Keep the ERP. Close the spreadsheet gap.
iRely layers commodity contracts, claims, and risk on SAP or Oracle. Coexistence, not rip-and-replace.
"They don't want us to replace that. They want to add something." Exactly. Your ERP of record stays. The uncontrolled manual layer beside it is what changes.
See the coexistence architecture
Add, don't replace.
The 20-year ERP investment stays right where it is. We layer commodity contracts, claims, and risk on top — no rip-and-replace risk.
Nobody has to defend tearing out a stable system. You add controlled scope where the spreadsheets are.
Why it holds · Purpose-built to layer commodity contracts, claims and risk on top of SAP or Oracle — a coexistence architecture that closes the spreadsheet audit gap without rip-and-replace risk.
Where trades go sideways: desk to warehouse
A trade looks clean on the desk. Then it becomes a physical load. Physical parameters shift during transit or storage. A shipment comes up short. A unit arrives damaged or off-spec.
That's the handoff where detail falls between systems — the purchase contract in one place, the warehouse receipt in another, the sales side in a third.
iRely carries the whole handoff in one system: purchase contract, shipping, warehouse receipt, inventory, sales contract, outbound shipment. Nothing drops in the gap between them.
Three gaps, three enforced workflows
Weight and quality claims
Slack bags, short containers, moisture swings — handled as an auditable workflow. Retires the claims-tracking spreadsheet on the trading desk.
Risk reports
Futures pricing, hedging, exposure, and mark-to-market, generated by the system. Retires the exposure workbook that lives outside your ERP.
Full trade lifecycle
Purchase contract through outbound shipment in one flow. Retires the hand-keyed log that reconciles contract to load to invoice.
Where big-ERP commodity projects stall, we get called
The pattern is documented in our market. SAP went into Hershey's and Ecom on commodity scope — and couldn't implement it. Microsoft Dynamics blew up at Neumann.
Commodity trading is where big-platform implementations break. The scope is too specialized to configure generically, and the failures land after you've committed.
A vertical specialist that carries exactly that scope is the lower-risk path. It's also the choice you won't have to defend to your committee a year later.
Risk and claims become auditable, not artisanal
Risk reports, system-generated
Futures pricing, hedging, and exposure come out of the core system — not a spreadsheet your auditor can't trace.
Weight claims as workflow
Coffee traders hit moisture-driven discrepancies on roughly 90% of shipments. That becomes a managed, enforced process.
Quality claims, controlled
Slack bags and missing containers run as tracked claims instead of ad hoc email chains outside any system.
One data model beats nine integrations
We've seen a nine-system enterprise pay more each year for integration maintenance than replacement software would have cost. That's the runaway TCO a stitched-together stack quietly absorbs.
A single unified data model removes the stitching. No more reconciling the same contract across systems that each hold a slightly different version.
One source of commodity truth, feeding your ERP. Fewer bridges to break, fewer inconsistencies to chase.
Proof you can put in front of the committee
One enterprise paid more for integration maintenance than replacement software would have cost
Big-ERP commodity scopes stalled at Hershey's, Ecom, and Neumann — the scope we finish
Walk the architecture with your ERP lead
Bring your ERP owner. We'll show the coexistence diagram and walk the audit trail end to end — contract to claim to invoice.
No rip-and-replace to plan. Just the commodity layer that sits on top of what you already run.