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Insights from Dr. Harald Dreher

Discover strategies, best practices and lessons learned from Dr. Harald Dreher. From vendor selection to project rescue, these insights help you avoid pitfalls and achieve measurable results.

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AI Agents in ERP: From Linear Projects to a Learning System

From linear process to learning system: how AI agents turn industrial project business into a loop that learns from every job. AI × ERP series · Part ...
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Vetting your implementation partner: how to tell in time whether your ERP project will deliver

Key points When the ERP contract is signed, control over the project passes from the buyer to the implementation partner. The team that won the ...
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Sharing Data Without Losing Control: Federated Learning and Data Spaces

Why the biggest AI lever in manufacturing sits outside your own plant — and how to use it without giving your data away. A status assessment drawn ...
Enterprise Architecture Health Assessment: Check the ERP Foundation image

Enterprise Architecture Health Assessment: Check the ERP Foundation
Data Quality: The Invisible Foundation of AI-Ready ERP Systems image

Data Quality: The Invisible Foundation of AI-Ready ERP Systems
Why ERP Data Alone Cannot Support Industrial AI image

Why ERP Data Alone Cannot Support Industrial AI
Business Case for AI in ERP Processes: How to Quantify the Benefit image

Business Case for AI in ERP Processes: How to Quantify the Benefit
On what basis do you sign a ten-year ERP contract? image

On what basis do you sign a ten-year ERP contract?
Why ERP projects fail before the first line of code is written image

Why ERP projects fail before the first line of code is written
Avoiding ERP Mistakes: Minimising ERP Selection Risk image

Avoiding ERP Mistakes: Minimising ERP Selection Risk
What risks associated with an ERP migration do you need to be aware of? image

What risks associated with an ERP migration do you need to be aware of?
AI in ERP: How SAP and Agentic AI Are Changing the Game image

AI in ERP: How SAP and Agentic AI Are Changing the Game
EAM Frameworks for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses: TOGAF & ArchiMate image

EAM Frameworks for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses: TOGAF & ArchiMate
EAM for Digital Transformation in Small and Medium-Sized Businesses image

EAM for Digital Transformation in Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
How to Successfully Conduct the ERP Selection Process - Dreher Consulting image

How to Successfully Conduct the ERP Selection Process - Dreher Consulting
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Enterprise Architecture Management: Why your ERP selection starts with architecture — not software

Mythbuster, eight red flags, a five-question self-test — and why documented end-to-end processes and train-the-trainer programs are essential for ...

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How SCOReX® Improves ERP Selection Through Better Decision Logic image

How SCOReX® Improves ERP Selection Through Better Decision Logic
What are the most important digital trends for small and medium-sized businesses in 2026? image

What are the most important digital trends for small and medium-sized businesses in 2026?
Are we heading for a massive cloud ERP crisis in the 2030s? image

Are we heading for a massive cloud ERP crisis in the 2030s?
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: A Handbook for the Curious image

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: A Handbook for the Curious
Mastering ERP implementation under MDR compliance: A guide for medtech companies image

Mastering ERP implementation under MDR compliance: A guide for medtech companies
Decisive Advantages of Digitalisation for a Company image

Decisive Advantages of Digitalisation for a Company
From Pilot to Profit: The Strategic Guide to Realizing AI Value Creation image

From Pilot to Profit: The Strategic Guide to Realizing AI Value Creation
AI as a cost revolution: from pilot project to profit image

AI as a cost revolution: from pilot project to profit
Where are the levers for sustainably reducing costs through AI? image

Where are the levers for sustainably reducing costs through AI?
How can I save costs when selecting an ERP? image

How can I save costs when selecting an ERP?
The 6 top process management software in comparison image

The 6 top process management software in comparison
Why digitalisation is not software. It is the future of your company. image

Why digitalisation is not software. It is the future of your company.
Why independent advice makes the difference in ERP and transformation decisions image

Why independent advice makes the difference in ERP and transformation decisions
Independent consulting: Why the first-principle approach saves ERP and digitalisation projects image

Independent consulting: Why the first-principle approach saves ERP and digitalisation projects
Enterprise architecture as a success factor in ERP selection: How to make the right decision image

Enterprise architecture as a success factor in ERP selection: How to make the right decision
What criteria are decisive when selecting an ERP system with regard to enterprise architecture (EA)? image

What criteria are decisive when selecting an ERP system with regard to enterprise architecture (EA)?
Why use independent ERP consultants? The key to a vendor-neutral ERP selection image

Why use independent ERP consultants? The key to a vendor-neutral ERP selection
When is independent ERP consulting worthwhile for a company? image

When is independent ERP consulting worthwhile for a company?
Independent ERP consulting: How to find the best advice for your company image

Independent ERP consulting: How to find the best advice for your company
How AI is changing ERP selection in SMEs image

How AI is changing ERP selection in SMEs
Why is master data so important in an ERP project? image

Why is master data so important in an ERP project?
How do I recognize that my ERP system is outdated? image

How do I recognize that my ERP system is outdated?
How do I digitize business processes with my ERP system? image

