ERP Guides
Practical advice on ERP, billing, automation and running your industry smarter.
What an ERP AMC should actually cover
An annual maintenance contract is easy to sign and hard to compare. Two quotes at similar prices routinely cover very different things.
How to specify a customisation so it gets built right
Most customisations that get rebuilt were not badly built. They were built exactly as described, and the description was missing the cases that mattered.
Why ERP upgrades get skipped, and what that costs
Skipping an upgrade is always the easy decision in the month it is offered. The cost accumulates somewhere you are not looking.
When to customise your ERP, and when to change how you work
Every customisation is a small permanent liability. Some are clearly worth it. The trouble is that the ones that are not look identical at the time.
PF, ESI, PT and TDS: what Indian payroll software actually has to handle
Indian payroll is not one calculation. It is four sets of rules with different bases, different thresholds and different authorities — and a spreadsheet handles none of them well.
Running cost per kilometre: how to work it out properly
Most fleet owners quote a cost per kilometre. Very few can show how it was calculated — and the figure is usually fuel plus a guess.
Why ERP implementations fail in Indian SMEs
Most failed ERP projects were not sold the wrong software. They were run in an order that made failure likely.
Cloud or on-premise ERP: how to actually decide
The cloud-versus-on-premise argument is usually had in the abstract. Four practical questions settle it faster than any comparison table.
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