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Most ERP programmes that end in recovery could have been saved before they started, at the readiness stage, for a fraction of the eventual cost. An ERP readiness assessment is a short, independent exercise that answers one question honestly: is your organisation actually ready to take this on, and.
PEF Consulting Partners assesses ERP readiness honestly, because our leadership has delivered ERP at global scale for BP and recovered programmes that skipped this step. Take the free ERP Readiness Assessment for an immediate view of where you stand.
The single most reliable predictor of ERP outcomes and the most consistently underestimated. We look at the real state of the data you will have to migrate, not the assumed state, because that gap is where programmes fail.
Whether your processes are understood and documented well enough to be mapped to a new system, and whether the organisation is willing to standardise rather than rebuild its current ways of working in expensive configuration.
Whether the business can supply the people the programme will need, on top of running the day job. Insufficient business capacity is one of the most common reasons good programmes stall.
Whether the accountability for the programme sits with someone who can actually make decisions, and whether the governance will surface problems early rather than hide them.
A clear read on whether to proceed now, proceed with specific things fixed first, or wait. Where we say wait, we say exactly what needs to change and roughly what that involves. This is the cheapest insurance available on an ERP programme.
A readiness assessment run by the firm that hopes to implement the system has an obvious tension. An independent assessment can tell you the programme is not ready, which is sometimes the most valuable thing anyone will say to you all year.
Typically two to three weeks, which is why it is such cheap insurance relative to the programme it protects.
Then you have saved a great deal of money and disruption, and you have a clear list of what to fix. That is a good outcome, not a bad one.
We bring senior people who have delivered exactly this at scale. Honest advice, and accountability for the outcome.