ERP Replacement Decision Assessment

Understand what your ERP is holding back, and decide if and when to replace it

Wayferry’s standalone, fixed-fee assessment identifies which strategic objectives and business goals your current ERP constrains, examines alternatives to replacement, and estimates the five-year value of removing those constraints. You receive an ERP Replacement Decision Brief recommending if and when to replace, supported by documented evidence, assumptions, and practical next steps.

When This Assessment Is Useful

This assessment helps mid-market companies determine whether their current ERP can support their strategy and business goals. It is particularly useful when:

• Growth, expansion, or acquisitions are stretching the current system.

• Manual work, spreadsheets, or reporting issues slow operations and management decisions.

• ERP support is ending, but the business case for replacement remains unclear.

• Leaders disagree about whether to improve the current environment, replace it, or wait.

Your Decision Brief and Four Possible Outcomes

Your ERP Replacement Decision Brief documents:

• The business goals your current ERP constrains and alternatives to replacement.

• The potential five-year value of removing those constraints, with supporting evidence, assumptions, and uncertainties.

• The costs, risks, prerequisites, and practical next steps.

Your team supplies and validates the financial and operational estimates. Wayferry analyzes the information and recommends one of four paths:

A Structured Assessment, an Independent Recommendation

Wayferry is paid by its clients and receives no software-vendor commissions. We assess replacement alongside improvements to your current environment, grounding our recommendation in business evidence and financial reasoning.

• Before the meeting: Share your strategic objectives, business goals, examples of ERP constraints, and available financial and operational information. We agree on what is needed; you do not need a completed business case.

• During the meeting: In approximately 90 minutes, we guide your CEO and CFO through questions grouped by topic, each with a documented purpose. Answers often cover several questions at once, allowing discussion of strategy, business goals, ERP constraints, and replacement timing. Other executives may participate where useful.

• After the meeting: We analyze the information, clarify gaps, and validate estimates with your team. We typically deliver your ERP Replacement Decision Brief about two weeks after the meeting.

The assessment’s value is helping you make a sound decision, whether or not a replacement project follows.

Investment

The assessment is a standalone, fixed-fee engagement based on your company’s annual revenue. Your proposal documents the scope and fee. Work begins after you sign the proposal and we receive payment.

You are purchasing the assessment and its Decision Brief, with no obligation to engage Wayferry further. The assessment also lets your leadership team experience our approach and judgment before considering a larger engagement.

If replacement is justified and you choose to continue with Wayferry, ERP evaluation and selection require a separately authorized engagement. Your proposal specifies any assessment-fee credit toward a subsequent ERP selection engagement, including its eligibility conditions and timing.

Discuss Your ERP Replacement Decision

Tell us what your ERP may be holding back. We’ll discuss whether the assessment fits your situation and explain the scope and fixed fee.

Submitting this form does not commit you to an assessment.