ERP process consulting.
Consulting that sees the process on the floor and builds it in the system.
We design your enterprise processes on ERP: costing, finance, production, procurement, sales, budgeting, HR and CRM. We listen to the process from your own team and build its working counterpart in the system, telling you upfront what a standard module solves and what genuinely needs development.
What this service covers
Process
- Business process consulting
- Digital transformation process consulting
Enterprise Resource Planning
- ERP process consulting
- ERP upgrade and migration
- ERP selection and feasibility
Operations
- Production and planning
- Procurement
- Sales and CRM
- Inventory and warehouse
Finance
- Cost accounting process consulting
- Budgeting and finance processes
Human resources
- HR process consulting
- Payroll consulting
What is ERP process consulting?
Most ERP projects fail because of process, not software. The system gets installed, training is delivered, and yet nobody does their daily work in it. The process that was configured is not the process that actually runs on the floor. We start with the process, not the software.
On the costing side the most common problem is this: the report produces a number, and nobody trusts it. The cause is rarely a single error. It is accumulated small configuration mistakes: the wrong cost centre, missing allocations, scrap and waste left out, exceptions added later that nobody remembers.
We treat production, procurement and sales as linked rings of one chain. If procurement does not raise the order on time, the production plan slips; if production slips, the delivery commitment sales made slips too. Consulting that looks module by module cannot see this chain.
In finance, budgeting and HR we make the data the system produces decision-ready: budget versus actual that is genuinely comparable, cash flow visibility, and personnel cost reflected correctly into production cost.
We tell you upfront what a standard module solves and what truly needs development. Unnecessary customisation is the most expensive line item in an ERP project, and once it exists it bills you again at every version upgrade.
Our experience on IFS projects
We have provided on-site consulting across more than 20 ERP projects, including IFS 10 and IFS Cloud. We have hands-on experience in every one of the costing, finance, CRM, procurement, production, sales, budgeting and HR modules.
At Verhex, this experience was earned directly in the field.
We work independently of sector. Process names and regulations differ by industry, but the logic of cost flow, planning discipline and the approval chain does not.
Who needs ERP process consulting?
- Organisations with an ERP in place whose critical processes still run in Excel
- Manufacturers who do not trust the number in their costing report
- Companies implementing a new ERP, upgrading a version, or switching systems
- Operations teams whose modules work in isolation, with no end-to-end flow
- Finance and operations leaders who want an independent second opinion
How does an ERP process project run?
- 01
Listening to the process on the floor
We learn the process from the person doing the work, not from a document. The written process and what actually happens are almost never the same, and you cannot configure anything before seeing that gap.
- 02
Gap analysis
We compare the current configuration against how the work really runs. The output is a table listing every gap with its cause and its cost to the business. Evidence, not opinion.
- 03
Process design and system counterpart
We design the target process and build its counterpart on the ERP. What a standard module can solve is separated from what needs development, and every item in the second group comes with its justification.
- 04
Go-live and handover
The process goes live and is handed over to the team that will use it. The goal is not dependence on us; it is a team that can run the process on its own.
What do you get at the end of the engagement?
- Gap table between the floor process and the system configuration
- Target process design and its counterpart on the ERP
- Standard module versus development split, with justification per item
- Costing and reporting verification checklist
- Handover documentation for the user team
Frequently asked questions about ERP consulting
- Are you an IFS partner?
- No. We have on-site consulting experience across IFS 10 and IFS Cloud projects, but we are not an IFS partner and we do not sell licences. That independence works in your favour: we can tell you what a standard module will cover and what needs development, with no pressure to sell a product.
- Which modules do you work in?
- Costing, finance, CRM, procurement, production, sales, budgeting and HR. We treat them as one connected flow rather than separate headings, because a configuration error in one module almost always surfaces as a report problem in another.
- Do you only work with IFS?
- The weight of our experience is on IFS. But the subject of the consulting is the process, not the product: the logic of cost flow, planning discipline and the approval chain does not change with the ERP product. If you run a different system, we scope it together in the first conversation.
- Can we get process consulting and software development together?
- Yes. Once the process is designed, the same team can carry out the required development, integrations and AI work. Having the people who designed the process sit at the same table as the people building the system removes the handover loss in between.
- How long does an engagement take?
- It depends on scope: reviewing one module's process is not the same as designing configuration across the organisation. Once the analysis has made the scope clear, we share the project schedule and its duration.
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