356- Bankrupted by ERP with Arick Helmlinger

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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An ERP business killer’s use-case … fun times not to miss Arick Helmlinger, IT Manager of Business Systems and Data at RIX Industries, shares his path from software developer to IT leadership and managing a challenging ERP implementation during COVID-19. From his early days at Radio Shack to becoming the first in-house developer at RIX Industries, Arick discusses how asking for leadership opportunities and trusting his instincts shaped his career growth. He offers candid insights about the realities of managing enterprise software rollouts and building effective teams. Listen now, discover: The challenges of implementing an ERP system How...

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0:00.0	Welcome back to today's episode of dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:06.0	I'm your host, Doug Keneen.
0:07.2	And today I'm talking with Eric Helbinger, IT manager of business systems and data at Ricks Industries.
0:13.6	Welcome to the show, Eric.
0:14.6	Hey, thanks for having me.
0:15.6	I really appreciate it.
0:16.6	Glad to be here.
0:17.6	So, Eric, you're coming to us from you're coming to us from, from California.
0:22.7	So you're a West Coast gay. Can you tell us a little bit about, well, let's start by Rick's
0:28.9	Industries and what you do there. Like what's, what's the story of there? Yeah. So Rick's Industries
0:34.1	is, God, what are they now?
0:42.3	The company themselves have been in business since 1878, so they'd been around the block a few times.
0:46.3	Sorry, I had to look at my little placard that said when the year was found.
0:48.0	I drew a blank there for a second.
0:52.1	But yeah, so they've been in business since 1878, making compressors.
0:56.8	They make compressors for pretty much any industrial area. So they make compressors from the size of a basketball all the way up to ones that need
1:05.2	to be taken out on semi-truck, on the flatbed of a semi-truck, and put assembled, say, on an aircraft carrier to lift planes on an aircraft carrier.
1:17.8	So we're in all facets of industrial industry, in all facets of industry for that.
1:28.3	You're not going to find us in Sears.
1:30.3	You're not going to find us in general places.
1:34.5	But, you know, if you're a company who needs a compressor for a specific need,
1:40.8	you're going to come to Ricks.
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