Contoso Technology Programme — Status Dashboard

Cloud ERP procurement · ERP integration services · S2P agentic platform · AI agent governance

Prepared for: Corey Gray
Reporting date: 7 September 2026
Internal sources: Outlook, Teams, SharePoint/OneDrive
External sources: Web search
Evidence note. Every internal item below is traced to a named email, Teams message or document. No Teams channel conversations or meeting transcripts were available for the period reviewed — the Absolute Technology R400 Infrastructure, FCS Application Upgrade and AI Agent Central channels contain only system events, the calendar held no events between 24 Aug and 30 Sep 2026, and no meeting transcripts were returned. Those gaps are flagged rather than filled.
5
Active workstreams
2
Red — needs decision now
€390k
Lowest compliant ERP bid vs €250k budget
+56%
Budget variance on preferred vendor
11
Open tasks (5 high priority)

Programme health status · owner · blockers

Red — decision blocked

Cloud ERP (SaaS) Procurement — RFP-2026-001

Owner: Corey Gray (Procurement Lead) · Approvers: Finance Director, Legal Counsel, CISO, Executive Sponsor
  • Evaluation complete: ERPMax Solutions 86/100 recommended; IntegraPro 73/100 conditional reserve; CloudFirst 58/100 recommended for disqualification.
  • Blocker: all three bids exceed the €250,000 budget — ERPMax €390k (+56%), IntegraPro €450k (+80%), CloudFirst €290k (+16%).
  • Blocker: vendor selection, budget-mitigation option and CloudFirst disqualification all still await Corey Gray's confirmation — the analysis closes with an unanswered "YOUR DECISION?".
  • Recommended path: Option D hybrid (phase CRM to Year 2, start at 280 users, negotiate 15–20%) → €250k–€270k.
Source: Teams message from Contoso S2P, "COMPREHENSIVE VENDOR OFFER ANALYSIS – CLOUD ERP SOFTWARE PROCUREMENT", 26 Feb 2026.
Amber — compliance gap

ERP Integration Services Procurement

Owner: Corey Gray · Status recorded as "Complete" for market analysis
  • Top choice Zava Trading (8/10, €14,500 one-time + €7,150/month); runner-up Contoso Supplies Ltd (7/10, €51,888 net + €925/month); Fabrikam Manufacturing 6/10.
  • Blocker: "SOW template missing and must be uploaded for full compliance" — compliance score is Partial.
  • Blocker: "No current EcoVadis or CreditSafe ratings found for vendors; compliance update required."
  • Vendor discrepancies and price/contract inconsistencies flagged in ARIBA/SAP data for review.
Source: Executive_Procurement_Brief_ERP_Integration_2026.docx (OneDrive, Corey Gray) — sections 1–5.
Amber — awaiting update

Zava S2P Agentic Platform

Owner: Corey Gray · Requester: Adil Eli
  • Objective on record: increase enterprise-wide adoption of the S2P agentic platform to 80% of business units.
  • Blocker: status request from Adil Eli — "What is the status of S2P agent?" — has been awaiting a reply since 22 Apr 2026.
  • Supporting artefacts exist: governance framework, strategic guidance, platform-based evidence and people-readiness papers.
Sources: Draft roadmap for AI/agentic integration (SharePoint, Sales and Marketing); Daily Task Digest – Sunday, September 6, 2026, item 5.
Amber — item overdue

AI Agent Governance (ZAG workstream)

Owner: Corey Gray · Tracked in Jira space "ZAVA AI Governance"
  • ZAG-1 to ZAG-5 assigned to Corey Gray. ZAG-5 (draft compliance criteria for agent behaviour) is overdue.
  • ZAG-4 — identify scope of governance — active.
  • Blocker: ZAG-6 "Set Up Agent Registration & Verification" is still unassigned as of the 2 Sep Jira digest.
  • Supporting Power Automate flow "When agent is added or updated" has been disabled after repeated failures, removing automated agent registration.
Sources: Jira weekly updates 26 Aug & 2 Sep 2026; Daily Task Digest 6 Sep 2026, item 7; Power Automate alert 24 Aug 2026.
Red — data integrity

Enterprise Data & Connector Integrity

Owner: Corey Gray · Raised by Microsoft 365 system notifications
  • ServiceNow connector (ServiceNowTickets2607141032) flagged 21 Aug 2026 — recorded as a compliance risk, needs admin-portal remediation.
  • Jira connector flagged 12 Aug 2026 — recorded as a data integrity risk; "Resolve this issue to ensure your data stays up to date."
  • Power Automate: 1–2 flow failures reported per week through late August, including the Cowork Plan Approval flow.
Sources: Daily Task Digest 6 Sep 2026, items 3, 4 and 9; Power Automate failure notices 24 & 31 Aug 2026.
Amber — visibility gap

