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You and your team spent months implementing the shop’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The costs were more than you care to discuss. Despite this, no one can argue that ERP has helped improve efficiency pretty much across the board; there’ve been far fewer material shortages, you now have greater visibility to practically everything, and the production floor has hit its on-time delivery target five months in a row. ERP is a no-brainer no matter what size the shop.