Enterprise ERP implementation
ERP that actually goes live.
Enterprise systems fail on people and process, not software. We handle both — so your ERP is running, adopted, and paying for itself.
24
implementations delivered
1,400+
users trained and live
6
industries served
4.5 mo
average time to go-live
Why ERP projects fail
It is rarely the software.
Scope that grows quietly, data nobody cleaned, a process no one mapped, and users told three weeks before go-live. Four failures, in the order a project usually meets them.
Every phase of our method exists to close one of these.
Months 2–7
Scope that grows quietly
Ten changes, each reasonable on its own, none of them priced. We price and schedule every change in writing before it is approved.
Discovered at go-live
Data nobody cleaned
Everyone assumes the ledger is fine because nobody has opened it. We audit master data in week one and rehearse migration repeatedly.
Week 1 onward
Processes never mapped
The workshop describes how the process should run; the floor runs something else. We document what actually happens before configuring anything.
Three weeks before go-live
Users told too late
Most staff first see the system the week it replaces their job. We start training and super-users during build, not after.
How we deliver
Five phases. No surprises in month seven.
ERP projects rarely fail on software. They fail on scope that grows quietly, data nobody cleaned, a process no one mapped, and users who heard about the change three weeks before go-live. Our method exists to close those four gaps in order.
Open a phase to see what happens in it and what you get at the end.
Two to four weeks on site with the people who do the work. We document every process that will touch the new system, find the spreadsheets holding your operation together, and audit the state of your master data. You get a current-state map and a written scope you can hold us to.
What you get
Current-state process map
Data quality audit
Scoped requirements register
Indicative budget and timeline
Go-live day is not the finish line. The first month-end close is.
Why our consultants stay on the floor after the system is switched on — the phase most partners bill for and skip.
Platforms
The right platform is a question about your processes, not your headcount.
Two businesses the same size can need completely different systems. A distributor running six branches and a consultancy billing time have almost nothing in common. So we describe each platform by the operating conditions that suit it — and the ones that should send you elsewhere.
Industries
The ERP is the same. What breaks is industry-specific.
A manufacturer fails on costing. A distributor fails on stock accuracy. An NGO fails on donor reporting. We configure around the failure mode that belongs to your industry, because that is where these projects are actually won.
Straight answers
The questions every buyer asks in the first call.
For a single-entity mid-market business on Zoho, Odoo or Business Central, three to six months from kickoff to go-live. Multi-entity or multi-country rollouts on SAP or Finance & Operations run nine to eighteen months, and we phase them so the first entity goes live early. Anyone quoting six weeks for an enterprise ERP is quoting for a demo, not an implementation.
Implementation typically runs between one and two times your first-year licence cost, depending on how many processes are in scope and how bad the data is. We give you a five-year total cost model during selection — licences, infrastructure, implementation and the internal staff time nobody budgets for — so the board sees the real number before signing.
Yes, and it is common. We pick up implementations that were sold by a reseller with no delivery capacity, or that stalled after an internal lead left. We start with a short assessment of what is configured, what is scoped and what is salvageable, then give you a written plan to finish.
First we find out why it actually failed, which is rarely the reason stated. It is usually scope drift, unmapped processes, dirty data, or users who were never brought along. Our Rescue engagement is a fixed two to three week assessment producing an honest recommendation — including telling you when the right answer is to stop and re-select.
We deliver on Microsoft, SAP, Odoo, Sage and Zoho, so we have no commercial reason to favour one. During selection we score against your requirements and tell you plainly when a cheaper platform will do the job — and when it will not.
We stay through the first month-end close, which is the moment problems surface. After that you move onto a support agreement with response times in writing, and a quarterly review that catches the processes people have quietly worked around.
That is the intent. We build a super-user in each department during implementation and hand over documentation written for your processes, not the vendor manual. Clients who keep us on support do it for upgrades and new modules, not because they are stuck.
Next step
Talk to someone who has done this before.
Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. Tell us where you are — mid-selection, mid-project, or recovering from one that stalled — and we will tell you what we would do.