Decide With Evidence. Not Assumptions.
Percipere’s ERP Selection & Readiness practice gives you an independent, vendor-neutral recommendation grounded in your own transaction and process data, not a workshop transcript, or a vendor pitch deck, and not a generic maturity score.
A Decision That Outlives the Person Who Makes It
An ERP decision is rarely revisited in the short term. It defines how the business is run — long after the sponsor who approved it has moved on to something else. Most organisations are still making this decision the old way: stakeholder workshops, vendor demonstrations, and a consultant’s opinion of what the room believes to be true. The problem is that, over time, processes get patched around, exceptions become norms and custom code gets written to solve temporary problems. Therefore, during selection, nobody has clear visibility into what the system actually does today. That’s why Percipere starts somewhere else entirely. Before we form an opinion, we go into the transaction data and let the system tell us what’s really happening.
Hard Evidence & Facts to Help You Choose Better
Independent ERP Platform Selection
If you are facing a retain, re-contract, or replace decision like a carve-out, a business separation, a contract renewal, or a fully platform-agnostic RFP, we deliver:
Technical & Process Discovery : A full map of your current-state landscape including integrations, master data, and functional requirements by process area.
Options Evaluation Framework: A weighted, criteria-based fit-gap assessment run against every credible platform, including a right-sized re-price of the incumbent.
TCO & Business Case : Five-year total cost of ownership modelling, with sensitivities, benchmarked against the cost of doing nothing.
Recommendation & Roadmap: A platform recommendation you can defend, with an implementation roadmap, partner landscape, and risk register attached.
ERP Readiness & Business Case
If you already know the direction of travel but need the case built to defend it, we deliver:
Comprehensive ERP Health Check: An assessment of your current landscape that surfaces gaps, inefficiencies, and quick-win opportunities.
Value & Risk Insight: A clear-eyed view of ROI, cost, and hidden risk before you commit a budget line.
Tailored Transformation Roadmap : Platform adoption sequenced against your business goals, phase by phase.
Change Readiness & Value Realisation: Structured change management that gets your organisation aligned and banks early wins.
Why Business Leaders Trust Percipere with ERP Assessment
Percipere Promise: An Independent ERP Selection Methodology
Our engagements follow a structured four-phase model, typically delivered in 6–8 weeks:
| Phase | Focus | What You Get |
|---|---|---|
| Phase 1: Technical Discovery | Current-state architecture, integrations, master data, functional and regulatory requirements | Current-state assessment baseline |
| Phase 2: Options Evaluation | Weighted evaluation framework, fit-gap analysis, vendor pricing including incumbent re-price | Scored shortlist with fit-gap detail |
| Phase 3: TCO & Business Case | Five-year TCO model per option, with sensitivities | A working TCO model |
| Phase 4: Recommendation & Roadmap | Single recommendation, target architecture, implementation roadmap, top delivery risks | Final report and executive presentation |
Powered by Proven Accelerators, Not Guesswork
We run every assessment through two complementary lenses. First, how your business actually works today. Second, what the platform can do for your business.
FUTUROOT Pulse — The Process Lens
It is a magnifying glass on how your business actually uses the ERP right now. By analysing live process execution data, it points the evaluation at the process areas that matter most, based on what’s actually happening.
PerciXpert — The Platform Knowledge Lens
An AI-powered knowledge base that turns your process, integration, and data documentation into a structured evaluation accelerator. It maps your requirements against real scope, fit-gap, and configuration evidence across every shortlisted platform.
Together, they produce a single, defensible recommendation grounded in fact and hard evidence.
With Us, Every Credible Platform Gets a Fair Hearing
Our assessments are built to be truly platform-agnostic. Depending on your requirements, we evaluate:
SAP S/4HANA Cloud (Public Edition, Private Edition, RISE with SAP).
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance + Supply Chain Management
Oracle NetSuite
Epicor Kinetic
QAD
Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Acumatica
A right-sized, re-negotiated incumbent contract
Why Evidence-Based Selection Wins
Our engagements follow a structured four-phase model, typically delivered in 6–8 weeks:
| Parameter | Traditional ERP Selection | Percipere’s Evidence-Based Selection |
|---|---|---|
| Basis for Recommendation | Stakeholder workshops, vendor demos, and consultant judgement | 100% of transaction and process data, mined directly from the live ERP |
| Vendor Neutrality | Often delivered by the incumbent systems integrator, who has a stake in the outcome | A structurally independent advisory team that declares the vendor relationships and implementation intent upfront |
| Time to Insight | 12–16 weeks typical for a full options evaluation | 6–8 weeks, accelerated by FUTUROOT Pulse and PerciXpert |
| Confidence Level | A defensible opinion, built on interviews and sampling | A board-ready, scored evaluation framework with a documented rationale |
| TCO Transparency | A high-level licence comparison that often misses implementation and validation cost | A five-year TCO model with sensitivities across licensing, implementation, integration, and internal effort |
Real-Life Success Stories Written with Evidence-Based Decisions
Three organisations. Different starting points. The same result: complete visibility, accurate data, and operations that finally connect.
leading European HVAC manufacturer
Groupe Atlantic
Helping Groupe Atlantic Avoid Millions in Misallocated Migration Spend
Facing a multi-million-euro ERP renewal decision on a 25-year-old core platform, Groupe Atlantic needed forensic clarity on what to keep, redesign, or retire before committing. Percipere analysed 100% of transaction data across 24 months of Finance, Procure-to-Pay, and Order-to-Cash activity, finding 90% of 2,000+ custom objects inactive and out of scope. We delivered the assessment in 8 weeks versus the typical 12–16 weeks for this scope.
