The go-live date is celebrated. The project team has been working toward it for months, sometimes years. The vendor is present. The steering committee is satisfied. The system is live.
And then, quietly, things start to go wrong.
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Why Most ETRM Implementations Fail in the First 90 Days
The system does not crash. The business quietly works around it. Why the first 90 days decide an implementation's fate and what the firms that get it right do differently.
By Anish Pujari · Not a journalist. Someone who was actually in the room.
Aug 27, 2026· 7 min read
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Anish Pujari
Anish has spent 12+ years inside commodity trading floors delivering ETRM and trading systems, from front-office deal capture to the post-go-live months where implementations are won or lost. He writes The Trading Narrative for the practitioners who run those desks: traders, delivery leads, and the professionals in between.
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