ERP and Warehouse Integration Feasibility Checklist
An integration is feasible when ownership, identifiers, supported interfaces, exception handling, and reconciliation can be made explicit before data starts moving.
Questions to answer first
- Which system owns customers, products, stock, orders, fulfilment status, and invoices?
- Do both systems use stable identifiers for the same business records?
- Which APIs, database views, exports, webhooks, or scheduled files are officially supported?
- How quickly must data move, and what happens when one system is unavailable?
- Who investigates rejected, duplicated, delayed, or mismatched records?
A practical review sequence
Define the business event
Describe what should trigger each data movement and what operational decision depends on it.
Assign data ownership
Choose one source of truth for each field and document where updates are permitted.
Test the interface
Confirm authentication, limits, environments, sample payloads, vendor restrictions, and support arrangements.
Design failure visibly
Specify validation, retries, idempotency, alerts, manual correction, and replay before implementation.
Reconcile outcomes
Produce a repeatable report that proves expected records reached the destination once and with the right values.
Red flags
- The same field is editable in both systems without a precedence rule
- Record matching depends on names or free-text descriptions
- Failures are logged but no one is notified
- A spreadsheet is the undocumented integration queue
- There is no safe way to replay a failed transaction
Useful output
An integration map with business events, field ownership, identifiers, interface constraints, exception flows, and an evidence-based delivery estimate.
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