How to Build an ERP System for a Growing Business

ERP fails when it copies an org chart. Stock, lots and invoices have physical meaning.

Growing businesses outgrow spreadsheets before they need a branded ERP suite. The useful system models lots, pallets, invoices and roles as they exist on the floor.

FRIGO SYS was a cold-storage warehouse: zones, racks, billing. AnyWare is modular operations for more than one vertical. Neither started from a catalogue of modules.

If off-the-shelf ERP already matches 90% of the job, buy it. Custom work is for the remaining workflow that actually runs the company. From Tangier I will tell you which is which.