ERP Consulting Services
Select, implement, and stabilize an ERP that matches how your operation plans, builds, and ships.
$2.3B
in EBITDA benefits
150+
private equity firms served
4,500+
problems solved
8K+
workshop participants
EMPOWERMENT
Build an ERP Your Planners Actually Trust
ERP trouble usually shows up on the planning desk first. Buyers stop trusting MRP because bills of material, routings, and supplier lead times have drifted from reality, so expedites get managed in spreadsheets. Customizations from the original rollout turn every upgrade into a project, the installed version nears the end of vendor support, and acquired sites still close their books on separate systems.
VDS settles process design and data quality before any platform decision, then leads selection, implementation, and stabilization with operators who have run plants on ERP. Planners, buyers, and controllers come out of cutover working in a system they can rely on from the first week.
WHY CHOOSE VDS
Different Kind of ERP Consulting Partner
An ERP pays back once buyers trust system suggestions and controllers close on schedule, so VDS leaders work inside the program with finance, supply chain, and IT owners through hypercare. Seasoned operating leadership shapes each decision, the Value Driven Approach® ties requirements to customer value, and the VDS Business System® builds daily habit.
Seasoned ERP Practitioners
Fit-gap sessions are led by consultants with 15 to 30 years in plant, supply chain, and finance leadership, people who have worked MRP exception messages and closed month-end under audit.
Fit Before Contract
The Diagnostic® maps order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and plan-to-produce as they run today, so vendor demonstrations test the client’s own transactions, item data, and costing before anyone signs.
Leaders Through Hypercare
Through 360° Client Alignment®, ERP program managers and data migration specialists join the client’s team, run conference room pilots and mock conversions, and stay accountable through the first clean close.
THE VALUE DRIVEN APPROACH®
Clear Path From Requirements to Go-Live
The Value Driven Approach takes an ERP decision from a measured baseline through selection, cutover, and a stable first quarter on the new system.
Diagnostic
The work opens with the Diagnostic®. Assessors map order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, plan-to-produce, and record-to-report, test BOM and inventory accuracy, and catalog every customization and support deadline. You see entitlement, the gap between today's performance and what a well-fitted system delivers.
Proposal
Findings become options you can price side by side. Quick Wins clean the item master and retire unused customizations. Rapid Improvements reset MRP and standardize sites. Breakthrough Strategies replace or consolidate platforms. Every tier shows resourcing, timeline, total cost of ownership, and return.
Roadmap
If replacement is the right call, the roadmap runs requirements workshops and scripted demos on your own data, vets implementation partners, and phases rollout around peak season. Mock conversions and conference room pilots de-risk cutover, and every workstream has a named owner and a date tied to an ROI milestone.
Talent
360° Client Alignment® places ERP program managers, functional leads, data migration specialists, and change leaders alongside your team. They control scope and change orders, train super-users, write post-cutover standard work, and hand ownership to your process leads before hypercare ends.
Outcomes
You track progress against the Diagnostic baseline on measures you already watch, such as days to close, inventory accuracy, on-time delivery, and turns. Post-go-live reviews tie each phase to its ROI milestone and EBITDA, so you know when the next site is ready.
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
ERP Performance That Grows After Go-Live
ERP value erodes in the year after cutover when workarounds creep back and master data drifts. The VDS Business System® installs the routines that keep the system clean, from weekly MRP exception reviews and cycle-count audits to a governance board that approves every new customization.
Accurate Inventory, Reliable Plans
With clean bills of material, routings, and on-hand balances, MRP suggestions match reality. Buyers release orders straight from the system, expediting drops, and safety stock built to cover bad data can come down.
Faster, Cleaner Close
A standard chart of accounts, automated intercompany entries, and fewer manual journals shorten month-end, so controllers spend the first week of the month analyzing margin by product and customer and far less time reconciling.
Upgrades Without Rework
A Governance board that challenges each requested modification keeps the system close to standard, so new releases and security patches install on schedule and the business stops paying to rebuild old customizations.
End-to-End Traceability
Lot and serial tracking from receipt through shipment answers a customer complaint or recall query in minutes and gives auditors a complete product genealogy without days of searching paper records.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
ERP consulting services cover the full life of a business system, from assessing the current platform through selection, implementation, and improvement after go-live. At VDS, that work spans process mapping, requirements, scripted demonstrations, implementation partner evaluation, data migration planning, program leadership, and super-user training, each tied to planning, inventory, and close targets.
The right ERP system handles the company's own transactions, data, and growth plans with the fewest customizations. Selection starts from documented requirements, then each shortlisted platform runs scripted demonstrations on real items, orders, and costing, and finalists are compared on total cost of ownership. Technology firms VDS works with appear on the Our Partners page.
ERP implementation timelines depend on the number of sites and modules, the condition of master data, and how far processes need to change. A single-plant rollout moves faster than a multi-site consolidation, so larger programs go live in phases by site or module, each scheduled away from peak season and rehearsed through mock data conversions.
Replacement makes sense when the current ERP still cannot support the business once its data and processes are fixed. Many planning and reporting problems trace back to item master errors, MRP settings, or users who were never fully trained, and an optimization effort resolves those at a fraction of the cost. The Diagnostic® shows which path returns the most.
ERP consolidation moves an acquired business onto the platform company's system in planned phases, starting with a common chart of accounts and item numbering. The method stays the same whether or not a sponsor owns the business. Findings from Technology Due Diligence shape the first plan, and sponsors will find more on the Private Equity page.
ERP EXCELLENCE
ERP Results Measured in Planning and Finance
On the systems side, published VDS engagements include an IT infrastructure overhaul inside a broader operations transformation at a global CPG manufacturer, plus metric-tracking systems for a leading technology firm. Every ERP engagement reports its gains against the baseline the Diagnostic® establishes at the start.
LET'S CONNECT
Ready to Run the Business on an ERP That Fits?
Start with how orders, inventory, and the books move today.
An ERP consultation reviews where planning, costing, and the close breaks down on the current system and whether a fix, an upgrade, or a replacement returns the most.
From the first site, VDS and your team extend the approach to every plant and acquired business, connected to the broader Digital & Technology work.