Atypical Blog
Engineering, product and ideas.
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.
iPaaS vs point-to-point vs middleware: how to choose
Integration decisions are rarely wrong on the day they are made. They are wrong by the third system.
How to measure an AI agent: the metrics that matter
Automation rate is the metric most often reported and the one least likely to tell you anything.