The Real Go-Live of ERP Happens About Three Months In - article by Lee Stout

The Real Go-Live of ERP Happens About Three Months In. | Published in Supply Chain Brain

Three months after go-live, the spreadsheets come back. Inventory stops matching the system. Planners start padding buffers because nobody trusts the numbers. Expediting becomes the default — and leadership starts wondering whether the whole…
The ERP Decision That Almost Made Me Walk Away - article by Lee Stout

The ERP Decision That Almost Made Me Walk Away | Published in Manufacturing Tomorrow

Selecting software should be the last decision in an ERP project, not the first. That runs contrary to how most manufacturers approach it — and it's the mistake that quietly sinks implementations before they ever go live. I wrote about a project…