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Perspectives on ERP, finance, governance and operations.

Field notes from the group — written by the people who build, govern and operate the architectures behind real programmes. No vendor talk, no hype cycle. The questions boards, CFOs and COOs actually have to answer.

NetSuite · Manufacturing 30 April 2026 · 10 min read

NetSuite Manufacturing at SAP and ABAS depth: a capability-first approach.

Why standard NetSuite Manufacturing implementations stall — and what a capability-first approach against ISA-95, MRP II and SCOR actually looks like, informed by the internal JPS-iQ Capability Map across 55 manufacturing requirements.

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ERP architecture 30 April 2026 · 9 min read

The mid-market ERP decision: when Odoo, when weclapp, when Xentral, when NetSuite.

A decision frame for mid-market ERP selection. When does Odoo fit, when weclapp, when Xentral, when NetSuite — and what actually drives the right answer beyond brand preference.

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NetSuite · Finance 26 April 2026 · 10 min read

NetSuite-native consolidation at scale: when you don't need a classical tool.

70+ entities, 4 currencies, full and partial consolidation — all inside NetSuite, no separate consolidation engine. With license profile Financials First Premium plus SuiteProjects.

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ERP architecture 15 April 2026 · 8 min read

The platform is not the strategy. The architecture is.

Why ERP selection should land at the end of the assessment, not in the first call — and what a defensible target architecture actually looks like for international scale.

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Case study 22 April 2026 · 6 min read

Recovering a stalled multi-entity finance close — without restarting the ERP.

An anonymised programme: how a 14-entity group went from 22-day close and four reconciliation tools to an 8-day close on the existing platform — by fixing finance architecture, not the system.

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Finance architecture Coming soon

Multibook before the first module: a CFO-grade finance design checklist.

Chart of accounts, multibook, intercompany, taxes, reporting — the eight decisions that determine whether your ERP will hold under audit pressure two years from now.

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