How to Spot What a Construction ERP Demo Is Hiding From You
The demo was flawless. The vendor walked you through live project tracking, real-time procurement updates, automated approvals, and a dashboard that showed everything in one place. The interface was clean. The presenter had answers for every question. Three months after go-live, your site engineers are still calling the office to report daily progress. Your procurement team is still maintaining a parallel Excel sheet because the system's purchase order workflow does not match how your vendors actually operate. And your finance team is manually reconciling figures because the ERP and Tally are not talking to each other the way the demo suggested they would. This is not a failure of implementation. It is a failure of evaluation. And it happens constantly across Indian infrastructure companies not because decision-makers are careless, but because construction ERP demos are designed to impress, not to reveal. Why ERP Demos Are Designed to Mislead You Every ERP demo runs on a pre-co...