How Ausforming Stopped Managing
ERP Consulting Growth Manually

ERP consulting doesn’t break because of demand

It breaks because of coordination.

Ausforming is an ERP consulting firm helping organisations modernise complex SAP environments. Their work is high-value, relationship-led, and often partner-driven. Deals are rarely linear. Conversations span months. Multiple stakeholders influence outcomes.

In this kind of business, every opportunity matters, and so does the context around it.

Ausforming didn’t have a lead problem.
They had a visibility and coordination problem.

When ERP growth starts creating drag

As demand increased, Ausforming saw a familiar ERP-consulting pattern emerge:

  • More partner introductions
  • More parallel conversations
  • More internal coordination
  • More “just checking where this is at” moments

The work itself scaled.
The effort to manage that work scaled faster.

Most go-to-market activity lived across:

  • Spreadsheets for tracking
  • Inboxes for context
  • Calendars for next steps

Each tool worked in isolation. Together, they made it hard to answer simple questions:

  • Which ERP conversations are active right now?
  • Where are partners involved?
  • What actually needs follow-up this week?
  • Which opportunities are moving, and which are stuck?

Nothing was broken.
But everything felt heavy.

The real risk wasn’t losing deals

It was losing senior time.

ERP consulting firms don’t lose deals because of bad outreach.
They lose leverage because senior people spend too much time coordinating instead of advising.

Every week, Ausforming lost hours:

  • Updating spreadsheets
  • Reconciling partner conversations
  • Manually preparing pipeline updates
  • Rebuilding context that already existed, just not in one place

As Sahil from Ausforming described it, time that should have gone into relationships and delivery was being absorbed by admin work.

Growth wasn’t the problem.
Managing ERP growth manually was.

Why RevOps Central was brought in

RevOps Central wasn’t brought in to “set up a CRM.”

They were brought in to remove unnecessary coordination work from Ausforming’s growth engine.

Before tools were discussed, the focus was on understanding:

  • How ERP conversations actually start
  • How partners introduce opportunities
  • Where context gets lost between teams
  • Which updates should never require manual effort

Only then were platforms evaluated, including HubSpot and Salesforce.

The deciding factor wasn’t feature depth.
It was whether the system could support ERP-style selling without forcing rigid, SaaS-style workflows.

That process led to HubSpot, but only after the operating model was clear.

Step 1: Make the website support ERP selling

The first change didn’t happen inside the CRM.

For an ERP consulting firm, the website is often the first signal of credibility, not a lead machine.

Ausforming’s website was reframed to:

  • Speak to ERP buyer problems, not services
  • Act as a structured entry point into the system
  • Capture enquiries without losing context

Forms were connected directly to HubSpot so introductions, referrals, and inbound interest entered the system cleanly — without manual handoffs.

Step 2: Turn CRM into shared ERP visibility

With the foundation set, HubSpot was implemented around how ERP consulting actually works, not generic sales templates.

Key changes included:

  • Multiple deal pipelines reflecting different partner and engagement types
  • Automatic syncing of email and meeting activity (no manual notes)
  • Custom properties capturing partner involvement and ERP context
  • Workflows handling ownership and follow-ups
  • Migration and clean-up of historical spreadsheet data

Within a week, the impact was obvious.

The team could see every ERP conversation, partner, and opportunity in one place. Reporting stopped being a manual exercise.

Administrative effort dropped by roughly 75%.

Step 3: Supporting growth without adding overhead

With visibility in place, Ausforming focused on controlled growth.

  • Event-based ERP marketing flowed directly into HubSpot
  • Outbound was structured using Smartlead and Apollo
  • Inbound conversations were captured through live chat

For the first time, Ausforming had end-to-end visibility from first conversation to signed engagement — without increasing admin work.

What changed

This wasn’t about automation for its own sake.

It was about removing friction from ERP growth.

  • Manual admin dropped by ~80%
  • Reporting time dropped by ~75%
  • Partner and opportunity context lived in one system
  • Senior leaders stopped chasing updates

As the COO shared, pipeline updates now take minutes, not hours and nothing relies on memory anymore.

What Ausforming became

Ausforming didn’t become more automated.

They became more operationally calm.

  • Senior consultants focus on clients and partners
  • Leadership has confidence in pipeline visibility
  • Growth happens without coordination drag

The system runs quietly in the background.
The team doesn’t think about it.

They trust it.

That’s what scalable ERP consulting growth actually looks like.