New here? This page is the shortest path into the blog. Five posts that cover the ground most consultants, planners, and BC technical leads ask about — costing, planning, performance, and the free tools I’ve published. After these you’ll have a clear picture of what’s here and where to go next.
1. Start with the strategic essay
Why Most ERP Projects Fail (and How to Avoid It) — 6 min read. Sets the lens I use for everything else on the blog. If you’ve ever watched a BC implementation go sideways and wondered why, this is the post I’d hand a project sponsor. It frames the rest of the technical content.
2. Then learn how planning really works
APICS Planning in BC — Field Guide for Consultants — 15–20 min. The most-read technical post on the blog. Maps APICS/ASCM concepts (MPS, MRP, CRP, planning horizons) to the actual Business Central pages and setup decisions you’ll touch. If you’ve ever struggled to translate textbook planning theory into a BC implementation, this is the bridge.
3. Get costing right (or it will hurt you later)
The Complete Guide to Standard Cost Updates — 12 min. Standard cost is the area I see consultants get wrong most often. This walks through what a clean standard cost roll-up looks like, where the G/L reconciliation breaks, and the variance investigations that actually matter. Pair it with my inventory valuation troubleshooting post if you’re already in trouble.
4. The flagship: free open-source extension
Safety Stock in BC: Theory + Free Extension — 10 min. The full Z-score safety stock formula, why the BC built-in field is misleading, and a free AL extension I open-sourced that calculates Safety Stock and EOQ automatically. If you only read one practical post here, this is the one. The extension is on GitHub with MIT license.
5. When BC gets slow (and you need to fix it)
Locking & Blocking in BC v27 — 14 min. The single most useful performance post for technical BC people. Shows the Database Locks page (new in v27), how to read it, the AL patterns that cause locks, and the indexes that solve them. Includes real lock-graph screenshots from production tenants.
Where to go next
- Browse by topic on the Topics page — Manufacturing, Costing, Performance, AL Development, and more
- See all the open-source AL repos on GitHub
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- Get in touch if you have a BC project, edge case, or speaking invitation
Posts here are field notes from 15 years on Business Central and 30 years in ERP — written so the next consultant, planner, or developer doesn’t have to learn the same thing the hard way.