Turn Your ERP Investment Into a Successful Implementation.
CatalistIQ helps manufacturing and distribution companies select the right systems and partners, negotiate stronger agreements, build an executable project plan, and oversee implementation through stabilization.
Get the planning, controls, and independent visibility your executive team needs to guide the implementation successfully.
Nearly 70% of ERP initiatives fail to fully meet their intended business outcomes.12
Research findings reported by Gartner and McKinsey & Company.
See the ERP Risks Your Project Team May Miss
Your executive team knows the business. Your project managers know how to manage tasks. Your systems integrator knows how to configure and deploy the software.
What is often missing is someone responsible for keeping the business strategy, project plan, commercial agreements, and technology aligned from beginning to end. CatalistIQ helps identify assumptions, omissions, dependencies, and readiness problems before they turn into costly overruns.
Who independently verified that your implementation plan is complete?
Who confirmed that internal resource assumptions are achievable?
Who tested whether the implementation partner’s assumptions match operational reality?
Who verifies that completed deliverables are operationally usable?
Who reviews vendor change orders against the original scope and SOW?
Who independently determines whether the project is ready to advance?
Who ensures that the system being built still supports the intended operating model?
Proven Results
Real Outcomes. No Theory.
Rescued failing implementation at Summer Industries.
An Epicor/Dynamics implementation failure risked a $2M write-off. We re-baselined the project plan, established strict PMO controls, and stabilized the project within 90 days.
Eliminated inventory variance at Marsh Furniture.
Integrated Infor ERP with custom business intelligence dashboards to resolve spreadsheet desynchronization, cutting annual inventory variance from $1.25M down to $7K.
GridMod PMCOE at Duke Energy.
Established project controls for a multi-billion dollar Smart Grid transformation portfolio, implementing PMBOK guidelines to save $2.2M in cost overruns.
Keeping the business, the plan, and the technology aligned.
Most ERP projects have business experts, project managers, and systems integrators. What they often lack is someone responsible for keeping the business strategy, the execution plan, and the technology aligned from beginning to end.
CatalistIQ operates as a 100% vendor-neutral client advocate. We do not sell software, we do not receive implementation referral fees, and we do not write custom configuration code. Our sole focus is protecting your commercial interests and ensuring execution certainty.
Explore the MethodologyAssess
Determine organizational readiness, capture current-state dependencies, audit legacy processes, and establish vendor-neutral requirements before committing capital.
Plan
Structure Statements of Work (SOWs) around performance-based gates, optimize software pricing agreements, and define executive decision workflows.
Assure & Recover
Verify implementation deliverables, audit vendor change orders, manage the transition risk, and rescue stalled programs with a re-baselined recovery roadmap.
Start Here
Where Are You Right Now?
Select the path that matches your current ERP stage. Each leads to targeted client advocacy services.
Planning a Transformation
You are evaluating vendor platforms or selecting partners. Before signing statements of work, you need independent due diligence, contract analysis, and a business readiness assessment.
Start HereRescuing a Failing Project
Your transformation is active but bleeding capital, missing milestones, or facing conflict with your integrator. We conduct root-cause diagnostics and implement a re-baselined recovery.
Get Help NowI'm a Referring Partner
You are a professional advisor or Private Equity firm with portfolio investments. You need vendor-neutral operational due diligence and implementation assurance to protect your investment.
Protect Your ClientsStop guessing. Start governing.
Every implementation governance program is managed within EXProv, our proprietary assurance framework. We enforce performance accountability using objective data, not promises.