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An empty industrial service counter with a glowing next-available light and a deserted queue, suggesting support that never arrives

April 13, 2026

5 min read

Your ERP Vendor Is Not Coming to Save You

Support tickets bounce between vendor and partner. The implementer who knew your customisations left. One person understands the configuration. Dissatisfaction with support is driving switch talk - and that is an ops risk, not a product brochure problem.

Stuart TotterdellTechnical Director
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A small, brightly coloured plastic toy robot sitting in the centre of a corporate boardroom table, surrounded by printed business reports and glasses of water

April 8, 2026

4 min read

Your AI Strategy Is a Toy

Most businesses are playing with AI. Almost none are operationalising it. The gap between experimenting and engineering is where real competitive advantage lives - and most SMEs are on the wrong side of it.

Anna TotterdellProjects Director
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An empty operations room with dark unused monitors in the background while desks in the foreground glow with spreadsheet screens and sticky notes

March 13, 2026

5 min read

You Are Paying for an ERP Nobody Uses

Leadership thinks the ERP is live. The floor runs on spreadsheets. Half the modules sit unused while you pay full licence, support, and training costs. Adoption - not feature gaps - is the renew-versus-replace signal you keep ignoring.

Stuart TotterdellTechnical Director
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An older industrial building with new modern steel framework and scaffolding being built around and over the top of the existing structure

March 2, 2026

4 min read

Stop Replacing Your ERP. You Can't Afford It and It Won't Work.

ERP replacement in the mid-market is expensive, slow, and fails more often than it succeeds. The smarter move is to build integration and orchestration layers on top of what you already have - faster, cheaper, and lower risk.

Stuart TotterdellTechnical Director
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A paper order and USB stick sitting in a tray in the gap between sales, warehouse, and finance desks - showing an order that still has to be carried between systems

February 11, 2026

5 min read

Your Order Still Walks Between Systems

Quote to cash and procure to pay still depend on people carrying data between spreadsheet, ERP, warehouse, and finance. That walk is not abstract "integration debt." It is re-keying, chase, and delay - and a new ERP will not stop it by itself.

Stuart TotterdellTechnical Director
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February 1, 2026

4 min read

Practical Marketing Operations Automation: Where to Start

Fiona WestMarketing Consultant
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