For Manufacturing Systems, I Start With One Workflow Before I Touch the Full Suite A dashboard, an order system, and ERP integration can all be valid requirements, but they should not all become the phase-one center at the same time. When I join an early discussion for a manufacturing system, the first proposal often sounds very complete. Management wants a dashboard. Sales wants order tracking. Warehouse wants inventory visibility. Production wants scheduling. Finance wants reconciliation. The existing ERP still needs to be connected. None of these requests are wrong. In fact, they are usually all reasonable. The problem is that a reasonable list can still become an unstable first phase. If every module becomes equally important from day one, the project has no operational spine. The team may end up building many screens, many tables, and many reports, but no single workflow runs reliably enough for daily use.…