Case Study 01 · Agri-Food Group · ERP Transformation
Consolidating ERP across finance, manufacturing and supply chain
An end-to-end architecture engagement, taking ERP consolidation from discovery through to live integration across multiple business units.
The Situation
The group operated across finance, manufacturing and supply chain with overlapping systems accumulated through years of growth and acquisition. Each function had a defensible reason for the platform it ran, and no one had the mandate — or the architectural picture — to challenge the whole.
The brief was deliberately broad: consolidate the ERP estate, but do so without freezing the business while the work was in flight.
Approach
- Owned end-to-end architecture and business analysis across the programme, from discovery through to implementation.
- Defined a target operating model alongside the integration architecture, so business and technical decisions resolved against the same picture.
- Designed event-driven integration on Azure Service Bus and APIs, allowing systems to be replaced incrementally rather than in a single cutover.
- Led the SAP Concur integration as Product Lead, taking it through to adoption across business units.
- Produced HLD and LLD artefacts and integration designs that delivery teams could execute against without further architectural intervention.
Outcome
- ERP consolidation delivered without a programme-wide freeze on the business.
- Event-driven architecture left in place — extensible to systems that come into scope later.
- SAP Concur live across business units, owned end-to-end through to adoption.
- Architecture artefacts adopted as the reference for downstream phases.
What Travels
Big-bang ERP consolidations are usually a symptom of architectural impatience. The work that travels is the operating model — once the business agrees on how it wants to work, the systems decision becomes a logistics problem rather than a political one.
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