THE BUYER’S TOOLKIT
Less guesswork. More structure.
Practical tools for cost planning and vendor evaluation. No account or contact information required.
Build your ERP cost model.
Enter your own quotes or assumptions. Values start at zero and are not estimates of any product’s price. Currency changes only the label; no exchange conversion is applied.
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3-year total
- One-time costs
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- Annual recurring costs
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- Average cost / month
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Formula: one-time costs + years × (12 × monthly subscription + annual support + annual internal cost). Excludes tax, inflation, financing and exit costs unless included in your inputs.
Ask every vendor the same good questions.
Twelve evaluation areas, with columns for evidence, delivery scope and acceptance ownership. Download as a CSV and adapt it to your business.
Demonstrate a real end-to-end order, including exceptions.
Show BOM changes, planning, production and job costing.
Trace receiving, movement, picking and reconciliation.
Reconcile operational transactions to the ledger.
Validate every required country output with local advisers.
Show source records, uncertainty and failure behavior.
Demonstrate role permissions and action approvals.
Document mappings, exceptions and business sign-off.
Define retry handling, reconciliation and support ownership.
Review current assurance scope and recovery evidence.
Identify project owners, milestones and acceptance tests.
Separate one-time, recurring, renewal and exit costs.