Technology Advisory: Choosing an ERP for a Growing Business

Client background: a mid-sized manufacturing company experiencing rapid growth was struggling with outdated systems that could not keep up with demand. Reporting was manual, planning was fragmented, and every new customer added friction.

The challenge was not a shortage of ERP options. It was the absence of a decision framework grounded in how the business actually runs.

We mapped core processes end to end, separated genuine requirements from habits inherited from old tooling, and built an evaluation model weighted to the outcomes leadership cared about most: order-to-cash speed, planning accuracy, and total cost over five years.

We then ran a structured evaluation with shortlisted vendors, scripted to the client's own scenarios rather than a generic demo, and pressure-tested implementation assumptions before any contract was signed.

The result was a platform decision the leadership team could defend, a realistic phasing plan, and a clear view of the internal capability needed to make the program succeed.