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Independent IFS Cloud consultancy · UK
Independent IFS Cloud expertise, on your side of the table.
Fifteen years implementing, upgrading and rescuing IFS for mid-market manufacturers. No licences to sell and no quota to hit — just practical help getting more out of IFS Cloud.
Manufacturing-first IFS support across
Aerospace & DefenceEngineering & IndustrialFood & BeveragePharma & Life SciencesOil, Gas & EnergyService Industries
Vendor-neutral
An IFS specialist who works for you — not the vendor.
Meta ERP is an independent IFS Cloud consultancy. That independence changes the advice you get: it isn't shaped by licence targets or a partner's utilisation model.
You get an experienced practitioner who has sat on both sides of a manufacturing ERP project — configuring the system, and then living with the consequences. The result is honest guidance, realistic scope, and configuration that reflects how you actually make things.
- Impartial by design — no software to resell, so the recommendation is the right one, not the profitable one.
- Manufacturing-first — ETO, MTO, discrete and batch environments are the day job, not an afterthought.
- Senior, hands-on delivery — you work directly with the consultant doing the work, start to finish.
IFS Certified Practitioner
Certified as a Manufacturing Consultant on IFS Cloud — with real delivery experience across implementations, upgrades and long-term support.
What I do
End-to-end IFS Cloud support, without the overhead.
From first scoping conversation to long-term optimisation — pick up any stage, or all of them.
Upgrades & migration
Move from legacy ERP or older IFS versions to IFS Cloud.
Learn moreFunctional consultancy
Hands-on IFS configuration across manufacturing, supply chain & finance.
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Ongoing application support, enhancements and a steady hand post go-live.
Learn moreContinuous improvement
Turn a working system into a genuinely optimised one.
Learn moreFor IFS partners
Independent delivery capacity to strengthen your project teams.
Learn more15+Years working with IFS
6Manufacturing sectors served
1:1Senior-led, direct delivery
360°Implement · upgrade · support
How I work
A simple, honest way of working.
No inflated day-rates for junior consultants learning on your project. Four steps, senior all the way through.
01
Understand
We start with your operation, not the software. Where are the bottlenecks, the workarounds, the reports nobody trusts?
02
Scope & de-risk
A clear, honest view of what IFS Cloud should do for you — and where the real risk and effort sit before anyone commits.
03
Deliver hands-on
Configuration, testing and go-live support done alongside your team — with knowledge transferred, not hoarded.
04
Support & improve
Steady post go-live support and a rolling backlog of improvements, so the system keeps earning its keep.
Industries
Built around how your sector actually runs.
The IFS conversation is different in a machine shop, a food plant and an MRO facility. Here's where I focus.
Aerospace & Defence
Traceability, MRO and compliance-grade control.
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ETO, MTO and complex discrete manufacturing.
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Batch, shelf-life, recipe and lot traceability.
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Validated, audit-ready, GxP-aware processes.
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Asset-intensive operations and field service.
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Contracts, field service and asset management.
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For IFS partners
Already an IFS partner? I can strengthen your bench.
I regularly support established IFS partners and systems integrators with independent, contract-based delivery capacity — functional consultancy, upgrade work and go-live cover — when you need experienced hands without adding headcount.
- Slot into your delivery methodology and tooling
- Discreet, white-label, under your client relationship
- Manufacturing functional depth on tap
- Flexible — days, weeks or a full workstream
In their words
What clients value most.
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Meta ERP gave us straight answers when everyone else was selling. We went into our upgrade knowing exactly where the risk was.
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Finally, someone who understands both the shop floor and IFS. The configuration actually reflects how we make things.
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Practical, senior, and no hand-holding required. It felt like having an extra head of ERP for the duration of the project.
Insights
All insights
Practical notes from the field.
Why IFS Cloud upgrades stall — and how to keep yours moving
Most upgrade delays aren't technical. They're decisions nobody made early enough. Here's where they hide and how to get ahead of them.
ReadFive ERP implementation mistakes mid-market manufacturers keep making
The same avoidable mistakes sink manufacturing ERP projects again and again. Recognise them early and you're most of the way to avoiding them.
ReadETO, MTO or discrete? Getting your IFS manufacturing model right from day one
Choosing the wrong manufacturing model in IFS is expensive to unpick later. A practical guide to matching the setup to how you really make things.
ReadReady to de-risk your IFS Cloud project?
Book a no-obligation call. Tell me where you are — scoping, mid-implementation, upgrading or just frustrated with your current setup — and I'll tell you, straight, how I can help.