Research cluster
ERP selection and evaluation
How to evaluate and choose the right platform: tiers, fit by industry, and the vendor comparisons for utilities and manufacturing, built on how these businesses actually run.
- ERP for utilities: five vendors comparedPillar No utility ERP vendor leads all four scoring areas. How your size and rate case calendar pick the shortlist, and why only SAP and Oracle own a billing engine.
- How to choose the right ERP softwarePillar A defensible software choice comes from fit, not a vendor 'alternatives' list: the right tier for your size, named conditions for each vendor, and reference customers of your shape.
- Manufacturing ERP for executivesPillar Below about $500M and ten plants, a tier 2 system covers the operation for roughly half the cost and in a third of the time. When SAP or Oracle is overkill, and when it earns its price.
- The utility CIO's ERP checklist for the next budget cycle Six questions decide a utility ERP program before the RFP: CIS sequencing, the FERC chart of accounts, rate-case timing, asset-data cleanup, the field-service test, and the segment shortlist.
- When a tier 2 ERP is right for a $1B company At $500M to $5B, both tiers are live and the budget differs 3x to 10x. The conditions that decide it are entities, countries, volume, and five-year growth, not revenue.
- Why manufacturing ERP programs fail on MES, not finance Shop-floor and MES integration is the largest cost driver in a mid-market manufacturing program, ahead of finance. The MES decision belongs in the vendor choice, not after it.
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