PE-BACKED RENEWABLE ENERGY PLATFORM
Renewable Power Capital
Independently Verifying Implementation Quality Before Cutover For RPC
Following a large-scale ERP migration led by a third-party integrator, RPC needed an independent, evidence-based view of implementation quality before cutover. Percipere delivered 100% transaction coverage versus the ~2% typical of manual sampling, identifying a segregation-of-duties control gap running at 12x the industry benchmark.
BSI’s Finance
British Standards Institution
A Fixed-Price, Nine-Week Business Case for the British Standards Institution
BSI’s Finance function ran on a 20-year-old core ERP instance shaped by regional process nuances no documentation fully captured. Percipere’s structured ‘As-Is deep dive’ and ‘To-Be’ best-practice fit assessment across five business functions delivered a defensible, evidence-based migration business case in a fixed-price, 9-week engagement.
LEADING Pharmaceutical company
Lupin Limited
A Standardisation Roadmap for Lupin, Grounded in Evidence
Lupin’s leadership needed an objective answer: were procurement processes running as designed across a fragmented, multi-geography landscape, or had exceptions become normalised practice? Percipere, powered by FUTUROOT, ingested 100% of transaction data across 40,000+ transactions and 11 distinct procurement process types, surfacing a critical-risk process running at 25% conformance.
The Percipere Advantage
Your Next ERP Decision Deserves Better Than a Best Guess
Talk to an ERP Selection & Readiness advisor. No obligation, vendor slant, or sales script. Just a straight answer about whether we can help!
FAQs
What is ERP Selection & Readiness?
ERP Selection & Readiness is Percipere’s independent assessment practice for organisations deciding whether to retain, re-contract, or replace their ERP platform. It combines structured technical discovery, weighted options evaluation, five-year TCO modelling, and a single defensible recommendation, all delivered by a team that is structurally separate from implementation delivery.
How is Percipere’s approach different from a typical ERP selection project?
Most ERP selection projects are built on stakeholder workshops, vendor demos, and consultant judgement. Percipere mines 100% of your transaction and process data directly from the live ERP using FUTUROOT Pulse, then layers deep scoping via PerciXpert where relevant — producing a factual, evidence-based baseline rather than an opinion built on sampling and interviews.
Which ERP platforms do you evaluate?
Our assessments are platform-agnostic. Depending on your requirements, we evaluate SAP S/4HANA Cloud (Public, Private, and RISE), Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance + SCM, Oracle NetSuite, Epicor Kinetic, QAD, Infor CloudSuite Industrial, Acumatica, and a right-sized re-price of your incumbent platform.
How long does an ERP selection assessment take?
Most engagements complete in 6–8 weeks across four phases: Technical Discovery, Options Evaluation, TCO & Business Case, and Recommendation & Roadmap. Timeline depends on data availability, stakeholder access, and the number of platforms in scope.
We’re outgrowing QuickBooks or Xero — is NetSuite the obvious next step?
Often, yes, especially once multi-entity operations, subscription billing, or reporting beyond what a spreadsheet can hold enter the picture. Our fit assessment will confirm whether NetSuite, or something else entirely, actually matches your growth trajectory.
We’re fairly sure we know which platform we want. Can Percipere still help?
Yes. Our Readiness & Business Case track is built for organisations that already have a direction but need a defensible business case, a risk-adjusted roadmap, and change-readiness planning to support the decision.
Is the recommendation really vendor-neutral?
Yes. Percipere’s assessment teams report through our Advisory practice, organisationally and financially separate from implementation, with no compensation tied to implementation revenue. We declare all vendor relationships upfront and accept that participation in an assessment may preclude us from the subsequent implementation, at the client’s discretion.
What happens after we receive the recommendation?
You receive a full recommendation report, an executive presentation, a target architecture, and an implementation roadmap with partner landscape and top delivery risks. From there, you’re free to run procurement independently or engage Percipere (or another partner) for delivery.
Can Percipere help with regulated or multi-entity manufacturing environments?
Yes. Our teams have delivered process and controls assessments inside FDA- and ISO 13485-adjacent regulated manufacturing environments, and across multi-country, multi-entity operations spanning finance, procurement, and shop-floor process areas.
Insights & Thought Leadership
Driving Process Optimisation Ahead of SAP S/4HANA Migration
A diversified global agribusiness partnered with Percipere and FUTUROOT to optimise pre-migration processes and prepare for a critical SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA® transformation within 12 months.
Transforming Financial Reporting and Operational Efficiency with SAP
A leading media and entertainment company partnered with Percipere to modernise financial systems and reporting, implementing a bespoke SAP S/4HANA® hybrid cloud solution to streamline operations and improve efficiency across divisions.
Streamlining Internal Processes with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
Over 450 veterinary practices partnered with Percipere to modernise finance operations using SAP S/4HANA® Private Cloud, reducing audit costs, streamlining processes, and enabling teams to focus on patient care and practice growth.
Let us guide you on your digital transformation journey!