How Much Does Construction ERP Cost? A UK Pricing Breakdown
Construction ERP is rarely priced like it looks. The subscription is the small number; implementation, migration, training and the fees nobody quotes upfront are the big ones. Here is what a UK contractor actually pays over five years, and how to think about it.
How to Choose a Production Tracking System: A Buyer's Guide
Choosing a production tracking system comes down to fit and adoption, not feature count — the best-specced tool is worthless if the floor won't log to it. This guide covers the buyer criteria that actually decide success, the pricing and process traps that quietly kill rollouts, and when a right-sized system you own beats both off-the-shelf software and a heavy MES.
GMROI Calculation: The Inventory Metric That Ties Stock to Profit
GMROI answers the one question margin and turnover each answer only half of: for every pound sitting in stock, how many pounds of gross margin does it earn you back? This is the formula, a plain-English worked example in pounds, why a low-margin fast-mover can beat a high-margin slow-mover, and how to use GMROI to rank products and cull ranges.
Blind Count Inventory: What It Is and When to Use It
A blind count is a stock count where the person counting cannot see the system's expected quantity, so they record what's physically on the shelf rather than confirming a number. This guide explains blind vs standard counts, when each is right, and how to run blind counts without drowning in recounts.
Consignment Stock: How It Works and How to Manage It
Consignment stock is inventory that sits in one company's warehouse but stays owned by the supplier until it sells. This post explains who owns it, the cash-flow benefit for both sides, the UK VAT and accounting nuance most guides skip, and why mixing consigned and owned stock quietly wrecks your numbers — plus how an owned system tracks consignment separately without a second spreadsheet.
ERP vs MIS: What Is the Difference (and Which Do You Need)?
ERP and MIS are not rivals: one runs the work and one reports on it. An ERP is the transaction system of record; an MIS is the management information layer that turns those transactions into decisions. This guide defines both plainly, sets them side by side, and explains why most growing businesses conflate them and end up with neither working properly, and what a right-sized owned operations system does instead.
Distribution ERP Software: When You Need It and When You Are Being Oversold
Distribution ERP software is pitched as the system that runs your entire wholesale operation, from stock to despatch to purchasing. This guide explains what it actually covers, why most growing distributors get oversold a heavy platform, and how a right-sized owned system can fix the few workflows that are really costing you money.
Outgrowing PowerApps for Inventory Management
A PowerApps inventory app is the Microsoft build-it-yourself route — until per-user licensing, data integrity and the one maker who owns it hit a ceiling. Here's when it's the right call, when you've outgrown it, and what a custom system changes.
ERP Implementation UK: Scope, Costs and Go-Live Planning
Plan ERP implementation for your UK business: define scope, data migration, integrations, testing and acceptance. Costs and timelines depend on the agreed project.