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ERP consulting spend cut from over £130k to under £20k

An Oracle Cloud review produced 85 recommendations costed at more than £130k. A structured triage reduced them to four high-yield priorities costing under £20k.

85%+reduction in proposed ERP spend
Client
Global construction and consultancy group
Sector
Construction & professional services
Service
ERP Value Reset

The challenge

An Oracle Cloud ERP review by an implementation partner produced 85 recommendations spanning AP, AR, assets, cash management, expenses, GL, purchasing, projects and tax, costed at more than £130k. Leadership needed to know what was essential, what was valuable, and what could wait.

From long list to focused roadmap
  1. 85recommendations from the ERP review
  2. Triagein-flight, must-do or low-value
  3. 4high-yield priorities with owners

Our approach

  • Reviewed every recommendation against business need, risk and benefit.
  • Triaged each item as in-flight, must-do or low-value.
  • Mapped recommendations against initiatives already in flight, support routes and dependencies.
  • Consolidated overlapping items into four high-yield priorities with clear owners.
  • Re-scoped the partner engagement around those priorities only.
Proposed spend, before and after

Partner proposal

  • Long list of initiatives
  • Overlapping work
  • Costed at more than £130k
£130k+→<£20kconsulting spend

Focused roadmap

  • Four high-yield priorities
  • Clear owners and dependencies
  • Costed at under £20k

The outcome

  • Projected spend reduced from over £130k to under £20k
  • A focused ERP roadmap leadership could approve with confidence
  • Budget released for higher-value finance transformation work
  • One priority, an automated tax-authority supplier withholding-tax integration, delivered and live

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100%of the division's payments approved and released in the ERP

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From AP discovery to an automation platform, without a preferred product

Structured discovery of the invoice-to-pay process led to a seven-part improvement agenda, an options analysis and a weighted RFP that selected a specialist AP automation platform.

Global construction and consultancy group · Technology & Partner Selection£6Mrecovered to the P&L

£6M recovered from a goods-received-not-invoiced balance

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