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RPI Tech Connect

RPI Tech Connect

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RPI Tech Connect brings you real conversations with the people implementing ERP and workforce technology every day. Host Chris Arey talks cloud migrations, change management, and what's working across HR, finance, and supply chain. Every episode leaves you with something you can act on to get more out of your back office.All rights reserved by WRKdefined Economics Management Management & Leadership
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  • How to Keep Your Supply Chain Out of Scramble Mode

    How to Keep Your Supply Chain Out of Scramble Mode
    Oct 6 2026
    The healthcare organizations that avoid the scramble during a shortage usually sorted out how their supply chain runs long before the crisis hit. In honor of Supply Chain Week, SCM Principal Consultant Stephanie Marquez joins RPI Tech Connect to explain what resilience looks like in practice, drawing on about 17 years across manufacturing, healthcare, and consulting. She makes the case for centralized procurement and explains why procure to pay deserves more attention than it gets. She also covers how supplier cybersecurity and HIPAA now touch the supply chain, and where she tells teams to start when the list of fixes feels overwhelming. If you lead or support a healthcare supply chain and want a realistic way to get ahead of the next disruption, this episode is for you.
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    36 mins
  • ERP Implementation Planning Should Prepare You to Run It

    ERP Implementation Planning Should Prepare You to Run It
    Sep 22 2026
    A lot of ERP work gets pushed to "after go-live," and then it gets done in a hurry, if at all. Learning the system, securing it, and deciding who runs it are three items that tend to get pushed out. Ken Foley, Vice President of RPI Consultants' Infor Practice, returns to RPI Tech Connect to argue that ERP implementation planning should cover this work from day one Drawing on nearly 30 years in the Lawson and Infor space, Ken covers role design across every CloudSuite application, the change control process auditors will eventually ask you to produce, and segregation of duties. Plus, hear why the first few months after go-live are busy enough with support issues that anything postponed gets postponed again. If you’re considering an ERP project, this conversation is a must-listen before starting!
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    51 mins
  • Lost in Translation on Your IT Project?

    Lost in Translation on Your IT Project?
    Sep 9 2026
    Business and technical teams typically walk into a project after the same outcomes. They just describe it in very different terms, and somewhere between kickoff and delivery it gets easy for everyone to get lost in the sauce. Sarah Wimberley, founder of Ulster Technologies, has spent 14 years in healthcare sitting between the people who run the business and the people who build the systems for it, finding language both sides can work from. In this episode of RPI Tech Connect, she walks through her five-step framework for IT project communication, built to turn strategic objectives into successful delivery: defining the problem before chasing the perceived one, bringing the right people into discovery early, designing the future state around people before picking a platform, connecting the work back to strategy, and keeping the lines of communication open once delivery picks up speed. She also shares what organizations most often discover about their current-state documentation, why a discovery session only works when the room feels safe, and the one piece of advice she'd give anyone stepping into a translator role. If your stakeholders agree on the destination but keep getting stuck on how to get there, this episode is for you! *Chapters:* 00:00 Welcome to RPI Tech Connect 2:15 Exploring The Communication Gap Between Technical & Business Teams 4:05 Step 1: Define the Problem at Hand, Document the Change 9:31 Step 2: Get the Right Personnel in the Room 16:17 Step 3: Design Your System Around People First 25:07 Step 4: Intersection of Strategy & Technology 31:26 Step 5: Institute An “Open-Door” Policy 35:48 Final Thoughts & Takeaways
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    38 mins
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