01The challenge
The chain used maybe 15% of a licensed ERP and paid for all of it — $1.1M a year, plus consultants for every change. Store managers worked around the system with spreadsheets, which meant inventory counts were fiction and reordering was guesswork.
02The approach
We built only what the business actually uses: inventory, ordering, and reporting, shaped around how the stores really work. The migration ran store by store with the ERP as fallback, and the client's two in-house developers pair-programmed with us from day one so ownership transferred with the code.
BEFORE
LICENSED ERP
15% USED · 100% PAID
15% USED · 100% PAID
→
AFTER — OWNED PLATFORM
INVENTORY
ORDERING
REPORTING
STORES
03The result
$1.1MLICENSE FEES RECOVERED / YR
60STORES MIGRATED, ZERO ROLLBACKS
2IN-HOUSE DEVS NOW OWN IT
Three years on, the client's own developers ship changes weekly. The spreadsheets are gone, reorder points come from real counts, and the ERP contract was never renewed.
MD
MANAGING DIRECTOR, CLIENT NAME