ERP SELECTION INSIGHT AND BEST PRACTICES

The Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) is pushing the industry toward an interoperable, electronic way to identify and trace certain prescription drugs at the package level as they move through the supply chain.

21 CFR Part 11 must provide complete documentation of process controls, record and data integrity safeguards, accuracy assurances, and user authentication and authorization processes.

ASC 606 isn’t a switch—it’s ERP design. This guide turns the 5‑step model into contracts, performance obligations, SSP allocation, events, and schedules you can audit. See how to handle variable consideration, acceptance, and contract changes, then build disclosures that tie to the GL. Includes high‑level pointers for D365, NetSuite, Infor, Epicor, Acumatica, and IFS, plus a checklist to test edge cases before go‑live.

Validation is proving that a system meets the intended purpose it was designed for by confirming that the system works properly. Validating an ERP system involves testing and validating its various components, including security controls, configuration settings, processes, functions, and reports.

ERP implementations run late for predictable reasons: change management, unrealistic estimates, weak governance, bad data and thin resources. Here is how to avoid each one, and why most of them are set during selection.

Where metal service centers strain mainstream ERP - price swings, theoretical against actual weight, remnants and multi-stop delivery - what to test in demonstrations, and what decided a real service center selection.

Recall readiness is not a single feature. It is the ability to detect an issue, contain it quickly, and prove what happened with an audit ready trail.

Before replacing your ERP, determine whether the real problem is the software, implementation partner, business processes, data, or user adoption. An independent ERP assessment can clarify whether optimization, a partner change, or a new ERP selection is the right move.

A CRO sells a service, not a product, so its ERP needs differ: project accounting, milestone invoicing, prepayments and deferred revenue, and time tracking.