The context
A Belgian insurance group was eleven weeks from go-live on a finance-heavy S/4HANA programme when two senior functional consultants left within a fortnight of each other. The cutover weekend was fixed and tied to a reporting cycle.
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Case: keeping an insurer's S/4HANA cutover on schedule
An anonymised example of how a specialist network changes what is possible on a short timeline. Client details are withheld; the project context is real.
Start a conversationClient case · 22 April 2026
The approach
Instead of opening a search, we went to people already known to the ERP community who had done a comparable finance cutover. Three candidates were introduced within six working days, all pre-checked for availability across the cutover weekend and hypercare.
The outcome
Two consultants started within three weeks, overlapped with the outgoing team for handover and stayed through hypercare. The go-live date did not move. What made it work was not speed of sourcing but the fact that the relationships already existed.
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