Blockchain ERP Integration: The Failure Modes That Show Up After Go Live
Most writing about blockchain ERP integration stops at the decision. Public or permissioned, which pattern, which platform, whether to proceed at all. That material matters, and it is reasonably well covered. What gets far less attention is the part that determines whether the integration is still running two years later. Integrations rarely fail on launch day. Launch day is the happy path: rehearsed, staffed by the people who built it, with a counterparty who is paying attention. They fail later, quietly, in the gap between a ledger that cannot be edited and an ERP that gets corrected every week. This is a description of that gap, and of what to ask a delivery partner before you sign anything. A pilot proves the part that was never going to break A pilot demonstrates that an event can leave your ERP, reach a ledger and come back. That path is the easy one. It is deterministic, it was written first, and it receives most of the test coverage. The system you actually operate is def...