ERP Evaluation and Selection
Select an ERP that supports your strategy and business goals
Your replacement ERP must support what your business needs to accomplish. That means understanding your processes, defining clear requirements, and investigating how well competing systems meet them before you buy.
Wayferry guides your team through that work, providing the structure and evidence for an informed decision. Our proprietary Wayferry Navigator handles much of the project work, helping us deliver a thorough evaluation while substantially reducing the demands on your employees.
Fixed fee. Independent advice. No vendor commissions.
Begin with a clear business foundation
Every Wayferry selection engagement starts with our ERP Replacement Decision Assessment.
If you have already decided to replace your ERP, the assessment establishes what the project must achieve, how those outcomes support your strategic objectives, and their potential five-year value. We review and build on any existing business case.
You receive a Decision Brief documenting the findings, initial scope, priorities, assumptions, and practical next steps. These become the foundation for selection.
The assessment is a separate, paid engagement. It also gives your leadership team firsthand experience of our analysis and working approach before deciding whether to continue. You are not obligated to authorize a selection project.
Explore the ERP Replacement Decision Assessment
Turn business goals into a defensible selection
Understand what your processes must accomplish
We examine the processes needed to achieve your goals, including their inputs, outputs, handoffs, controls, and exceptions.
Together, we distinguish processes suitable for standardization from those that give your business a competitive advantage. This helps you judge where a new ERP’s standard approach is appropriate and where distinctive capabilities deserve protection.
Define and prioritize requirements
Your process owners review requirements drawn from our extensive reusable library, tailored to your business.
Approximately 85% of the Wayferry Navigator Library requirements are already prioritized, saving your team substantial time. Your team reviews and adjusts priorities as needed, focusing effort on business-specific needs, exceptions, and the capabilities that matter most to your goals.
We specify what the software must accomplish and what implementation must deliver, including data migration, integrations, training, and cutover. The resulting priorities guide product comparisons and demonstrations, keeping the evaluation focused on what matters to your business.
Compare products and implementation partners
We evaluate candidates against your prioritized requirements and investigate both how well they meet your needs and how they would deliver the capabilities.
Standard functionality, configuration, optional modules, third-party products, and customization can create different costs and delivery risks. We make those differences visible so you can assess the trade-offs.
Test vendor claims through structured demonstrations
Finalists follow an approved demonstration script based on your priorities and business scenarios.
Your team evaluates relevant capabilities and exceptions. We document findings, gaps, unresolved questions, and vendor commitments so the comparison rests on evidence you can examine.
Challenge the preferred choice
Before you commit, we investigate important uncertainties through due diligence, clarification, and reference checks.
The purpose is to uncover reasons the preferred option might fall short while you still have the opportunity to investigate alternatives and resolve significant gaps.
A thorough evaluation with less work for your team
ERP selection requires input from people who already have a business to run. The Wayferry Navigator substantially reduces the preparation, administration, and documentation they must undertake.
Its reusable requirements library, structured demonstration instructions, evaluation tools, and reporting capabilities handle much of the project work. Your employees can concentrate on contributing business knowledge, setting priorities, evaluating demonstrated capabilities, and making decisions.
The Navigator carries requirements and findings forward through the project, reducing repeated work and providing a foundation for implementation scope and user acceptance testing.
You benefit from both an established body of knowledge and experienced consultants who apply it to your business.
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A practical foundation for your purchase decision
Your selection engagement provides:
Prioritized business and implementation requirements.
Comparative findings on ERP products and implementation partners.
Structured demonstration scripts and documented evaluation results.
Identified gaps, risks, assumptions, and vendor commitments.
A documented basis for your selection decision and the handoff to implementation.
You make the final selection. Wayferry provides the structure, analysis, and evidence to support it.
Experience clients value
“Using Wayferry saved months of work.”
Chris Bruno, CFO, Crown Prince
Our approach gives your team an organized way to contribute, identify showstoppers, compare alternatives, and keep the evaluation focused on business priorities.
A fixed fee informed by your initiative
The initial assessment establishes the business goals, potential value, and scope that inform our selection proposal.
Our fixed fee reflects the agreed scope, complexity, and potential business value of your initiative. You review and approve the scope and fee proposal before we begin selection.
If you have already completed the assessment with Wayferry, its findings carry forward. We update them where necessary rather than repeat the work.
Carry the findings into implementation
The requirements and evaluation findings remain useful after you choose a system. They provide a foundation for defining implementation scope, tracking commitments, and preparing user acceptance testing.
We offer commercial negotiation support and client-side implementation management through separately authorized services.
Independent advice, accountable to you
Wayferry is paid only by its clients. We receive no commissions or payments from software vendors or implementation partners.
Our role is to help you evaluate alternatives against your business needs and understand the compromises before making a purchase.
Discuss your ERP selection
Tell us what your replacement must achieve, your intended timing, and where your decision stands.
We will discuss your goals and explain how the initial assessment establishes the foundation for a selection engagement.
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Submitting this form does not commit you to an engagement.