ERP migration
Migrate Your ERPfor optimized business processes and efficiency
An ERP move is decided by master data, open balances and period timing more than by technology. Here is how those work, and where we can honestly help.
What we can and can't do here
None of our published work is an SAP, Oracle or NetSuite migration, and if that is your project, you need a certified partner for that product. Our experience is building and integrating around ERP: a custom ERP for a fabrication wholesaler built over about two years, and integrations that send data into Microsoft Dynamics for a beverage retailer and a water-treatment company. So we are a good fit for moving off a custom or small-business ERP, for the integrations around a new one, and for the data extraction and checking alongside a product partner.
An ERP move is mostly a data and process question
- Master data. Customers, suppliers, items and charts of accounts have usually drifted for years: duplicates, retired codes, inconsistent units. Cleaning this up is the slowest part, and it can't be left until the end.
- Open items versus history. Most moves bring opening balances and open orders, invoices and purchase orders, and keep full history in an archive. Bringing all of it costs far more and rarely helps. Finance and audit decide how much must stay queryable.
- Period timing. Cutting over at the start of a financial period makes balances far easier to prove. Year-end is usually the worst time to try.
- Stock. Inventory figures have to match a physical count at cutover, or the new system starts out wrong and staff stop trusting it.
- Custom processes. Each one becomes a choice: change how you work to fit the product, or pay to customise it and carry that cost through every upgrade.
- Everything connected to it: shop, CRM, payroll, banks, EDI. Each interface needs to be re-pointed and retested, and they are easy to miss on the list.
If you are on SAP ECC
Many ERP projects at the moment are driven by this date. According to SAP's published timelines, mainstream maintenance for SAP ERP 6.0 with enhancement packages 6, 7 or 8 runs until December 31, 2027, and ended on December 31, 2025 for earlier packages. Optional extended maintenance from 2028 to 2030 needs a separate contract and costs extra. Confirm your own position with SAP, since it depends on your release.
The routes SAP describes for S/4HANA are system conversion (brownfield), a new implementation (greenfield) and selective data transition. SAP recommends running its Readiness Check first. This is specialist work and we don't offer it ourselves, but the integrations around SAP that have to survive the change are something we can take on.
What we learned building one
Our fabrication ERP covered quoting with material and labour costing, production tracking, inventory and SKUs across locations, dispatch, VAT billing, accounting, reporting and a customer ordering login. Month-end closing became faster and stock figures matched the floor. It was built between about 2012 and 2014, so its stack reflects the period, and we are not offering it as a product. What stays useful is an understanding of how order-to-cash connects to production and stock, and where the numbers go wrong.
ERP migration questions
Can you migrate us to SAP S/4HANA or NetSuite?
Not as the lead. We have no published project of that kind, and you should use a certified partner for the product. We can work alongside them on data extraction, reconciliation and the integrations with your other systems.
Should we bring all our history into the new ERP?
Usually not. The common pattern is opening balances and open transactions in the new system, with history kept in an archive that can be queried. Your finance team and auditors should decide how much must remain accessible, and for how long.
Which ERP, and what connects to it?
Tell us what you run today and what you are moving to. We will say what we can take on and what belongs with a product partner.
We reply within one business day (IST).