For Mid-Market CFOs

The ERP Business Case Builder

The four numbers your board needs to see, plus the payback that follows. Calculated from your EOFY data in under five minutes, and ready to take into your next board paper.

Number One

The cost of the gaps

What you spend every year working around what your current ERP cannot do natively. Manual reconciliation, bolt-on systems, and the integrations holding it all together.

Include sub-ledger to GL bridges, intercompany matching, and the period close scramble.

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Salary plus on-costs (super, leave, overhead) divided by working hours. Typical AU mid-market range is $75 to $130.

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Reporting tools, consolidation platforms, point solutions, and any subscription doing work your ERP should be doing.

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What you pay each year to keep brittle integrations alive.

Number Two

The growth you cannot reach

Revenue or scale your current system is actively holding back. Most CFOs underestimate this number because it does not appear on a P&L line. The questions below help quantify what is otherwise hidden.

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Tick any of the following that apply to your business right now

  • We are turning away orders or losing deals because our systems cannot keep up with volume or response speed 2.5%
  • We have delayed entering a new market, geography, or channel in the last 24 months because of ERP limitations 1.5%
  • Onboarding a new entity, business unit, or acquisition takes months rather than weeks in our current system 1.5%
  • Our sales or service team works with outdated inventory, pricing, or customer data that affects deal velocity 1.5%
  • A planned expansion, acquisition, or growth initiative is currently constrained by what the system can support 2.5%

Percentages are conservative benchmarks for AU mid-market businesses. Even one ticked item often surfaces a number larger than the cost of replacement itself.

Number Three

The risk you are carrying

Compliance, audit, and operational risk exposure created by gaps in your current ERP. Tick the items that apply to your business.

  • BAS and tax workpapers built manually each quarter $20-40k
  • Intercompany reconciliation done by hand at period end $35-70k
  • Critical system knowledge sits with one or two people $50-100k
  • Audit findings or controls gaps unresolved from last cycle $25-55k
  • Payroll compliance (super, STP, Payday Super) managed outside the system $20-50k
  • Legacy platform with known security or supportability concerns $30-70k

Values shown are industry benchmark exposure ranges for AU mid-market businesses. Calculations use the midpoint of each range as a conservative estimate.

Your Board Summary

The four numbers, ready to present

A defensible business case, built from the data your EOFY close has already given you.

One

$0

Annual cost of gaps

Two

$0

Revenue constrained

Three

$0

Annual risk exposure

Four

$0

Cost of doing nothing (3 years)

The cost of doing nothing

Workarounds get heavier, integrations decay, and the cost of staying climbs each year you defer the decision.

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Year One
$0
Year Two
$0
Year Three
Three-year cost of doing nothing $0

ERP investment payback

How quickly the cost of replacement is recovered, based on AU mid-market benchmarks for businesses at your revenue scale.

Payback in

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months

Three-year ROI

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on the investment

Enter your annual revenue above to estimate payback.

A paragraph for your board

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Next step

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The ERP Business Case Builder is provided by OneKloudX, a multi-ERP solutions partner across Australia and New Zealand. Estimates use conservative industry benchmarks. Your exposure may differ.