ERP Replacement Decision Assessment

Connect your ERP decision to your strategy, business goals, and potential value

Whether you are considering ERP replacement or have already decided to proceed, start with a clear business foundation.

Wayferry’s standalone, fixed-fee assessment connects your strategic objectives and business goals to your current ERP constraints. Together, we examine your options, estimate the potential five-year value of addressing those constraints, and establish practical next steps.

You receive an ERP Replacement Decision Brief and experience how Wayferry works before deciding whether to commission a larger engagement.

Standalone. Fixed fee. No obligation to engage Wayferry for further work.

Where does your decision stand?

Still deciding whether to replace your ERP?

Establish whether replacement is justified and when to proceed.

We examine how your current ERP constrains your ability to achieve your strategic objectives and business goals. We assess whether improvements to your current environment could adequately address those constraints and whether the potential value of replacement justifies its cost, disruption, and risk.

Already decided to replace your ERP?

Establish what the replacement must achieve to support your strategic objectives and business goals, why those outcomes matter, and how you will measure success.

We review and build on any existing business case, examining assumptions, potential five-year value, initial scope, and readiness. The findings connect your business goals to the priorities that guide subsequent process analysis, requirements, and software selection.

This assessment is the first stage of every Wayferry ERP selection engagement.

What your Decision Brief contains

• Strategic objectives and business goals. The outcomes your ERP must help the business achieve.

• Current constraints and alternatives. What constraints are holding you back and whether improvements to the existing environment could adequately address them.

• Potential five-year value. Estimated benefits, supporting assumptions, uncertainties, and the consequences of delaying action.

• Initial scope and success measures. The business areas, priorities, and measurable outcomes that should guide the project.

• Costs, risks, and prerequisites. Factors affecting whether and when to proceed.

• A recommendation and practical next steps. A documented path your leadership team can act on.

Your team supplies and validates the financial and operational estimates. Wayferry structures the analysis, makes assumptions explicit, and distinguishes improvements ERP could enable from benefits that depend on other business initiatives.

Four possible recommendations

Wayferry analyzes the information and recommends one of four paths:

Even when replacement has already been approved, we examine the evidence and explain any findings that warrant reconsidering the direction or timing.

How the assessment works

Before the executive meeting

Share your strategic objectives, business goals, examples of ERP constraints, and available financial and operational information. Include any existing business case.

We agree on the information needed and your team’s participation before the engagement begins. You do not need to arrive with a completed analysis.

During the executive meeting

In approximately 90 minutes, we guide your CEO and CFO through a structured discussion of goals, constraints, potential value, and 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 Decision Brief about two weeks after the meeting.

Start with a focused engagement

The assessment provides a useful deliverable in its own right. It also gives your leadership team firsthand experience of our questions, analysis, and working approach.

You can assess how we work with your team before committing to a full selection engagement. Once you receive your Decision Brief, you decide whether to continue.

The assessment’s value remains yours whether or not you commission further work.

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.

If you choose to continue, the assessment’s findings inform a separate ERP evaluation and selection proposal. The selection fee reflects the agreed scope, complexity, and potential business value of your initiative.

You approve that scope and fixed fee before authorizing selection. Your proposal specifies any assessment-fee credit toward selection, including eligibility conditions and timing.

If you continue into ERP selection

Your assessment findings carry directly into selection. We build on the completed work rather than repeat it.

During selection, our proprietary Wayferry Navigator handles much of the requirements, evaluation, and documentation work, substantially reducing demands on your employees. Approximately 85% of requirements are already prioritized as a starting point, with your team reviewing and adjusting priorities to reflect your business.

Your people can concentrate on contributing business knowledge, resolving business-specific needs, evaluating capabilities, and making decisions.

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Independent advice, paid for by you

Wayferry is paid only by its clients. We receive no commissions or payments from software vendors or implementation partners.

We assess improvements to your existing environment alongside replacement and recommend the path supported by the business evidence.

Discuss your ERP plans

Tell us what your current ERP is holding back, or what you need its replacement to achieve.

We will discuss your situation, explain the assessment, and outline the scope and fixed fee.

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