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The decision has your name on it. So does ours.

Choosing a finance system is one of the few decisions a CFO cannot quietly reverse. So the work starts with your process rather than a product demo — and the people who draw that map stay on the project.

01The drawing

We draw your system before we recommend anything to run it on.

ERP, EPM, CRM and HCM are not four products on a price list. They are one drawing, and which part you buy follows from where your version of it is breaking.

EPM PLAN · CONSOLIDATE · CLOSE 02 CRM CUSTOMERS · PIPELINE CONTRACTS · ORDERS 03 ERP SYSTEM OF RECORD TRANSACTIONS · LEDGERS ENTITIES · REVENUE 01 HCM PEOPLE · ORG STRUCTURE ABSENCE · PAYROLL INPUT 04 actuals · ledgers trial balance plan · targets budget 1 → orders, contracts ← invoices, balances ← cost centres, entities → employees, payroll cost pipeline → forecast 3 headcount plan → forecast 2 eUNIFY · MIDDLEWARE · ONE INSPECTABLE BOUNDARY 05 PERSONIO employee master, absences DATEV journals, tax handover PERK travel & expense data + YOUR SYSTEMS individual integrations
Solid lines run today. Dashed lines are planned and not yet real — that distinction is the reason the drawing is worth reading. A reference sheet, not yours; yours is what the first three weeks produce.
02The order it has to happen in

Process, tool, automation, AI. We do not skip one.

Every company is somewhere on this ladder already. The damage happens when a stage gets skipped.

Process

What actually happens, written down — including the parts that live in one person’s head.

Leave when the map matches reality, not the org chart

Tool

The system chosen from the mapped process, argued against the alternatives that were rejected and why.

Leave when the system runs the process without a spreadsheet holding it together

Automation

The repeated, rule-shaped work handed to the system — matching, allocation, approvals.

Leave when the exceptions are rare enough to be interesting

AI

Design-time only: reading a landscape, comparing options, drafting a migration plan. It does not run inside your live finance system, and we will not describe it as if it did.

Nobody is here who did not climb the first three

Every competitor can put AI on a slide. The part that is hard to copy is the refusal.

03Questions worth asking us

Most ERP projects do not fail on the software.

Budget, configuration and how long your close takes afterwards are decided by whoever implements it. The partner deserves harder questions than the product.

Who writes the process map, and when?

If the answer is “during the project”, the price in front of you is an estimate of work nobody has scoped yet. Ask to see the map before the contract.

Which of your people is still here in month seven?

Ask for the name. Then ask what else that person is booked on, because month seven is when the implementation turns up the thing nobody wanted to find.

When did you last recommend a rival system?

Every partner calls its recommendation independent. Far fewer can date the last time being right about it cost them the licence revenue.

04Where the cost sits

The close is a handover, and nobody sells you the joint.

Four steps owned by the record, four owned by the report, one crossing between them every month. Where that crossing is manual, the close stops being a report and becomes a negotiation about which number is right.

ERP the record EPM the report 01 Cut-off ledgers frozen 02 AR · AP · rev. accruals booked 03 Interco & FX eliminations 04 TB locked trial balance 1 the joint — see note 01, sheet 01 manual here, and the close becomes a negotiation 05 Consolidate multi-entity 06 Variance plan vs actual 07 Reporting board pack 08 Re-forecast next period the approved plan becomes next period's budget in the ERP — the cycle closes, or it does not
The month-end close as a swimlane, with the approved plan returning as next period’s budget.
05Work already delivered

Five projects we are allowed to describe.

Twenty legal entities in one, six in another, nineteen countries in a third. The pattern underneath is the same: work being done by hand, in a spreadsheet, by somebody who could not go on holiday in the first week of the month.

AMANNGlobal textile manufacturing

Travel and project expenses ran through multi-country rules, currencies and reimbursement standards by hand, and SAP had to stay the single source of truth without data silos forming around it.

ScenicLuxury travel, operating on nearly every continent

Consolidation and intercompany transactions ran across disparate systems that had to be reconciled by hand, and revenue recognition depended on historical data.

HasenkampLogistics — high-value goods, art handling, global relocation

A highly mobile workforce produced a large volume of international expenses, handled by manual processes that differed from entity to entity, with limited visibility and control over what was being spent.

NZYMBiotechnology — enzymes and reagents for life sciences and diagnostics

Expense management was manual across six entities, with no real-time view of spending and no clean route into the accounting system.

PerkTechnology — enterprise spend management

Visibility was poor across disparate data sources, consolidation and currency conversion were manual, and different ledgers reported differently.

Five, against ninety-plus NetSuite projects, because five are the ones with written permission. No outcome figure appears above — the published case studies carry none, and we do not invent them.

06Who stays

The same names, from the first call to the year after go-live.

LK

Lars Kirschstein

Managing Director

Takes the first call and presents the proposal himself.

CS

Christoph Schweins

Managing Director

Signs off scope and price, and carries the commercial risk on our side.

FK

Fares Khattab

ERP & NetSuite

The technical read on your instance: what is configured well, and what is quietly costing a week a month.

JG

Jarrid Gilfillan

Head of Products

Owns the products and the connectors between systems.

A real photograph or none.

07Before you sign anything

Talk to the person who would run yours.

A first call about the business, your own process walked end to end, a proposal that argues the options against each other, and only then the software on screen.

90+ NetSuite projects · around 100 people across ERP and EPM · supporting finance teams since 2006 · under 100 days to go-live on a single-entity build. Customers include Sherpany, DOCO, Bitpanda.

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