At a pharmaceutical manufacturer with multi-country operations (names and details modified), the ERP transformation had become a standing agenda item in quarterly board meetings
At a pharmaceutical manufacturer with multi-country operations (names and details modified), the ERP transformation had become a standing agenda item in quarterly board meetings
At an automotive components manufacturer (names and operational specifics have been altered to protect identities), the go-live war room is in full swing.
In most SAP programmes, alignment between finance and operations is assumed once integration points are configured and tested.
Every long term SAP practitioner eventually notices one consistent behavior in the system. SAP generates error messages with remarkable discipline
Every interface in an SAP landscape carries a cost that rarely appears on project plans.
Every few years, enterprise software rediscovers a temptation: to over-engineer the ERP with whatever the latest intelligence happens to be fashionable. Today, that word is AI.
How large should my production lot be if my product has a shelf life of 24 months, but customers stop buying it once it is close to expiry?
Many organisations using SAP assume that building a planning model requires extracting large volumes of data or investing in specialised tools. In practice, the challenge is far more basic.
As we step into 2026, most organisations will not be defined by how much technology they adopted last year, but by how well they used what they already had.