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Understand the business
Interview the people who understand how the operation really works and what the ERP needs to enable.
Independent ERP selection support
Get clear on what your business needs before choosing an ERP.
I work directly with your team to understand how your business operates, capture what a new ERP needs to support, and prepare you to evaluate vendors against a consistent set of requirements.
A practical first conversation. No obligation.
Independent ERP Selection Consultant
Work directly with the person doing the analysis.
My name is Evert Hoff - you'll be working directly with me. I conduct the interviews, analyse what I learn, and structure the findings between sessions.
Why prepare first?
ERP vendors need to understand your business. But they shouldn't each discover it from scratch.
If you approach several ERP vendors without a clear requirements baseline, each vendor may conduct its own discovery. That can mean different questions, different assumptions and different interpretations of what your business needs.
I help you do the business analysis before or alongside early vendor evaluation, so the important knowledge in your organization is captured and you can give vendors a more consistent picture of the business they need to support.
The objective: Turn knowledge spread across people, processes and
workarounds into a structured baseline you can use to brief vendors, evaluate demonstrations and make
better-informed ERP decisions.
What we'll work through
From business knowledge to usable ERP requirements
The engagement is centered on understanding the business rather than starting with a generic list of ERP features.
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Capture processes
Identify important workflows, variations, exceptions, workarounds and dependencies.
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Identify requirements
Turn what we learn into clear business and system needs rather than leaving critical knowledge in people's heads.
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Clarify priorities
Separate critical needs from desirable capabilities and capture constraints that could affect the selection.
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Surface gaps
Expose missing information, assumptions and conflicting expectations while there is still time to resolve them.
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Prepare for vendors
Create a more consistent baseline for vendor conversations, demonstrations and subsequent evaluation.
A focused engagement
Seven private working sessions. One clear objective.
Capture enough of the right business knowledge to make your ERP conversations more useful and your vendor comparisons more consistent.
- Seven private 45-minute working sessions
- Preparation and analysis between sessions included
- Normally no more than one session per day, leaving time to analyze what we learn
- Progressive structuring of findings across the engagement
- Final review of findings, gaps and practical next steps
The exact people and topics depend on your business. The engagement is designed around the outcome, not a fixed questionnaire.
How it works
A simple path from first conversation to vendor-ready knowledge
STEP 01
Explore
We discuss your ERP situation, objectives and whether a focused discovery engagement is appropriate.
STEP 02
Interview
I speak privately with the people who hold important operational and system knowledge.
STEP 03
Analyze
Between sessions, I structure findings, identify gaps and determine what needs clarification next.
STEP 04
Review
We review what has been learned, remaining gaps and the practical next steps for your ERP selection.
Why private interviews?
Different people often see the same process differently.
Individual conversations make it easier to uncover exceptions, workarounds, concerns and disagreements that may not emerge in a group setting.
Where genuine differences need to be resolved, we identify them explicitly rather than silently averaging them away.
The goal isn't to make everyone give the same answer. It's to discover where the business
really agrees, where it doesn't, and what an ERP vendor needs to understand.
Is this the right kind of help?
Designed for ERP selection and replacement preparation
This is likely a good fit if…
- You're considering selecting or replacing an ERP system.
- Your important requirements aren't captured consistently yet.
- Different teams understand different parts of the operation.
- You want a clearer baseline before or during vendor conversations.
- You want independent business analysis rather than relying entirely on vendor-led discovery.
- You need focused help without starting a large consulting engagement.
What this engagement isn't
- It isn't ERP software sales or vendor representation.
- It isn't ERP configuration or implementation consulting.
- It isn't a promise to select an ERP in seven sessions.
- It isn't a generic feature checklist substituted for understanding your business.
If your situation needs a broader engagement, the initial call can help clarify that before you commit.
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Ready to talk?
Start with a free 30-minute exploration call
Tell me where you are in the ERP journey. We'll discuss what you need, whether business-analysis support would help, and what a sensible next step looks like.
ERP Requirements Discovery — $1,000
Seven private 45-minute working sessions.
Preparation and analysis between sessions included.
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