Independent evaluation of ERP and enterprise systems, run on your requirements rather than a vendor’s feature checklist.
By the time an implementation begins, the outcome is largely determined. The platform is chosen, the budget is set, and the scope is written. Most companies reach that point on the strength of three vendor demos and a feature comparison spreadsheet.
You are watching a rehearsed path through clean data. It tells you almost nothing about how the system handles your exceptions.
Nine hundred requirements, all scored equally, and the twelve that actually matter get the same weight as the ones nobody uses.
Many advisors are compensated by the vendors they recommend. You rarely see the arrangement, and it is rarely disclosed.
The single biggest driver of cost overrun is discovered in month four, not during selection, when it could still change the decision.
It is the right question to ask, and you should ask it of every advisor you talk to. Our answer is structural rather than a promise about our character.
Selection work covers the systems that run your business, whoever builds them. The platforms we implement ourselves are marked — everything else we assess on the same scorecard and hand off to someone else to deliver.
Requirements first. Vendors last.
A selection runs six to ten weeks depending on scale. Vendors do not appear until stage three, because a demo you have not written the script for is a demo the vendor controls.
How the operation actually runs, what breaks, and what has to be true for the new system to be worth buying. Weighted requirements, not a flat checklist.
The state of your master data, integration surface, and team capacity — assessed while it can still change the decision rather than after contracts are signed.
Long list scored against your weighted requirements, narrowed to three or four genuine candidates with a documented reason for every exclusion.
Vendors demonstrate your scenarios with your data, on a script we write with you. Same script for every vendor, scored live by your team.
License, implementation, integration, and five-year run cost modelled side by side. We support the negotiation.
A defensible recommendation, a business case your board can approve, and a phased implementation plan — whoever ends up delivering it.
Your processes and priorities, scored and agreed — the artifact the whole decision rests on.
Every candidate against the same criteria, with raw responses and the reasoning behind each exclusion.
Five-year cost across license, implementation, integration, and internal effort.
The numbers and the narrative, in the format your board approves capital in.
What will go wrong, how likely it is, and what to fix before the project starts.
Sequence, dependencies, and resourcing — usable by any implementation partner.
Not every advisory engagement starts before a decision. We are often brought into implementations that have overrun, stalled, or gone live badly — to give the board an independent read on whether to fix, replatform, or restart.
That assessment is deliberately uncomfortable to commission and usually cheaper than the alternative. We will tell you if the incumbent partner should keep the work.
Whether you are early and scoping, mid-RFP and unsure, or looking at a program that is not going well — the first conversation is thirty minutes and costs nothing.
We will be in touch within one business day.