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?
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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