How do I digitize business processes with my ERP system?
Why ERP modernization may be necessary image

Why ERP modernization may be necessary
When is enterprise architecture useful or necessary in ERP consulting? image

When is enterprise architecture useful or necessary in ERP consulting?
Cloud ERP or on-premise: the strategic choice for German SMEs image

Cloud ERP or on-premise: the strategic choice for German SMEs
Requirement & Functional Specification — Free Infographic image

Requirement & Functional Specification — Free Infographic
How SMEs Can Seize the Opportunity of Digitisation: Benefits, Growth Potentials and Winning Strategies image

How SMEs Can Seize the Opportunity of Digitisation: Benefits, Growth Potentials and Winning Strategies
Do you underestimate the power of master data for the success of your ERP project? image

Do you underestimate the power of master data for the success of your ERP project?
Bringing your ERP project safely to the finish line: Successfully through the hypercare phase image

Bringing your ERP project safely to the finish line: Successfully through the hypercare phase
What is ERP Consulting and What Does an ERP Consultant Do? image

What is ERP Consulting and What Does an ERP Consultant Do?
Digital Transformation and Sales 4.0 image

Digital Transformation and Sales 4.0
ERP Consulting explained: Definition, Cost, Benefits, Services & Expertise image

ERP Consulting explained: Definition, Cost, Benefits, Services & Expertise
ERP Implementation: The process, success factors & ERP checklist image

ERP Implementation: The process, success factors & ERP checklist
What is an ERP system? image

What is an ERP system?
5 Essentials to Check in An ERP Software License Agreement image

5 Essentials to Check in An ERP Software License Agreement
What should I look for in a modern ERP system? image

What should I look for in a modern ERP system?
ERP Specifications - Really necessary for Software Selection? image

ERP Specifications - Really necessary for Software Selection?
Master Data and ERP Implementation image

Master Data and ERP Implementation
How does pick-by-voice work? image

How does pick-by-voice work?
What You Should Know Before CRM Implementation image

What You Should Know Before CRM Implementation
Master Data Management in the ERP System or Across Software? (Part 2) image

Master Data Management in the ERP System or Across Software? (Part 2)
ERP Selection & Change Management. What Is Important in Project Work? image

ERP Selection & Change Management. What Is Important in Project Work?
What is the prerequisite for innovation? image

What is the prerequisite for innovation?
ERP Implementation at Falke Textile Industry image

ERP Implementation at Falke Textile Industry
Efficient Business Management through Big Data Analysis image

Efficient Business Management through Big Data Analysis
Big DATA, What Is Behind it? image

Big DATA, What Is Behind it?
Master Data Management - Aspects of Practical Implementation (Part 3) image

Master Data Management - Aspects of Practical Implementation (Part 3)
ERP Systems, Master Data & New Challenges (Part 1) image

ERP Systems, Master Data & New Challenges (Part 1)
10 STEPS TO SUCCESS - AN ERP IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS MODEL image

10 STEPS TO SUCCESS - AN ERP IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS MODEL
Cloud ERP or self-hosted ERP? A comparison. image

Cloud ERP or self-hosted ERP? A comparison.
ERP Selection in the SME Sector image

ERP Selection in the SME Sector
What Are the Tasks of an ERP Consultant? image

What Are the Tasks of an ERP Consultant?
ERP Financial Accounting - Integrated or Not? image

ERP Financial Accounting - Integrated or Not?
Successful ERP Project Management image

Successful ERP Project Management
Why is Digitisation & Digital Transformation a Marathon? image

Why is Digitisation & Digital Transformation a Marathon?
The Challenges of ERP Software Implementation image

The Challenges of ERP Software Implementation
ERP Selection: What you need to Consider image

ERP Selection: What you need to Consider
Digitalisation is the big business driver - why is that? image

Digitalisation is the big business driver - why is that?
ERP Implementation in a Co-Operative image

ERP Implementation in a Co-Operative
3 Process Management Methods that optimise your processes image

3 Process Management Methods that optimise your processes
Understanding ERP Systems: A Comprehensive Guide for Businesses image

Understanding ERP Systems: A Comprehensive Guide for Businesses
Business Process vs Process Management image

Business Process vs Process Management
Process Management - Definition image

Process Management - Definition
Requirements Specification Vs Functional Specification image

Requirements Specification Vs Functional Specification
Home Office - How to Master Remote Working or Working from Home image

Home Office - How to Master Remote Working or Working from Home
Corona & Project Work - How Does it Still Work? image

Corona & Project Work - How Does it Still Work?
ERP and CRM - When Should You Choose Which System? image

ERP and CRM - When Should You Choose Which System?
6 POINTS ON MASTER DATA AND ERP SOFTWARE THAT ENSURE PROJECT SUCCESS image

6 POINTS ON MASTER DATA AND ERP SOFTWARE THAT ENSURE PROJECT SUCCESS
What does digital transformation mean for a company? image

What does digital transformation mean for a company?
4 PROS & CONS OF CLOUD COMPUTING image

4 PROS & CONS OF CLOUD COMPUTING