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For many finance teams, month-end is less about closing the books and more about chasing missing information. Card transactions arrive late, receipts go missing, and expenses land in the wrong accounts. Even a well-automated NetSuite financial close slows down when the data feeding it is incomplete or inconsistent.  The answer is not more work at month-end. It is better data at the moment money is spent. When spend is captured,...

Choosing new finance and accounting software is hard to do alone. Most teams juggle vendor demos, conflicting priorities, and limited time to compare options side by side. The Finance & Accounting Technology Expo puts the market in one room, and Logan Consulting will be there to help you make sense of it.  Visit our team at Booth 1232 to talk through your ERP and CRM questions with consultants who implement...

Keeping up with Business Central is a real challenge for many finance and operations teams. Microsoft delivers two major release waves each year, AI capabilities keep expanding, and organizations still on legacy systems face growing pressure to modernize. Often the hardest part is not the technology itself but knowing which updates matter and how to put them to work.  That is why events like Community Summit North America remain so...

The Go-Live Reality Check Keep orders moving through an ERP changeover by testing what happens between the migration report and the loading dock. By Logan Consulting  |  October 28, 2026  |  5-minute read Conceptual process illustration. An import result is not an end-to-end shipping test. Picture Monday at 6:10 a.m. The migration dashboard is green. A carrier is at the dock. The customer’s order exists in Dynamics 365, but nobody can release it to...

Connected systems. Unanswered questions. Before connecting Dynamics 365 Sales and Finance, decide who can change the customer. Then make the integration prove it. By Logan Consulting • October 26, 2026 • 6-minute read Same value. Different question. A successful sync does not establish business approval. Original conceptual illustration; not a D365 screen. Picture a distributor preparing its first integrated CRM and ERP rollout. Finance has approved Net 30 for a...

When planning next year's budget, companies need to account for both new capital spending and the depreciation expense those purchases will generate. When these numbers are tracked separately, it can be difficult to get a complete picture of future costs. QAD Adaptive ERP provides fixed asset depreciation schedules and general ledger (GL) budgeting tools that help finance teams forecast expenses and compare spending with the budget. Here's how to use...

For life sciences manufacturers, ERP success depends on more than getting transactions into a system. Organizations need reliable reporting, traceable records, and documented evidence that processes operate as intended. Achieving that requires an implementation approach that connects business operations with quality and validation requirements.  Validation should begin with understanding intended use and identifying risk. Which activities affect product quality? Which records must be controlled? How will requirements connect to testing...

A buyer spends the morning following up on purchase orders. A sales coordinator rebuilds a customer request in a spreadsheet before preparing a quote. An accounts payable specialist searches for a receipt that would clear an invoice exception. Each task deserves attention, but together they can consume the time a manufacturer needs for improving operations.  These are useful places to begin a conversation about QAD ChampionAI. Before choosing a tool,...

Nashville / October 11-15, 2026 Microsoft’s direction, the practical lessons beneath the AI headlines, and Logan’s view of what deserves a place on your roadmap. By Logan Consulting • October 22, 2026 • 7-minute read Beyond the headline demos: production-floor execution and accurate reporting remained part of the practical conversation. Photo: Kyle Valerio. The keynote opened to Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5.” An appropriate soundtrack for a conference asking how...

Many NetSuite users rely on standard reports and list views. However, those views do not always answer the questions teams ask every day, such as which invoices are more than 60 days past due. Without a better option, teams export data to spreadsheets and filter it by hand. This takes time, and it often leads to errors. NetSuite saved searches fix this problem. You build a search once, and then...