Triad Software Services

Before I let a CFO sign an ERP, I ask 7 FX questions. Most vendors can’t answer 3. That’s why 90% of finance teams end up with Excel hacks & month-end fire drills. If your ERP can’t handle reval, dual currency, or live FX rates—you don’t need it. You need answers.

The 7 ERP risks vendors never put on slides: Local compliance gaps Costing mismatches FX suspense chaos No audit reversals Custom fields block upgrades Phantom inventory Excel creep Not in the brochure—always after go-live.

I’ve sat in 200+ ERP discovery calls. Here’s the secret: CFOs don’t buy ERPs. They buy answers to 7 FX questions. If you fumble even one—on revaluation, multi-currency, parallel ledgers, locking, gains/losses, hybrid rules, or automation—the deal dies in the room.

Don't let your ERP migration become a ghost town of bad data. I use a Post-Migration Cleanup Loop in the first 30 days that's saved CFOs major headaches. You need to purge: Test Master Data Zombie Workflows Dummy Docs Orphaned Accounts Cleanup is success. Assign owners.

We audited 200+ factories in UAE & KSA. Found $50M stuck in phantom WIP—scrapped, damaged, shipped, but still “alive” in ERP. It bloats balance sheets, distorts COGS & kills margins. In 2 weeks we unlocked it. Ask: how much ghost WIP is haunting your books? #Manufacturing

UAT isn’t pretty dashboards. It’s chaos-proofing. 💥 Break data uploads 💥 Kill WiFi mid-approval 💥 Push tax changes overnight 💥 Flood with 200 users 💥 Break payroll APIs Real ERPs survive the worst day of the year. Which brutal UAT would you run first?

30-Minute Intercompany Truth Audit. If eliminations live in spreadsheets, consolidation = fiction. Timing gaps, FX errors, phantom balances, post-period fixes → audit risk every close. Fail 2 of 4 checks (ERP vs Excel, FX control, rule-based, real-time) = guesswork.

90 days after Go-Live, most firms think it’s done. That’s when cracks show. In 30+ ERP stability audits across UAE, KSA & Qatar, not one passed all 4 gates: adoption, balances, helpdesk, recall. ERP doesn’t fail at go-live—it fails in Month 2–3, quietly.

Before I touch any ERP, I ask the CFO 3 questions: 1️⃣ Invoice approval cycle time 2️⃣ Actual vs committed spend deviation 3️⃣ % manual JEs If answers are slow (or ugly), the ERP is already leaking. 100+ audits in UAE/KSA/Oman prove these 3 numbers expose ERP health.

If your ERP can’t show cash, margin, stock & debt in 60s → pause every feature request. I’ve seen boards make million$ mistakes from wrong numbers. My 5-min “Cash-in-60s” audit checks: 💰Cash pulse 📊Margin drilldown 📦Stock reality 💳Debt snapshot. How fast is yours?

5 yrs ago, I watched a $1M ERP crash. Right intent, budget, product—yet chaos: 🚩 Overwhelmed teams 🚩 Tick-box UAT 🚩 No real change mgmt. Rebooted from scratch: aligned processes, involved users early, tested like war. Lesson? ERP fails from misalignment, not software.

A $20M+ ERP collapsed at a UAE plastics plant because “mm” ≠ “millimeter.” ☠️ $20M inventory vanished ☠️ Negative WIP stock ☠️ 3 days of halted production Root cause? Unit-of-Measure chaos. How many “KG” formats exist in your ERP? (Hint: never one.)

I’ve sat through 100+ ERP demos. SAP, Oracle, Dynamics, Sage. Every vendor misses the only Q that kills adoption: “Undo last month’s mistake in 120s.” Silence. Features don’t matter. Recovery speed does. If undo takes days + consultants, you’ve built a liability, not an ERP

This 12-step failure checklist has killed more bad ERP deals than RFPs. Any ERP looks fine in a demo. The real test? Dirty masters, dual UOMs, angry auditors. If 3 turn red, pause the project. Cheaper to break a demo than bleed in go-live. #ERP #Sage #CFO

The 60-Sec Trace Test: If you can’t trace Batch → Lot → Customer in under a minute, you don’t have inventory—you have liability. I’ve seen firms burn hours & spreadsheets just to answer “Who bought Lot 7G19?” Could you pass the test today? #SupplyChain #ERP

The 5-Minute ERP Health Check. 10 boxes. If 3 are red, pause every project. Most “ERP failures” aren’t software—they’re silent control gaps I use this checklist in every rescue 0–2 red: optimize. 3–5 red: freeze scope. 6+: stop & re-baseline Ping “Sage” to see it in action.

We audited 50+ ERP rollouts in MEA last year. 90% of “failures” weren’t software—they were ops rules, dirty masters, shadow processes. ERP just scaled bad inputs. Across SAP, Oracle, Odoo, Sage… the same 7 killers repeat. Ignore them & your system fails too.

Middle East CFOs: Run these 9 kill-tests before your auditor does Last quarter, a Saudi group called me 48h pre-audit. FX looked fine, e-invoice matched, but VAT didn’t tie. Revals were “netted,” and SAR 6.2M sat in suspense. Want me to stress-test your numbers? DM -Sage VAT/FX

Your ERP didn’t fail—your units did. Saw 4.3% margin bleed from teams using PCS, Nos, Each etc. No system bug; just messy UOMs, rounding drift, wrong cost bases, tax mismatches. Audit UOMs, enforce one list, assign a steward. Want a quick UOM test? DM “Sage”.

$4.6M “missing”… then back. A Saudi firm recovered SAR 17.3M after a fraud case. ERP firewalls I test: 1⃣ No end-to-end SoD breaks 2⃣ Evidence-grade vendor logs 3⃣ Real-time CCM alerts Logs ≠ control. Block or fail. DM “SAGE” for a 10-min audit.