Capabilities
The ERP platform you choose shapes the next decade of how your organisation works, and the selection is usually run at exactly the moment you know least about what you actually need. We run independent ERP selection: requirements led, vendor neutral, and structured so that the business case you.
PEF Consulting Partners runs ERP vendor selection with no reseller interest in the outcome: we sell no software or licences. Our leadership has owned a global ERP and Microsoft Dynamics 365 estate worth over two hundred million pounds, so the selection is shaped by what delivery actually takes.
We take no licence commissions and have no partnership with any vendor or integrator. The recommendation is the whole of our interest.
Not a wish list assembled in workshops, but a prioritised set of requirements grounded in how the business genuinely operates and where it needs to change. Distinguishing the few processes that are a real source of advantage from the many that should simply adopt standard practice.
An honest options appraisal across the credible platforms for your situation, which may include SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Workday, NetSuite, IFS or Unit4, scored against your requirements rather than against a feature grid the vendor supplied. Structured demonstrations that test the platform against your scenarios, not the vendor’s showreel.
Licence, implementation, integration and the ongoing cost of ownership over five years, because that is where ERP business cases most often come apart. The cheapest first year is frequently the most expensive decade.
Built so that finance believes it and the board can hold someone to it, with the benefits defined, owned and measurable rather than asserted.
Much ERP selection advice comes from firms that implement one platform or resell several. Even with the best intentions, that shapes the recommendation. An adviser with no platform to sell and no commission to earn is free to tell you the honest answer, including that a cheaper or smaller solution is the right one.
For most organisations, eight to sixteen weeks from requirements to a recommended platform and business case, depending on complexity and how decisive the organisation is.
We can support delivery as an independent client side adviser. We earn nothing from whichever system you choose, which is what keeps the selection honest. See ERP implementation consulting.
ERP readiness assessment, what an ERP implementation costs, or get in touch.
We run selections across the whole field, with no partnership behind any of them: Microsoft Dynamics 365 including Finance and Operations and Business Central, SAP and S/4HANA, Oracle and Fusion, NetSuite, Sage, Intacct and X3, plus IFS, Unit4, Epicor, Infor, Workday, Acumatica and the wider market, and for utilities the billing platforms including Kraken, covered by our Kraken practice. The right answer depends on your operating model, not the demo.
We bring senior people who have delivered exactly this at scale. Honest advice, and accountability for the outcome.