Independent ERP consultant: vendor-neutral ERP selection
Choosing an ERP isn't choosing software. It's choosing how your company will run for the next several years. We help organizations define, evaluate, and select the ERP that best fits their processes, objectives, architecture, and investment capacity.
What does an independent ERP consultant do?
An independent ERP consultant helps a company decide which ERP it needs before signing with a vendor or an implementation partner. At Cyrrus that decision is made with criteria defined from your operations: we have no commercial alliances or commissions with any ERP vendor, and the recommendation can be to switch platforms, optimize the current one, or not change at all.
Selection
Gathers requirements, builds the longlist and shortlist, runs the RFI/RFP and the demos, and compares vendors against six criteria and the total cost of ownership.
Timeline
As a reference, the Identify phase of the CIRA Method usually takes 6 to 12 weeks, from the strategic kickoff to support during contracting.
Implementation
Selection and implementation are separate phases. During the implementation of the recommended ERP we can act as an external PMO that governs schedule, risks, and vendors.
When the ERP stops keeping up with the business
- 01
Business growth
The company grew faster than the platform holding it up.
- 02
Disconnected systems
Multiple systems that don't talk to each other, with duplicated information.
- 03
Manual processes
Parallel spreadsheets to cover what the ERP doesn't solve.
- 04
Poor financial visibility
Consolidating operations takes weeks instead of being available in real time.
- 05
Obsolete current ERP
The platform stopped getting real support or scaling with the operation.
- 06
Expansion to new units or countries
The current ERP can't support the complexity of growing into new geographies.
The ERP that worked when the company was smaller can become a constraint once the organization grows.
Deciding to change ERPs is easy. Picking the right one is hard.
SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Infor, NetSuite, and many other platforms can solve similar problems from different angles.
More features doesn't mean a better fit.
We determine which ERP your organization actually needs
We evaluate the ERP from six perspectives
01Functional
Can it support the business's financial, commercial, logistics, and production processes?
02Technical
Can it integrate with the current technology architecture without friction?
03Economic
What's the total cost of ownership, not just the initial license?
04Strategic
Can it support growth and expansion into new units or countries?
05Vendor
Who will be behind the platform over the next five years?
06Adoption
Will the organization actually use it, or will it end up underused?
From uncertainty to a decision you can back up
- Requirements map
- Evaluation matrix
- Vendor longlist / shortlist
- RFI / RFP
- Demo evaluation
- Vendor scoring
- TCO (total cost of ownership)
- Risk analysis
- Recommendation
- Implementation roadmap
The decision doesn't end at the recommendation
"We don't recommend technology off a catalog. Our job isn't to sell a particular platform. We evaluate the available alternatives and build a recommendation based on each organization's needs, priorities, and context. 100% technology-agnostic."
This is what it looks like when the decision does reach execution.
"Thanks to Cyrrus's support we were able to dream it and do it, and we're ready for the next dream."
92 requirements · ERP and CRM live in 8 months
"We decided to work with Cyrrus because it offered us a path to world-class best practices." Today they have a platform that lets them see information live and better understand what's happening with their customers.
From Excel sheets to live customer data
"It's not just an ERP change — it's an organization-wide change management process."
Change management from the planning stage
"We came to Cyrrus for something that was strategic and vital for us: keeping our people's quality of life during the pandemic."
−36% high ergonomic risks in one month
Frequently asked questions
When the company has grown faster than its platform, runs systems that don't talk to each other, depends on parallel spreadsheets, takes weeks to consolidate its financial information, its ERP no longer gets real support, or it is about to expand into new units or countries. Also before renewing or extending the current ERP: sometimes the answer is to optimize, not replace.
As a reference, the CIRA method's Identify phase typically takes 6 to 12 weeks, from the strategic kickoff through contracting support.
We evaluate your current platform against the same six objective criteria, even if changing vendors isn't on the table — sometimes the answer is to optimize, not replace.
Cost depends on scope and organization size, not on a list price. What stays constant is the ratio: selection advisory costs a fraction of the ERP license plus implementation, and its job is to keep that far larger investment from landing on the wrong platform. It is defined with you before starting, with fixed scope and deliverables.
We evaluate against six objective criteria, defined before looking at any brand: functional fit to your real processes, technical viability on your current infrastructure, five-year total cost of ownership (not just the license), vendor strength and experience in your industry, your team's capacity to adopt it, and the long-term sustainability of the product and its roadmap.
Because a vendor has one product to sell and their evaluation may end at that product. Cyrrus holds no commercial alliances or commissions with any ERP manufacturer: the criteria come from your operation, not from a catalog, and the outcome may well be that the best decision is not to change platforms at all.
Yes. We work with organizations across Colombia and the rest of LATAM, using the same six-criteria evaluation process and no commercial alliances that would bias the recommendation toward a particular local or regional vendor.
Those are two separate phases of the CIRA Method. If needed, we also act as an external PMO during the implementation of the recommended ERP, with the same real accountability for the outcome that we apply during selection.
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