Mandate 01
Replatforming, ERP and CRM programmes, data and BI foundations, legacy modernisation. One programme, one owner, from assessment to live operation in every market.
What brings companies to us
Commercial plans are being shaped around what the system can do rather than what the market wants. Every new country or channel adds another workaround.
Each entity runs its own processes and its own reporting logic. Group numbers get assembled by hand, and the close takes longer every quarter.
Eighteen months in, a great deal of spend, and no cutover date that anyone in the room actually believes.
It works, it is business critical, and the people who built it have left. Every change is a negotiation with risk.
Selection before build
Tool selection runs as a structured comparison against your requirements, with a total cost of ownership model over five years and, where the decision is genuinely close, a proof of concept on your own data. We hold no reseller agreements and take no implementation commissions, so the recommendation follows the business case rather than a partner margin. Sometimes the recommendation is to keep what you have.
Scope
The list matters less than the sequence. Most programmes fail on migration, integration and change, not on the product choice.
Track record
A headless, API first rebuild of Europe’s fastest growing mattress brand, rolled out across more than 30 countries without a single big bang cutover.
sevDesk, a leading German cloud accounting and tax software provider for small and mid sized businesses, was growing fast but running into technological scaling limits. We modernised the legacy stack and built the organisational structure for product led development.
A fast-growing D2C beauty brand selling through Shopify, Amazon, TikTok Shop and retail partners was running finance, product and inventory data across roughly 25 separate spreadsheets and tools. colayer is leading the target architecture, ERP selection and implementation.
A discovery gives you a target architecture, a costed and sequenced plan, and a recommendation you can defend to your board. If the answer is that you should not run the programme, you will get that answer too.
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