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Read articleSpreadsheets are brilliant — right up to the point where the business runs on them instead of with them. Here are the five signs we see most often before an ERP project starts.
1. Month-end takes weeks
If closing the books means chasing files from three departments and reconciling numbers that never quite match, your team is doing integration work by hand — every single month.
2. Nobody trusts the stock figure
When the warehouse count, the sales sheet and the finance sheet each show a different quantity, decisions get made on the loudest number rather than the right one.
3. One person is the system
There's a spreadsheet only Ahmed understands, with formulas only Ahmed can fix. When he's on leave, invoicing waits. That's not a process — it's a dependency.
4. Reports describe last month, not today
If leadership sees performance weeks after it happened, every correction comes late. An ERP shows receivables, stock and sales as of right now.
5. Copy-paste is a job description
People re-typing the same order into three files aren't lazy or careless when errors slip in — the process guarantees errors. Systems should pass data to each other.
An ERP doesn't replace your people. It replaces the copy-paste between them.
An implementation done right starts small — finance and inventory first, then the rest. If any of the five signs sounded familiar, that conversation is worth an hour of your time.