Absolute Technology R400 Infrastructure

Owner: unconfirmed — task assigned to Corey Gray in Planner
  • Planner task "Communication Error Communication" was due 18 Aug 2026 and reported 7 days late on 25 Aug.
  • Blocker: no working conversation exists — the R400 Teams channel holds only a membership system event from 23 Feb 2026, so status cannot be verified from Teams.
  • Same gap applies to the FCS Application Upgrade team.
Sources: Planner late-task notice, 25 Aug 2026; Teams channel history for the R400 and FCS teams.

Milestone timeline ERP programme — procurement runway and 24-month delivery plan

Completed · 26 February 2026
Vendor evaluation closed
Three complete proposals scored across technical (40%), commercial (25%), risk (20%) and CSR/compliance (15%). ERPMax recommended, CloudFirst recommended for disqualification.
Overdue · gating everything below
Executive decision: vendor, budget option, disqualification
Three decisions required — approve ERPMax, choose Option D hybrid mitigation, confirm CloudFirst disqualification. Owner: Corey Gray with Executive Sponsor.
Week 1 after decision
Vendor notifications issued
Selection letter to ERPMax (conditional on budget), non-selection with debrief to IntegraPro, disqualification with reasons to CloudFirst. Owner: Procurement Team (Corey Gray).
Weeks 1–3
Internal alignment and negotiation kick-off
Brief Finance Director, Legal, CISO and Compliance; open commercial negotiation targeting €250k–€270k. Owners: Corey Gray + Executive Sponsor; then Procurement Lead + Legal Counsel.
Weeks 3–7
Legal review, due diligence and contract finalisation
Redlining, ISO 27001 / SOC 2 Type II validation, security and GDPR assessment, final pricing and payment schedule. Owners: Legal, Security, Compliance.
Weeks 8–10
Contract execution, SAP/ARIBA update, project initiation
Signature and PO, vendor master and contract registration, then kick-off, team mobilisation and first steering committee. Owners: Executive Sponsor, Procurement Operations, Project Sponsor.
Delivery months 1–3
Foundation & governance
Contract signature, PMO and steering committee, kick-off workshops, requirements validation, architecture and security design, EMEA data centre setup.
Delivery months 4–9
Build & configure — Finance and HR
GL, AP/AR, multi-currency and EMEA localisation; employee data, payroll, time & attendance, performance; integrations and access controls.
Delivery months 10–15
Testing & training — Finance and HR
SIT, UAT, performance and security testing, data cleansing, training for 350 users across EMEA. Milestone: UAT sign-off.
Delivery month 18
Finance & HR go-live
Cutover dry runs, production setup, go-live readiness, then eight weeks of hypercare.
Delivery months 19–21
CRM build & configure
Customer data, sales pipeline, marketing automation, service ticketing and integration back to Finance/HR (Option D phasing).
Delivery month 24
CRM go-live and programme closure
CRM testing, training and go-live; stabilisation, knowledge transfer to Contoso IT, closure and lessons learned.

