Make your systems work harder for your business.

I work alongside your team and technology partners to implement a new ERP, improve the system you already have, and put AI into practical use. I stay involved through adoption and review, measuring what changes in the way your business runs.

Start with your business. Build the system around it.

Your ERP should help you understand what is happening across your business, from the stock you hold to the costs you carry and the commitments you make to customers.

I bring experience of ERP rollouts and operational leadership to the implementation itself. I work alongside your team and software partner to put processes into practice, work through issues, and check that the system is delivering the outcomes we agreed.

A clear path from business need to everyday use.

An ERP implementation changes how people work across your business. I stay involved in that work, helping your team put new processes into use and resolve the challenges along the way.

Whether this is your first ERP or a replacement for a system you have outgrown, I work with your team and implementation partner from planning through go-live and the review of operational results.

Together, we define what success should look like: clearer stock visibility, more dependable costing, smoother handovers, or reporting your managers can act on. Those priorities guide the project.

Talk to me about a new ERP
  1. Define what your business needs

    I work with your teams to map how purchasing, inventory, production, sales, and finance connect. We identify the gaps, agree on priorities, and turn them into clear requirements before you choose a system.

  2. Evaluate the system and the implementation partner

    I help you assess proposals and demonstrations against your actual workflows, reporting needs, budget, and capacity for change. We look beyond the software price to the work and ongoing support the implementation will need.

  3. Drive implementation with your team

    I work alongside your leadership team, process owners, and implementation partner to move the project forward. We resolve process decisions, work through issues, and track delivery against the agreed scope, responsibilities, and milestones.

  4. Prepare your data and your people

    I help your team plan for data clean-up, migration checks, user testing, and training. That includes agreeing who owns key information and testing whether the system supports real working scenarios before go-live.

  5. Follow through after go-live

    I work with your team through readiness checks, the transition, and the issues that surface after launch. We review adoption, reporting reliability, and the operational measures agreed at the start, then address the gaps.

You have the system. Let's make it more useful.

If your team still relies on separate spreadsheets, enters the same information twice, or struggles to get a reliable view of costs and stock, I can help you understand why.

The answer may involve the process, the data, the configuration, or the support people need to use the system well. I look at those pieces together before recommending where to invest your time and money.

We prioritise the improvements, put them into practice together, and track the results against our starting point. I stay involved as your team adopts the changes and we address what still needs work.

Talk to me about your current ERP
  • Understand what is getting in the way

    I listen to the people using the system and follow the work across departments. We look at spreadsheet workarounds, duplicate entry, slow handovers, and reports that people do not trust, then identify what is causing them.

  • Improve data quality and process discipline

    I help you review master data, transaction practices, approval flows, and ownership. Clearer routines around stock, purchasing, production, and finance give your team a more dependable foundation for decisions.

  • Get more from the capabilities you already have

    Together with your ERP team or support partner, I review how the system is configured, which useful capabilities are underused, and where workflows or integrations could reduce manual effort. We prioritise changes around business value and practical effort.

  • Make reporting useful to the people deciding

    I work with you to define the information your managers need about costs, stock, purchasing, production, and margins. We trace those reports back to the underlying processes and data, so the next step is clearer when a number changes.

  • Implement improvements and measure adoption

    I work with your team to address training gaps, put agreed improvements into use, and track adoption and operational results. If the current system no longer fits, we assess whether an upgrade or replacement is justified.

Start with a useful job for AI.

Where does your team spend time searching, repeating, summarising, or assembling information? Those are the questions I start with when we explore where AI could help.

I work with your team to put a useful AI application into practice, test its output, and measure its effect on the work. We agree how people will review it and assess the time saved, quality, and reliability before expanding its use.

  • Less repeated work

    I work with your team to introduce appropriate automation for routine information tasks, then compare the time and effort involved before and after.

  • Knowledge within reach

    I help your team put AI tools into use for finding business knowledge, then test whether the information is relevant, accessible, and useful.

  • Better decision support

    I help you use AI to organise context and explore options, with your managers retaining judgement and accountability.

Connect what you know.
Decide what comes next.

My Unified Decision Engine approach brings enterprise information, team knowledge, and AI support together around a management decision. I shape it around what your business needs to understand and act on.

The Unified Decision Engine A diagram showing how enterprise information, team knowledge, and AI can support a central decision system for management, with outputs for leadership reporting, compliance, and partner access. Sources Engine Outputs Enterprise data ERP · SAP · Oracle · Infor Codes · Parameters Bill of materials · Master files AI layer Large language models Claude · Gemini · GPT · DeepSeek Microsoft 365 Copilot Departments Independent & interdependent Marketing Sales Operations Procurement Finance Warehousing R & D Quality HR IT … the second brain. The Unified Decision Engine APP DATA · MANUAL DATA · AI DATA A clear layer between what the organisation knows and what it decides. Leadership decisions What to do next, and why. Board reporting · Scenarios Continual improvement Authorities Local & international compliance. Statutory filings Audits · Regulated categories Partner access Outside the walls, on purpose. Client portals Vendor portals · Data exports Served Consumers · Customers · Clients
  1. Business information

    ERP records, team knowledge, and information from across the organisation.

  2. The Unified Decision Engine

    Bring that information together with appropriate AI support and the context of the business.

  3. Informed decisions

    Give people a clearer basis for management action, reporting, and reviewing results.

The UDE. Information on the left. Management decisions on the right. The system in the middle helps make the route between them easier to examine.

Your ERP provides structured business information. Your people contribute operating knowledge. AI can help organise and retrieve context. I look at how these can work together to support a clearer route to a decision.

I use the UDE as a practical framework, not a packaged software product. Your management team remains responsible for each decision and for learning from what happens next.

Let's talk about
your business.

Tell me what needs to improve. We can discuss the changes to implement, the role I can play alongside your team, and how we will measure success.

inquire@sumithj.org +94 71 547 8686

I'm based in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
My experience reaches across borders.

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