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Reducing ERP Customization is one of the fastest ways to remove friction from your ERP. Fewer customizations mean easier upgrades, lower risk, and a system that can scale without breaking every time you change something.

Growth isn’t the problem for CPG brands—managing it is. The real challenge begins when retail, Amazon, and eCommerce channels all run on disconnected systems. A unified ERP for CPG brands brings order to the chaos, giving teams one source of truth for inventory, orders, and financials so they can scale without operational fire drills.

Choosing an aggressive ERP implementation timeline isn’t the problem—cutting the wrong corners is. Cloud ERP and tools like Dynamics 365 Business Central, AI, and automation can absolutely shrink your project schedule, but they don’t replace the hard work of requirements, process alignment, compliance, and testing. In this article, we break down where you can safely gain speed, which tasks you should never rush, and how to go live faster without creating post-go-live chaos.

Here’s a truth I learned as a kid watching rockets launch from the Florida coast: every successful mission depends on more than just the astronauts—it depends on the system guiding them. The same goes for today’s medical device manufacturers. In an industry where precision, safety, and timing can change lives,  you don’t just need innovation; you need control.   That’s where ERP for medical device manufacturing comes in. I’ve spent three decades helping companies tighten that