Risk register from internal evidence · owners as recorded

RiskSeverityOwnerImpact & evidenceMitigation on record
ERP budget overrun High Corey Gray + Finance Director Lowest compliant bid is €390k against a €250k budget (+€140k). The budget is 36% below the stated EMEA market range of €350k–€500k for a 350-user Finance/HR/CRM scope, so a budget increase or scope reduction is described as mandatory. Option D hybrid: phased CRM (−€50k), 280 initial users (−€30k), 10–15% negotiated discount (−€40k–€60k).
Decision paralysis on vendor award High Corey Gray (Procurement Lead) The evaluation was issued on 26 Feb 2026 and still ends with three unanswered approval checkboxes. Every downstream milestone — notifications, negotiation, contract, kick-off — is sequenced from that decision. Confirm the three decisions, then trigger the Week 1 notification pack.
CloudFirst technical non-compliance Medium Procurement / Technical evaluation Batch-only nightly inventory against a real-time requirement, REST API with read-only writes requiring legacy SOAP, automated PO generation roadmap-dependent to Q4 2026, no SLA penalty clauses, SOC 2 Type II missing and ISO 27001 pending. Disqualify immediately — described as non-negotiable.
IntegraPro roadmap dependency Medium Procurement / Legal Supplier portal not available until Q3 2026 and AI-driven insights on roadmap for Q2 2026; 26-month average implementation exceeds the 24-month target; only 3 EMEA references against ERPMax's 12. Hold as reserve only, subject to contractual portal guarantee, ≥25% cost reduction and full SOC 2 report.
Integration SOW / compliance gap Medium Corey Gray The integration-services RFP is compliant but the SOW template is missing, and no EcoVadis or CreditSafe ratings exist for Zava Trading, Contoso Supplies or Fabrikam — leaving vendor risk unrated. Upload SOW template; obtain third-party ratings before award.
Connector data integrity High Corey Gray ServiceNow connector flagged as a compliance risk (21 Aug) and Jira connector as a data integrity risk (12 Aug); both still open in the 6 Sep digest. Programme reporting drawn from those systems may be stale. Remediate both connectors via the M365 admin portal.
Agent registration automation offline Medium Corey Gray (ZAG-6) The "When agent is added or updated" flow was disabled after consistent failures, and ZAG-6 (agent registration & verification) remains unassigned — governance coverage of new agents is manual. Fix or rebuild the flow; assign ZAG-6.
Compliance criteria overdue Medium Corey Gray (ZAG-5) ZAG-5, drafting compliance criteria for agent behaviour, is reported overdue — the S2P agent scale-up has no signed-off behavioural standard behind it. Prioritise ZAG-5 ahead of other ZAG items.
Stakeholder communication debt Medium Corey Gray → Adil Eli Three requests from Adil Eli are open: an update due 25 Jun, a file due 19 Jun, and the S2P agent status awaited since 22 Apr. Total 11 open tasks, 5 high priority, none blocked on anyone else. Clear the three Adil Eli items with a status and revised ETA.
Infrastructure programme opacity Medium Unassigned R400 Infrastructure and FCS Application Upgrade have no channel activity, no calendar events in the reporting window and no meeting transcripts — status is unverifiable beyond one late Planner task. Establish a reporting cadence or nominate a named owner.

External signals public benchmarks and vendor roadmap context (web search)

ERP pricing benchmarks corroborate the budget gap

Independent 2026 pricing research reports that subscription fees account for only about 40–60% of three-year cloud ERP spend, with the balance in implementation, integrations, sandboxes, storage, training and renewal inflation. That structure matches the internal €390k breakdown (implementation €156k, Year 1 licence €136.5k, three-year support €97.5k) and supports the finding that a €250k target was set below market.

flectic.com/learn/erp-cost-per-user

Per-user and TCO comparison sources for negotiation leverage

Public 2026 comparisons of per-user pricing across 21–25 cloud ERP systems, plus TCO and hidden-cost guides, provide external reference points for the Option D negotiation target of €250k–€270k and for the ~€390/user annual licensing assumption used in the user-count option.

erpresearch.com/en-us/cloud-erp-per-user-pricing
cleverence.com — ERP costs 2026: pricing models, benchmarks and TCO guide

Source-to-pay vendor roadmap: agentic procurement is moving to a platform architecture

SAP's 2026 materials describe next-generation Ariba moving to SAP BTP for open APIs and cross-suite data consistency, with Joule copilot and procurement agents positioned as the intelligent-procurement layer. Third-party trackers separate what is generally available from what remains roadmap. This is directly relevant to the Zava S2P agent target of 80% adoption and to the SAP/ARIBA vendor-master and contract-registration steps in weeks 8–9.

news.sap.com — Next-Gen SAP Ariba: foundation for intelligent procurement (March 2026)
procurementaiagents.com — SAP Ariba AI updates 2026: what is GA, what is roadmap

Agent adoption benchmarks put the 80% target in context

Published 2026 enterprise surveys report production AI-agent deployment in roughly the 31%–54% range depending on the study, against far higher rates of experimentation. An 80% enterprise-wide adoption goal for the S2P agent therefore sits well above the reported market average — reinforcing the need for the overdue ZAG-5 compliance criteria and a working agent-registration process before scaling.

ampcome.com — Enterprise AI agents 2026 mid-year report
trixlyai.com — Enterprise AI agent adoption in 2026

Caveat on external figures

The adoption and pricing figures above come from commercial market-research and vendor-adjacent publications, not audited data, and the two adoption studies disagree with each other. Treat them as directional context for the steering committee rather than as validated benchmarks.