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Owner-side ERP and finance systems advisory
Control the system decision before the system controls the business.
Foundry helps founder-led, PE-backed, and scaling operators choose, govern, and rescue ERP, finance systems, and operating-stack rollouts. We sit with the buyer, not the software vendor.
- Ex-Bain leadership
- 50+ transformation projects
- Founder-led delivery
- No junior handoff
Position
Buyer-side only
Delivery
Senior-led
Coverage
Selection to cutover
Scope
ERP, finance, ops stack
When to call Foundry
The right moment is before the project becomes vendor-led.
Most companies do not wake up wanting ERP advisory. They call when operating complexity starts showing up as slow close, bad reporting, inventory confusion, vendor drift, or implementation fear.
The vendor story is too clean
Demos look good, but nobody has pressure-tested edge cases, integrations, data ownership, or total cost.
The rollout is already slipping
Open decisions, unclear owners, unresolved data, shallow UAT, and weekly meetings that do not create control.
The business has outgrown the stack
Manual reporting, channel complexity, multi-location operations, usage-based billing, or finance/ops mismatch.
What we do
Architecture validation, owner-side PMO, and implementation rescue.
01
Readiness and architecture validation
We consolidate requirements, map workflows, define system ownership, identify data and reporting dependencies, and turn ambiguity into a documented operating decision.
02
Vendor and implementation partner pressure-testing
We make vendors prove real workflows, references, fit-gap, integration constraints, commercial risk, and implementation assumptions before leadership commits.
03
Owner-side PMO and control tower
We run the buyer-side cadence across leadership, operators, finance, IT, vendors, and integrators: decisions, RAID, scope, data, UAT, cutover, and weekly executive status.
04
Rescue and stabilization
If the project is stuck, we rebuild the evidence trail, isolate what is broken, reset ownership, force decisions, and recover the path to go-live or a clean pause.
How an engagement runs
A senior control layer, not another implementation vendor.
Map reality
Current systems, business workflows, pain points, data ownership, reporting needs, and stakeholder decisions.
Force the decision
Vendor fit-gap, architecture tradeoffs, sequencing, risk register, decision memo, and implementation guardrails.
Run the control tower
Weekly steering, RAID, vendor commitments, UAT, migration, training, cutover gates, and hypercare discipline.
What clients actually get
Living artifacts that make risk visible.
Foundry does not create theater. Every week should leave the company with sharper evidence, cleaner ownership, and fewer hidden assumptions.
- System-of-record and data ownership map
- Current and target tool architecture
- Vendor fit-gap and commitment tracker
- RAID, decision, dependency, and change logs
- Migration acceptance criteria and cleanup tracker
- UAT scripts, defect triage, and go-live evidence
- Cutover checklist, rollback logic, and hypercare tracker
- Weekly leadership RAG report and next-decision memo
Where this applies
ERP pain is not one industry. It is operating complexity.
Retail, D2C, and multi-location brands
Inventory, stores, ecommerce, POS, wholesale, 3PL, reporting, and finance need one operating view.
Services and PE-backed roll-ups
Multiple locations, acquired systems, fragmented finance, inconsistent reporting, and integration pressure.
Manufacturing and supply-chain businesses
MRP, procurement, inventory, production, warehouses, vendor commitments, and operational cutover risk.
SaaS and AI finance systems
Billing, usage data, revenue recognition, close, Salesforce, Stripe, Chargebee, Maxio, Intacct, and NetSuite.
Why Foundry
Senior people on senior risk.
Ex-Bain judgment, operator reality
Strategy-grade thinking applied to the parts of implementation where projects actually break.
50+ transformation projects
Enough pattern recognition to know which issues are normal, which are dangerous, and which need leadership now.
Founder-led delivery
The people selling the work stay close to the work. Clients do not buy senior trust and receive a training ground.
No software commissions
We are not a reseller. We are not your SI. The vendor can build; Foundry protects the buyer-side decision.
Start the conversation
Talk to Anmol before the project becomes vendor-led.
Send the system, stage, and risk. Useful context includes vendor uncertainty, bad data, stalled rollout, unclear UAT, finance/ops mismatch, cutover fear, or a project that needs rescue.
Led by
Anmol Agarwal
ERP architecture validation, owner-side PMO, vendor pressure-testing, and rescue.