iRely
Keep your ERP. Close the spreadsheet gap.
Your team said it themselves: they don't want you to replace what works — they want to add what's missing. That's exactly what this is.
Layer commodity contracts, claims, and risk on top of SAP or Oracle. Nothing you trust gets touched.
Add, don't replace.
The 20-year ERP stays your system of record. The uncontrolled manual layer beside it — that's what changes.
No rip-and-replace. No betting your finance backbone on a migration. Just the commodity scope your ERP was never built to carry, running in one controlled place.
The commodity scope your ERP can't cover
SAP, Oracle, and Dynamics run your financials well. They don't run commodity trading.
Demand planning. Purchase contracts. Quality and blending. Hedging and exposure. None of it fits the ERP's data model, so it lands somewhere else.
That somewhere is spreadsheets. Run by a handful of scarce experts. Outside any control framework your auditors would recognize.
That's the gap this page closes.
A coexistence architecture, purpose-built
Here's how the layer actually works, in plain terms.
Commodity runs in iRely
Contracts, pricing, claims, and risk live in the layer built for them — not forced into an ERP module that was never designed for the job.
Financials post to your ERP
Your system of record stays the system of record. iRely feeds it clean commodity data through one controlled interface.
One bridge, not nine
Your IT team stops re-stitching data models by hand. A single interface replaces the web of manual bridges you maintain today.
Where big-ERP commodity projects stall, we get called
SAP implementations stalled at Hershey's and Ecom. Microsoft Dynamics encountered serious issues at Neumann.
The pattern is clear: commodity-scope projects test the limits of big platforms. It's too specific, too physical, too full of edge cases the generic model doesn't hold.
A vertical specialist built for exactly that scope carries less execution risk. It's also the one you won't have to defend to your committee two years from now.
Risk and claims become auditable, not artisanal
The manual layer is the part you have to defend. This is how it stops being manual.
System-generated risk reports
Futures pricing, hedging, and exposure come out of the core system — not out of a spreadsheet one trader keeps on a laptop.
Enforced claims workflows
The moisture-driven weight disputes coffee traders hit on roughly 90% of shipments run as a managed workflow instead of ad hoc email.
Contracts under control
Purchase and sales contracts live in one place with a trail, so what auditors ask for is already recorded.
One data model beats nine integrations
One enterprise ran nine systems stitched together. The bill for keeping those integrations alive came in higher than replacing the software outright would have cost.
That's the trap of a web of point solutions: the maintenance never ends, the data never fully agrees, and the total cost quietly runs away from you.
A single unified data model removes the stitching. It removes the inconsistencies. And it removes the runaway cost your team currently absorbs without anyone naming it.
Scale and trust where it matters most
The largest roasters and traders in the commodity market run the full lifecycle through iRely.
- All of it
- Coffee roasting at scale
- Largest
- Roasters and traders in coffee
- End-to-end
- Purchase contract to outbound shipment in one system
Get the iRely vs. SAP fit brief
A forwardable one-pager for your committee: where SAP covers commodity scope, where it doesn't, and what coexistence costs versus the manual workarounds you run now.