Protecting a Mission-Critical D365 Finance & Operations Transformation in a Scarce Talent Market

This case study shows how Digisourced rapidly mobilised senior Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations architects to protect a high-stakes transformation programme at a pivotal moment.

Customer profile

A global B2B organisation operating across shipping, logistics, and distribution, supported by a tier-one systems integrator delivering a large-scale Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations transformation.

The programme involved migrating a heavily customised Dynamics AX environment into D365FO across 47 legal entities, covering finance, supply chain, warehouse, pricing, and retail operations.

This was a business-critical modernisation programme with significant operational, financial, and integration complexity.

Market context

Across the enterprise technology market, senior ERP and transformation specialists remain in extremely short supply.

Organisations running large-scale D365 and ERP migrations are competing globally for a limited pool of consultants who combine:

• Legacy AX and modern D365FO expertise
• Deep finance and supply chain knowledge
• Enterprise architecture capability
• Integration and performance optimisation experience

At the same time, transformation programmes are accelerating. Not slowing.

This has created an environment where the inability to mobilise senior specialists quickly is directly increasing the risk of delivery delays, cost overruns, and programme instability.

This engagement sat squarely in that reality.

Business challenge

The customer’s programme had reached a critical phase.

They were stabilising and transforming a highly customised AX landscape while simultaneously migrating to D365FO. The environment included complex integrations, heavy localisation, performance challenges, and cross-border operating models.

This phase of the programme depended on immediate access to senior-level functional and technical architects who could:

• Own blueprinting and stabilisation activity
• Manage complex finance and supply chain workstreams
• Lead integration design and remediation
• Operate confidently across business and IT leadership

The risk was not theoretical.

Without the right architects in place, the programme faced exposure around:

• Delays to the transformation roadmap
• Disruption across finance and operational functions
• Increased technical debt and performance risk
• Loss of confidence at both SI and end-customer leadership level

The requirement was extreme. Initial architect profiles needed to be identified, qualified, interviewed, contracted, and mobilised within days.

Consultants also had to be immediately available and onsite in Stuttgart the following week.

This was a high-stakes. high-pressure. high-scarcity hiring challenge.

Why Digisourced

Digisourced, were engaged as a trusted delivery partner to the systems integrator, based on a prior track record of delivering senior D365FO profiles across Germany and the wider EU.

The value was not access to job boards. It was access to a highly specialised international ERP network, and the ability to mobilise senior consultants at programme speed. The engagement was built around:

• Enterprise-level ERP specialism
• Rapid mobilisation of senior architects
• Deep technical and functional qualification
• Cross-border delivery capability
• Proven performance under transformation timelines

Connor worked directly with delivery leadership to understand the true risk profile of the programme, the non-negotiable skill requirements, and the behavioural capability needed to operate in a pressured transformation environment.

The delivery approach

This was treated as a programme-protection engagement, not a recruitment exercise.

Connor delivered through:

• Immediate deep-dive qualification across both functional and technical architecture needs
• Parallel market mapping across the EU to identify AX and D365FO specialists with true enterprise delivery ownership
• Targeted outreach to senior consultants with proven migration, stabilisation, and integration experience
• Real-time availability validation to secure consultants who could mobilise immediately
• Dual-track delivery of both technical and functional architects under the same compressed timeline

Within 24 hours, a highly relevant senior shortlist was delivered. Within days, contracts were signed. Within a week, architects were onsite and embedded into a critical phase of the programme. Speed was essential. But quality control was non-negotiable.

This required not only network access, but disciplined qualification, technical depth, and delivery confidence.

The Outcome

Two senior architects. one functional and one technical. were successfully mobilised into the programme under extreme time pressure. The impact was immediate.

• Critical blueprinting and stabilisation activity proceeded without delay
• Ownership was established across complex finance, supply chain, and integration workstreams
• Programme momentum was protected at a high-risk stage
• Delivery leadership gained confidence that transformation risk was being actively managed

The architects went on to support delivery across core D365FO modules.

Beyond the technical contribution, the engagement demonstrated something more important.

That Digisourced could operate as a rapid response talent partner in enterprise transformation environments where timelines are immovable and mis-hires are high-risk.

Digisourced’s value in this engagement

• Proven delivery under enterprise transformation pressure
• Access to scarce senior-level ERP and architecture talent
• Ability to mobilise consultants at programme speed
• Multi-role. cross-border delivery capability
• Trusted partner status with global systems integrators
• Deep specialism in complex D365FO and ERP ecosystems

Summary

In a market where transformation demand continues to rise and senior ERP capability remains scarce, the ability to secure the right people at the right moment is directly linked to programme success.

This engagement demonstrates how Digisourced supports systems integrators and enterprise customers by protecting delivery timelines, reducing transformation risk, and embedding senior capability exactly where and when it is needed most.

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