The Cost of ERP: Licence, TCO, and Why ROI Is Slippery | ERP for Beginners S2 Ep6

The Season Two finale of ERP for Beginners. Every ERP pitch starts with a licence price. That number, on its own, is almost never the real cost of the thing. On a realistic ten-year ownership horizon the licence is ten to twenty-five percent of total spend — the rest is implementation, operation, and change, and every one of those buckets is chronically underestimated.