Enterprise IT
Enterprise-grade systems.
Mid-market sized.
Stack modernization for mid-market operators — distributors, manufacturers, automotive suppliers, and anyone whose real ERP is currently a spreadsheet named FINAL_v7.
Field notes
Short. Operational. From the floor, not the boardroom.
Field note · 20 Jul
Before You Add AI, Find the Part Number
The Dashboard Plant Managers Actually Use
Plant managers don't ignore your dashboard because they're change-resistant. They ignore i…
Field note · 14 Jul
EDI Is Not Dead, It's Just Embarrassing
Field note · 14 Jul
From Garage Chaos to Supply-Chain Discipline
Field note · 14 Jul
Power Apps Is for Exception Handling, Not ERP Cosplay
Field note · 14 Jul
The Fantasy of Deterministic Logistics
Field note · 14 Jul
The Part Number That Meant Three Things
Field note · 14 Jul
When Not to Replace the ERP
Field note · 14 Jul
Why Fabric Is Overkill for Your Supplier
Field note · 14 Jul
You Don't Have to Rewrite It
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Whitepapers
Field guides. Not vendor brochures. No gate worth calling a gate.
Whitepaper · 14 Jul
Automotive Inventory & Service Metrics That Actually Matter
The automotive operations metrics that actually drive decisions — DIFOT/OTIF, inventory record accuracy, core returns, and line-down cost — mostly fail not from bad software but fr…
Whitepaper · 14 Jul
What Copilot Can Realistically Do in Automotive Operations (and What It Can't)
Whitepaper · 14 Jul
Rail, Freight Priority, and Winter as Corridor Lead-Time Variables
Whitepaper · 14 Jul
When to Use Dataverse vs Azure SQL vs Microsoft Fabric for Automotive Operations Data
Whitepaper · 14 Jul
Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations vs Business Central for Automotive Suppliers
Whitepaper · 14 Jul
The Automotive Supplier's Excel Exit Plan: How to Replace Shadow Systems Without Breaking Operations
Whitepaper · 14 Jul
How Automotive Parts Master Data Should Be Governed
Whitepaper · 14 Jul
How to Modernize Automotive EDI Without Every Partner Being API-Ready
Ways to work together
Dynamics 365 roadmap · Power Platform governance · Dashboard rescue · Excel exit plan
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Glossary
The vocabulary of the mess, defined precisely.
The stack
Instruments, not magic objects. Copilot only where it earns its lunch.
Editorial rule 5
Respect Excel. It is often the symptom, not the disease.
Operations do not care about your architecture diagram.
Core
Dynamics 365
Workflow
Power Platform
Visibility
Power BI
Data
SQL · Dataverse · Fabric
Integration
Logic Apps · Functions
Identity
Entra ID
Containment
SharePoint · Teams
Legacy
.NET · VB · ASP
The garage
VB5 → .NET → Dynamics 365. Quebec City → Southwestern Ontario.
I built my first inventory and orders system for my uncle's garage as a teenager. VB5, backed by CSV files, held together with more optimism than architecture. It tracked parts, suppliers, jobs, invoices, and all the little frictions that make the automotive world run or stall.
It worked. Twenty-five years later the stack is Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Azure — but the lesson from the garage still holds: software succeeds when it respects the mess it is replacing.
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