APTIM·Bridge · Independent ERP AdvisoryIndependent ERP advisory: bridge the gap, then run it yourself.
The independent ERP advisory inside the APTIM-Solutions family. Independent of every vendor. Accountable for the outcome, not the cutover plan. The exit is the deliverable.
Selecting and implementing a new business system represents a significant commitment and major financial investment — and a project that, done badly, can take the business with it. We sit beside the buyer, hold the systems integrator to the statement of work, and leave when you can run it yourselves.
The right system. Without surprises. Earning its business case after go-live.
Bridging clients from legacy operating models to systems that earn their business case — independent of the software, accountable for the outcome.
The right system. Implemented without surprises. Earning its business case after go-live. We will leave when you can run it yourselves.
Three phases. Three horizons. One methodology beneath.
The APTIM Three Horizons, tuned to ERP time. The category language stays standard — Select, Implement, Realise — and the APTIM verbs sit beneath so the family resemblance is visible.
Get the decision right.
- Business case · scoped to a defensible board-level number
- Process baseline · 'as is' and 'to be', boundaries agreed
- Vendor long-list · industry-fit, not relationship-fit
- Demo scripts · evidence not theatre
- Vendor short-list · scored against your business case
- Contract negotiation · price, scope, exits, liabilities
Hold the SI to the SoW.
- Programme governance · the right meetings, the right decisions
- Vendor management · sceptical, calibrated, on the client's side
- Design challenge · stop bad design choices before they're baked in
- Data readiness · the silent killer of every cutover
- Change & adoption design · so the system gets used after go-live
- Go-live assurance · evidence, not optimism
Earn the business case back.
- Value realisation · the case the board signed off, now delivered
- Adoption recovery · for the bits that didn't land
- Process maturity · raise the floor, not just the ceiling
- Second-wave automation · the brownfield wins everyone forgets
- Knowledge-transfer exit · we leave when you can run it yourselves
Independent in spirit. APTIM in posture.
The ERP market is full of consultants who quietly need the project to keep running. We are the opposite. Here is what that means, and what it means we will not do for you.
- An independent ERP advisory.
We do not sell, resell or implement vendor software. No margin, no kickback, no preferred-partner conflict.
- An input-management consultancy.
The same APTIM-Solutions posture — Input Management, Three Horizons, an explicit exit — applied to the ERP lifecycle.
- The client's side of the table.
Programme leadership, vendor management, value defence. We sit beside the buyer, never beside the vendor.
- A knowledge-transfer business.
Every deliverable is built to be handed over. The exit is the deliverable.
- A systems integrator.
We don't build to the SoW; we hold the SI to it.
- A reseller.
No vendor margin, no kickback, no preferred-partner conflict.
- A staff-aug shop.
We arrive with method and IP, not contractor badges.
- A traditional management consultancy.
We do not protect our own indispensability. We protect yours.
Trusted method. Transparent process. An explicit exit.
Independence is structural, not stated.
No reseller margin, no preferred-partner agreement, no vendor commission. The shortlist we recommend is defensible to your board because the evidence sits in front of them.
Accountability is to the business case.
Not to the cutover plan, not to the SoW, not to a workstream RAG. We carry the number the board signed off and we defend it through to value realisation.
The exit is the deliverable.
Every artefact is built to be handed over. Every meeting is run with a successor in the room. We leave when you can run it yourselves — and that is the point.
Considering ERP? Mid-flight on a programme that isn't landing?
A first conversation is free. No proposal, no decks — a working session to test whether an independent advisory is the right call for where you are.