What should CFOs at multi-entity firms ask before choosing an ERP?
Evaluate your next ERP on governance and multi-entity control, and get a checklist you can run in any vendor demo.
73% of multi-entity businesses expect to outgrow their current technology within 12 months of hitting their growth goals.*
That is what drives the next ERP decision, and the two options that follow are both costly in different ways.
Legacy ERP implementations routinely run three to five times their quoted cost and take six months or more to go live. The newer class of AI-native tools may lack the multi-entity depth and audit-ready architecture that finance teams rely on.
This guide gives you a way to judge your next ERP on the terms that decide your close: governance, consolidation, explainable AI, and total cost of ownership. Inside are the questions to ask every vendor, and a checklist you can run during a live demo.
*2026 Enterprise Technology Benchmark Report, Intuit-commissioned survey of 2,000 senior leaders.
299% projected ROI over three years, with 74% savings on intercompany transaction processing and 83% savings on technology vendor management.
— Forrester Total Economic Impact study, commissioned by Intuit, February 2025. Projections in present value based on a composite customer.
How finance leaders at multi-entity firms evaluate an ERP with AI-native automation and intelligence built in.
Close on review
Continuous reconciliation keeps your numbers current through the period.
Consolidate in real time
Transaction-level eliminations give you an accurate, consolidated P&L across all entities.
Defend every entry
Each AI-assisted action logs what was recommended, who approved it, and when.
Inside the guide:
- How the ERP decision has changed, and the three forces behind it
- What AI-native means at the architecture level, and the signs of bolted-on AI
- The governance questions to bring to every vendor, including Intuit Enterprise Suite
- A platform evaluation checklist to run in a live demo, from audit trail to total cost of ownership
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