Fit

Two very different starting points. One destination.

Companies find us from opposite ends of the spectrum: some are paying enterprise prices for software they barely touch, others have never had a system at all. The work we do for each looks different. What they end up with does not.

A path from an oversized ERP and a path from a pile of spreadsheets, meeting at one system the bit you use Big-name ERP paid in full, used in part Spreadsheets One system, sized to you
Different problems on the way in. The same set of books on the way out.
Path one

Replacing SAP, NetSuite or Dynamics NAV

Nobody buys a big ERP frivolously. At some point it was the sensible choice — or the auditors, a parent company or a very persuasive salesperson made it for you. Years later the picture is familiar: heavy licensing, slow change requests, and whole modules that exist because a multinational somewhere needed them once.

What switching involves:

  • We map your current transactions onto the modules that cover them — and name anything that doesn’t carry across, before you commit.
  • Historical data comes with you, opening balances included.
  • You run the old system until the new one has proven itself. No leap of faith on a go-live weekend.
  • Approval chains, report layouts and costing rules are rebuilt the way you actually use them — not the way the old vendor assumed you would.
Path two

First real system after Excel — or after nothing

A spreadsheet and a shoebox of invoices is how a great many good businesses run for years. It stops working quietly: a formula breaks and nobody notices, two people edit different copies, the one person who understands the file goes on leave.

What starting involves:

  • We set up only what earns its keep on day one — commonly quotations, invoicing and inventory.
  • Your spreadsheets become the opening data. The years of history in them aren’t thrown away.
  • Purchasing, payroll or project tracking can be switched on later, on the same database, without re-implementing anything.
  • Training assumes normal people, not accountants. If your team can manage a spreadsheet, they can manage this.

A fair match

Signs we’d work well together — and what you’ll get either way.

You’re probably a good candidate if:

  • Your work involves customers, vendors and internal teams passing things between them — quotes, approvals, deliveries, claims.
  • You can point at specific things that hurt: a report nobody trusts, a month-end that drags, an approval that keeps going missing.
  • You want a system for the next decade, not a quick patch for this quarter.
  • Somebody senior on your side will spend real time with us during setup. Systems shaped without the owner in the room fit nobody.

What our feasibility review gives you:

  • A written view on whether your situation fits — usually within two business days.
  • Indicative timeframes and cost ranges, so you can compare us with staying put or with the big vendors.
  • Plain language throughout. If a sentence sounds like a brochure, send it back and we’ll rewrite it.
  • If we’re not the answer, a pointer to whatever we think is. It costs us nothing to be useful on the way out.
Who we turn away. Businesses that need heavy manufacturing execution, global multi-entity consolidation across dozens of subsidiaries, or a vendor with an office on every continent are better served elsewhere — and we’ll say so in the first reply rather than the final invoice.

Where automation fits in all this

Software should absorb the tedious parts of coordination — matching documents, flagging a purchase order that doesn’t agree with its invoice, reading a supplier bill so nobody has to key it in. The system does those things, and we’ll happily show you where. What we won’t do is dress that up as a revolution. It’s bookkeeping, done by machines, checked by you.

Not sure which path you’re on? That’s fine.

Plenty of companies are somewhere in between — an ageing system here, a heroic spreadsheet there. Describe the mess as it is; we’ve seen worse.

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