ERP Steering & Advisory is a high-level strategic guidance service designed to ensure your ERP program stays aligned with business objectives, manages risk effectively, and delivers the intended transformation outcomes.

It provides executive-level oversight, decision support, and independent assurance across the entire ERP lifecycle—from strategy and vendor selection through implementation and post-go-live stabilisation.

This service acts as your “ERP conscience,” safeguarding value, guiding decisions, and ensuring the program remains controlled, predictable, and outcome-driven.

This service is ideal for organisations that:

• Need independent oversight during an ERP program
• Want executive steering guidance without relying solely on vendors or implementation partners
• Have complex multi-stream programs requiring strong decision governance
• Need help aligning business, IT, finance, and delivery partners
• Are concerned about scope creep, rising costs, or a lack of transparency
• Want a trusted advisor who acts as the voice of the business and protects ROI
• Require clarity before major milestones such as design sign-off, UAT, or go-live
• Want to avoid the common causes of ERP failure through structured governance

We act as your independent advisor and governance partner throughout the ERP journey. Typical activities include:

Strategic Guidance & Roadmap Alignment

• Validate business case, scope, and transformation roadmap
• Ensure decisions align with long-term business strategy

Governance & Steering Support

• Establish or refine steering committee structures
• Provide executive-level reporting and decision frameworks
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment and priority setting

Risk, Issue & Dependency Management

• Identify delivery risks early and recommend mitigation actions
• Monitor partner performance, quality, and adherence to methodology
• Prevent escalation of avoidable problems

Solution & Scope Advisory

• Validate key design decisions
• Assess customisation impact and long-term maintainability
• Review scope changes to ensure they add value

Vendor & Partner Advisory

• Provide independent assurance across delivery partners
• Support contract management, performance evaluation, and expectations

Change, Adoption & Operating Model Advisory

• Assess organisational readiness
• Guide change leadership, training strategy, and role clarity

Implementation Oversight

• Monitor progress across streams (design, data, testing, integrations, cutover)
• Confirm quality, completeness, and readiness before major gates

Post-Implementation Support

• Advise on stabilisation, optimisation, and benefits realisation

Our approach is independent, outcome-focused, and designed to protect your ERP investment.

With ERP Steering & Advisory, you gain:

• Stronger governance and clearer decision-making
• Reduced risk across design, delivery, data, and change
• Greater control over scope, cost, quality, and timeline
• Improved visibility into issues and program health
• Higher accountability from vendors and partners
• Better alignment across business and IT
• Higher confidence for executives and board stakeholders
• A greater chance of ERP success, with fewer surprises and less rework

This service ensures your ERP program remains controlled, aligned, and value-driven — delivering the business transformation it was meant to achieve.