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How we work

Four stages, in this order, every time.

The shape of an engagement does not change with the size of the deal. The assessment comes first because a decision made without a number is a guess, and the last stage does not end at go-live because that is when the system finally has to work.

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Assessment first

You get a costed business case before you commit to a build.

Signed before built

Nothing is configured until the design is agreed by both sides.

Still there after

The team that built it runs it through the first period close and beyond.

Why the order matters

Most programmes fail at the seams, not in the middle.

Very few SAP projects go wrong because somebody could not configure a module. They go wrong where one stage hands over to the next: a decision made before it was measured, a scope that was never signed, a cutover nobody rehearsed, a go-live where the build team walked away.

A gate at the end of every stage

Nothing moves forward until the previous stage is signed. It sounds bureaucratic and it is the single biggest reason a date holds.

No handover between firms

Advisory, build, integration and support sit with one team, so there is nobody to point at when something falls between two contracts.

The difficult thing is said early

If the timeline will not hold or the template is wrong, you hear it at the point it is still cheap to act on.

A decision made without a number is a guess wearing a business case.

Why the assessment always comes first

The four stages

What actually happens, and what it costs you.

Every stage below carries a price as well as a benefit. A method that only lists benefits is a brochure, and you would be right not to believe it.

1

Assess

Two to six weeks

We measure the landscape rather than describe it. Data volume table by table, custom code footprint, interface count, add-on compatibility and your current licence position. Then we build the options against those numbers and cost each one over five years.

What you get

  • A measured picture of what you are actually running
  • Two or three realistic options, each with a cost and a timeline
  • A recommendation with the reasoning attached, and the runner-up argued fairly

What it costs you

You may not like the answer. Sometimes the assessment says do less than you were about to, or wait a year, and we will say so even though the larger programme is the larger fee.

2

Design

Three to eight weeks

Target architecture, scope, integration map and the migration approach, signed by both sides before anything is configured. Data reduction is planned here rather than bolted on later, because it changes the size of every stage that follows.

What you get

  • A signed design that both sides can be held to
  • The scope written down clearly enough to defend when it is challenged
  • A downtime estimate based on the volume you will actually move

What it costs you

Design takes longer than most partners quote, and it is the stage clients most often want to compress. We will push back, because every week saved here reappears as three weeks of rework later.

3

Implement

The bulk of the programme

Build, migrate, test, rehearse and go live. Senior consultants sit on the parts of the project where things actually go wrong: the cutover, the reconciliations, the integrations under load, the reports finance will open on day one.

What you get

  • Configuration and development against the signed design
  • At least one full dress rehearsal of the cutover at production volume
  • Role-based training before go-live, not during it

What it costs you

We staff fewer programmes at once than a larger partner would. That limits how quickly we can start, and it is the direct consequence of the promise that the people you met are the people who build.

4

Support & optimise

Ongoing

Go-live is a milestone, not an exit. Legacy systems get decommissioned once their data is preserved, duplicate licensing is retired, and the landscape is run so that it costs less to operate each year rather than more.

What you get

  • Extended-hours support from people who know your build
  • Legacy systems retired and the second licence stopped
  • A quarterly review naming what to remove, automate or upgrade next

What it costs you

We are not a 24 by 7 operations centre. If you need round-the-clock follow-the-sun staffing, we will tell you at the first conversation rather than at contract.

Getting started

The first three steps take about a month.

Nothing here commits you to a programme. The point is to reach a decision you can defend, and then decide separately who builds it.

  1. 1

    A short call

    Thirty minutes on what you are running, what is driving the timing, and who else needs to be in the room.

  2. 2

    A scoped assessment

    Fixed price, fixed duration, with the deliverables named in writing before it starts.

  3. 3

    The findings

    Presented to you and your board, with the options costed and the recommendation argued rather than asserted.

  4. 4

    Your decision

    Proceed, wait, or take the findings to another partner. All three are legitimate outcomes and we price the assessment accordingly.

  5. 5

    Design, if it proceeds

    Only then do we scope a build, against a target you have already agreed and a number you have already seen.

How we staff it

Fewer programmes, further in.

  • The people you meet before you sign are named in the proposal.
  • Those same people are on the build, not a substituted team.
  • A named lead stays with the account from assessment through to support.
  • Senior consultants sit on the cutover, the reconciliations and the integrations.
  • Handovers between our own stages are internal, so nothing is relearned.

What this method does not do

It does not make an SAP programme fast. Gates, signed designs and rehearsed cutovers add weeks at the front and remove months at the back, which is a trade we will defend but not disguise.

It also does not suit every buyer. If you want a partner who will accept a date before the scope exists, we are the wrong firm, and you will find one who will.

Start with the assessment.

It is short, it is costed, and it ends with a recommendation you can take anywhere. That is the whole first step.

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