Cut-Over on Pfisterer Consultinghttps://pfisterer.xyz/en/tags/cut-over/Recent content in Cut-Over on Pfisterer ConsultingHugoenMon, 18 May 2026 07:00:00 +0200The Weaker System Won: What a 12-Week M&A Integration Teaches About ERP Selectionhttps://pfisterer.xyz/en/news/mna-erp-cut-over-mittelstand/Mon, 18 May 2026 07:00:00 +0200https://pfisterer.xyz/en/news/mna-erp-cut-over-mittelstand/<p>Friday 18:00. 80 employees log out of their old ERP. Monday 08:00. The same 80 log into the new one.</p> <p>The new one is objectively weaker.</p> <p>Context: M&amp;A integration. In 2025, an international corporation acquired an 80-person Mittelstand firm from professional services. Requirement: all systems and data into the corporate IT estate. Over a single weekend. No business interruption.</p> <p>The corporate ERP could do less than the one it replaced. Different cost accounting, different reports, two incompatible data models. It still had to run.</p>