January 2026 – Lydian Global Business Services Ltd – SAP and supply chain consultants who speak business, not buzzwords

29 Jan 26

ERP Is a System of Record. Please Let It Stay That Way

Every few years, enterprise software rediscovers a temptation: to over-engineer the ERP with whatever the latest intelligence happens to be fashionable. Today, that word is AI.

22 Jan 26

Part 2 of 3: Explaining Manufacturing Scheduling Concepts – The Pizza Edition

Manufacturing schedules rarely fail because the system cannot calculate a sequence. They fail because no one agreed on what the sequence should optimise.

19 Jan 26

Lot Size, Shelf Life, and the Cost of Being Clever

How large should my production lot be if my product has a shelf life of 24 months, but customers stop buying it once it is close to expiry?

15 Jan 26

Building a Supply Chain Planning Model on SAP Data

Many organisations using SAP assume that building a planning model requires extracting large volumes of data or investing in specialised tools. In practice, the challenge is far more basic.

12 Jan 26

Part 1 of 3: Explaining Manufacturing Scheduling Concepts – The Pizza Edition

Manufacturing scheduling often gets buried under terminology long before the underlying ideas are understood.

08 Jan 26

Understanding the Real Role of an MRP Controller in Automotive Supply Chains

In many automotive supply chains, MRP runs complete on time, forecasts are shared, and EDI messages flow as designed. Yet execution still feels strained, reactive, and fragile.

05 Jan 26

Stop Paying for What SAP Already Gives You

Many SAP customers are still being charged heavily for “business process re-engineering” during ERP programmes.

01 Jan 26

Happy New Year 2026

As we step into 2026, most organisations will not be defined by how much technology they adopted last year, but by how well they used what they already had.

Month: January 2026

ERP Is a System of Record. Please Let It Stay That Way

Part 2 of 3: Explaining Manufacturing Scheduling Concepts – The Pizza Edition

Lot Size, Shelf Life, and the Cost of Being Clever

Building a Supply Chain Planning Model on SAP Data

Part 1 of 3: Explaining Manufacturing Scheduling Concepts – The Pizza Edition

Understanding the Real Role of an MRP Controller in Automotive Supply Chains

Stop Paying for What SAP Already Gives You

Happy New Year 2026

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