Services / Governance & Supply
Hardware & Software Supply
The best-designed system still runs on hardware and licences. We specify, source, license and install the infrastructure underneath the architecture we designed, so the responsibility for it not working stays in one place.
- Practice
- Governance & Supply
- Best fit
- Best fit alongside an implementation, a site expansion or a refresh cycle — particularly where a plant or warehouse needs rugged capture devices.
- Industries
- Manufacturing · Textile · Distribution · Retail · Healthcare · Education · Construction
What’s included
Scope, stated before we start
Six work-streams that make up a standard engagement. Anything outside them is priced separately and named in the proposal — never absorbed quietly.
Infrastructure specification
Server, storage, network and cloud sizing based on your measured transaction and reporting load, not a vendor bundle.
End-user computing
Workstations, laptops and peripherals standardised into two or three build tiers so support and spares stay simple.
Data-capture devices
Rugged handhelds, barcode and label printers, weighbridge and biometric terminals — selected for the environment they will actually live in.
Licensing & renewals
Microsoft, ERP and security licensing sized correctly, with a renewal calendar and true-up review so you stop paying for seats nobody uses.
Installation & commissioning
Racking, imaging, network configuration, device enrolment and commissioning tests — documented, with an as-built record handed over.
Warranty & lifecycle
Asset register, warranty tracking, spares policy and a refresh plan, so procurement becomes a schedule instead of an emergency.
Outcomes
What changes when this is done properly
These are the three differences clients describe six months after go-live — not feature claims.
- Infrastructure sized to measured load
- Licences right-sized with a renewal calendar
- An as-built asset register you can maintain
Not sure this is the right service? Discover is a fixed-price, two-to-three week assessment that answers the question with evidence — and it is usable whether or not you appoint us. Start there instead →
Who it’s for
Industries where this comes up most
Each links to how the service is shaped for that sector — the requirements differ more than vendors admit.
Our approach
The same four phases, applied to this scope
Reused deliberately. A consistent method is what makes a fixed price honest and a date holdable.
01
Discover
Process mapping before software selection.
We walk the floor and the ledger. Two to three weeks of structured interviews and document tracing produce a current-state process map, a data-quality baseline, and a written list of the decisions your systems cannot currently answer.
02
Design
One target architecture, agreed on paper.
Chart of accounts, item and customer master rules, approval hierarchies, integration contracts and reporting model are designed together — not discovered during build. You sign off a blueprint, not a demo.
03
Deliver
Configure, migrate, test, train — in that order.
Iterative configuration with fortnightly conference-room pilots. Data migration runs three times before go-live: trial, dry run, and cutover, each reconciled to the closing trial balance. Users train on their own data.
04
Sustain
Hypercare, then measurable adoption.
Four to eight weeks of hypercare with named owners and a burn-down of issues. Then a governance rhythm: master-data stewardship, monthly close review, and a Power BI adoption dashboard that shows whether the system is actually being used.
Related case study
One ledger for three entities, closed in four days
A spinning, weaving and garment group running three disconnected accounting systems consolidated onto a single NetSuite ledger — with a governed item master and export documentation generated from order data.
The blueprint stage was uncomfortable in the best way. They made us settle arguments about our own process before a single screen was configured — which is why the go-live was boring.
No. We specify to requirement and give you at least two compliant options with the trade-offs written down. If you already have a preferred supplier, we will specify and let them quote.
Yes — staged rollouts with a standard site build, a per-site commissioning checklist and one consolidated asset register across locations.
It gets audited and classified: keep, repurpose, or retire. Reusing serviceable equipment is usually the fastest way to fund the parts that genuinely need replacing.
Warranty claims run through us. Day-to-day support can stay with your IT team, come to us under an SLA, or split — first line internal, escalation to us. We put it in writing either way.
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