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What I see between the warehouse and the board report - ERP, data quality, BI and AI. How-to notes are for the people who run the systems; opinion notes are for the people who decide.
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October 2026
- I run AI agents on my own server - and client data never goes near them Autonomous agents are useful precisely because they work while nobody watches. That's also the risk. How I split data into two zones, and why the most valuable agent in my setup is the one that checks the other.AI · Opinion · 7 minAIOpinion7 min
- Azure DevOps for Power BI with external developers: the set-up, step by step Entra security groups, B2B guests, group rules that hand out licences, a protected main branch and a Fabric workspace that follows it - the PowerShell and Azure CLI to set it up, and what to check on the way.Power BI · Microsoft Fabric · How-to · 14 minPower BI · Microsoft FabricHow-to14 min
- BOM health: the numbers that show the process still works Rules for BOMs and engineering changes can be measured - and without measuring, they fall apart within a year. Eight indicators, the three to start with, and where the data sits in SAP S/4HANA for a Power BI report.ERP · Power BI · Data quality · How-to · 6 minERP · Power BI · Data qualityHow-to6 min
- Ten tests for your BOM import before go-live The most important test of a BOM import isn't the first load - it's the second. Ten scenarios to run with the implementation partner on one real assembly, the clean-up rules before migration, and a pilot plan with success criteria.ERP · Data quality · How-to · 9 minERP · Data qualityHow-to9 min
- From Excel to PLM: six levels of EBOM-to-MBOM tooling Getting engineering data into the ERP and turning it into a manufacturing BOM are two different problems. Six levels of tooling ordered by entry investment, which one to start with, and how the levels map to SAP S/4HANA.ERP · SAP · Opinion · 9 minERP · SAPOpinion9 min
- Engineering changes: one number, revision or new part, and where-used first Most BOM errors aren't wrong changes - they're changes made in one product that silently apply, or don't, in others. One change number with an impact type, the form-fit-function rule, phase-out as an approved step, and a where-used list on every change.ERP · Opinion · 9 minERPOpinion9 min
- Your ERP will import BOMs from Excel. The second import is the problem. The engineering BOM says what a product is made of; the manufacturing BOM says how it is made. Moving one into the other is not an export and an import - it's a compare-and-merge, and the rules you set at go-live will hold for years.ERP · Data quality · Opinion · 10 minERP · Data qualityOpinion10 min
- Claude Code and Codex on a locked-down Azure VM: set-up and lessons learned A private server with no public inbound port, agents without admin rights, a Telegram gateway and a permission model that looked tighter than it was. The build, the commands and the mistakes worth avoiding.AI · How-to · 16 minAIHow-to16 min
- When does an intermediate deserve its own item number? Seven criteria Every stock record for a semi-finished part costs an order, an issue, a receipt and maintenance on every engineering change. A rule for deciding, per part family, whether a blank or a weldment gets its own item - or stays an operation on the production order.ERP · Opinion · 7 minERPOpinion7 min
- Running a local LLM on a laptop: Ollama, Mistral and Open WebUI in Docker A private ChatGPT-style assistant that never sends a prompt to the cloud - set up step by step on Windows, with an honest look at what it can and can't do on an ordinary business laptop.AI · How-to · 12 minAIHow-to12 min
- Running an ERP project in Microsoft Planner: buckets, labels and rules for four companies A client, an ERP vendor, an MES vendor and an e-shop agency in one plan - using only what a Planner basic plan offers. How to set up buckets, the 25 labels, task naming, checklists and the weekly rhythm, with PowerShell to build and report on the plan, and what an MCP server could add.ERP · AI · How-to · 14 minERP · AIHow-to14 min
- More than one Power BI supplier? The repo belongs in the client's tenant When internal analysts and external suppliers build reports together, versions live on laptops and knowledge leaves with whoever leaves. Four rules for putting Power BI and Fabric under version control that the company - not the supplier - owns.Power BI · Microsoft Fabric · Opinion · 8 minPower BI · Microsoft FabricOpinion8 min
- The quote is the first version of the BOM In a quote, the estimator already decides the blank, the operations, the tool and the purchased parts - before any item exists. The cheapest big saving isn't a new tool, it's costing in the same work centres, operations and rates as the ERP.ERP · Opinion · 6 minERPOpinion6 min
- A free SAP system on your laptop - and reading it from Power BI SAP's ABAP Cloud Developer Trial runs in Docker on Windows. Set-up, a first custom table filled from SAP demo data, and the bridge to Power BI - without touching anyone's production system.SAP · Power BI · How-to · 10 minSAP · Power BIHow-to10 min
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