test whether a smaller system would serve them better.
19 Sep 2026 Read article
S4E19 | How to Run an ERP Discovery Week That Actually Works
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…
08 Sep 2026 Open episode
Should You Downgrade From Tier 1 to Tier 2 ERP?
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…
25 Aug 2026 Open episode
5 Things That Break When You Put AI in Your ERP
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…
11 Aug 2026 Open episode
5 Reasons Your Second ERP Migration Is Easier Than Your First
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.…
28 Jul 2026 Open episode
Stop Being a Button-Pusher: Acumatica Automation Schedules
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…
14 Jul 2026 Open episode
When Do You Actually Need an ERP? (It's Not Revenue)
A small business owner posted on r/ERP that they'd outgrown their patchwork of spreadsheets and SaaS apps — and had heard they'd need an ERP "once they hit a certain size." They just couldn't work out where that line was. The post sat unanswered. So Pete, Nirav and Emily took the…
30 Jun 2026 Open episode
How to Choose an ERP: 5 Questions to Answer Before You Look at a Single Demo
Choosing the wrong ERP is one of the most expensive mistakes a business can make — and it rarely happens because the software was bad. It happens because the company never worked out what it actually needed before it fell for a slick demo. The tech demo always works. That's the…
16 Jun 2026 Open episode
Upgrade or Migrate? How to Tell Which Your ERP Really Needs
Every ERP project starts with someone saying "we need to do something about our systems". The two real options on the table are usually upgrade or migrate — and most teams treat them as if they're the same kind of project at different scales. They aren't. They're different…
02 Jun 2026 Open episode