The score is not a grade on your business. It is a measure of how much friction stands between you today and a system that goes live quickly and stays trusted.
The six questions map to the six things that most reliably predict how an ERP project goes:
How you run operations today
Spreadsheets and WhatsApp are not a failure, they are a starting point. What matters is how much of your daily operation depends on files only one person understands. The more tribal knowledge, the more valuable a system becomes, and the more discovery your implementation needs.
How fragmented your tooling is
Every separate system is a seam where data gets re-typed, reconciled and argued about. Consolidation is usually where the fastest savings live, and the count of disconnected tools is the best single predictor of how much time your team is losing to them.
Whether leadership sees live numbers
If cash, margin and stock require someone to build a report, decisions wait for the report. Real-time visibility is typically the first benefit a new system delivers, often within weeks of go-live.
Where it hurts most
The sharpest pain (closing the books, chasing stock counts, invoicing delays) tells us which module should go live first. Good implementations sequence around the pain instead of switching everything on at once.
Team size and timing
Scale changes the rollout plan, not the feasibility. Timing matters because ERP projects done under deadline pressure (a fiscal year change, a compliance date, an expiring licence) need a different phasing than exploratory ones.
How to read your number
A high score means your fundamentals are in place and the fastest path is a focused implementation of the modules that remove your biggest friction. A lower score does not mean "not ready." It means the plan should start smaller: usually one connected core (accounting plus the operation that feeds it) and a clean data migration, with everything else phased behind it.
Either way the next step is the same: a discovery call where we turn the score into a concrete, phased plan with real dates. That conversation is free, and it is the same first step we have used across 100+ projects since 2017.