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Practical thinking on operations, systems, and growth.
Dynamics NAV End of Support: What to Decide Before January 2028
Extended support for Dynamics NAV 2017 ends in January 2027 and for NAV 2018 in January 2028. What that means in practice, the three realistic options, and a plan that works back from the date.
Read more →Your First Year-End Close on a New ERP: A Practical Plan
Went live on a new ERP this year? The first year-end close is where every shortcut from the migration comes back. What to check in October and November, and how to run the close itself.
Read more →Germany’s 2027 E-Invoicing Deadline: What Groups With a German Subsidiary Need to Do Now
From 1 January 2027, German companies with more than €800,000 turnover must issue structured e-invoices. If your group owns a German subsidiary, its ERP has about three months left to get ready.
Read more →Carve-Out ERP Separation: Getting Off the Seller’s Systems Before the TSA Runs Out
After a carve-out, the ERP is almost always the last thing still running on the seller’s side. How to choose between cloning, a clean build or the buyer’s platform, and how to leave before the TSA ends.
Read more →Belgium’s 2028 E-Reporting: What It Means for Your ERP
From 2028, Belgium plans to have both supplier and customer report every domestic B2B invoice to the tax authority in near real time. Peppol was a connectivity project. This one is about your data.
Read more →Custom Operations Software for SMEs Is Now Trivial to Build. With the Right Harness.
Keep finance and inventory in a packaged ERP. Build the operations layer custom. AI coding models inside the right harness made that affordable for an SME, and here is the method and the evidence from my own repository.
Read more →Should You Go Live With Your New ERP on January 1?
A January 1 ERP go-live gives you a clean fiscal year and costs you a holiday cutover and a finance team that is already closing. Here is how to decide, while the date can still move.
Read more →Variable Compensation Beyond Sales and Management
Nobody questions that sales and management are paid on performance. The rest of the company gets a fixed salary and a yearly review. Here are three places where that changed, in customer service, on a delivery route and on a packaging line, why points beat euros, and where these schemes go wrong.
Read more →Tactical Delivery Planning: Why Balanced Routes Cost You Kilometres
Most long-term planning tools for periodic delivery still balance the week first and count the kilometres afterwards. Here is how we draw a service area instead, why a highway with three exits explains the difference, and what it did to fuel bills.
Read more →From Chaos to Clarity: Making Operations Visible
Operational chaos is rarely bad management. It is usually a company that outgrew the way it remembers how its own work is done. And clarity is more specific than a folder of diagrams.
Read more →Go-Live Is Not the Goal
Go-live is the most heavily defended date in an ERP project and the least meaningful one. Governance treats it as an ending. That is why the outcome the system was bought to produce never gets measured.
Read more →Why Post-Go-Live Support Fails and How to Tell If Yours Is Failing
Post-go-live support rarely fails for technical reasons. It fails because support was scoped as a phase, the knowledge left with the implementation partner, and nothing turns a recurring incident into a fixed process.
Read more →The Hidden Costs of Failing Post-Go-Live Support
Post-go-live support costs what it costs whether you budgeted for it or not. Seven places the money actually goes when support is under-resourced, and what a properly funded arrangement looks like instead.
Read more →What Happens After Go-Live
Go-live is the day your new system becomes the system of record. It is not the day the project ends. What the weeks after it actually consist of, who owns each part, and when hypercare should stop.
Read more →How to Run a 12-Week ERP Implementation
Most ERP projects take 6–18 months. We’ve delivered them in 12 weeks. Three times. Here’s how.
Read more →The M&A Integration Checklist
Most M&A integrations fail in the first 90 days. This checklist covers everything from pre-close to execution.
Read more →Staff Augmentation vs. Permanent Hire
A permanent hire in Belgium costs €4,500–€7,500/month all-in. When does staff augmentation make more sense?
Read more →Process Mapping 101: A Practical Guide
Every business has processes. Most have never mapped them. Here’s how to start and why it matters.
Read more →The ERP Application Management Guide
Most businesses treat their ERP as set-and-forget. That’s a costly mistake. Here’s what active management looks like.
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