Atypical Blog
Engineering, product and ideas.
Quote-to-order handoff: CRM to ERP without retyping
The moment a quote becomes an order, someone in most companies opens a second system and types it all in again.
ERP support after go-live: a model beyond one key person
The implementation partner leaves. What replaces them is usually one overloaded employee, by accident.
ERP data migration: what to clean, archive and leave behind
Migration is scheduled as one line on the plan. It behaves like the plan.
Multi-subsidiary ERP: one chart of accounts, many currencies
The chart of accounts is the one design decision every other decision has to live with.
Standard vs customised ERP: when to configure or script
Every customisation is a promise to maintain something forever. Most requests are not worth the promise.
From reporting to forecasting: what finance needs first
A forecast built on an unreliable close is a confident guess, not a forecast.
Manual journal entries: the real cost for finance teams
Nobody has ever costed a journal entry. That is exactly why there are so many of them.
Order-to-cash as a single system: who owns the numbers
Nobody owns order-to-cash, which is exactly why it breaks between every department that touches it.
Finance transformation without an ERP re-implementation
Most of what a CFO wants from transformation is available before the next ERP project, not after it.