Who helps choose between ERP systems?
ERP Selection and Vendor Choice: What The Shortlist Report Finds
3 firms lead, appearing in 56.4–61.8% of 55 AI responses. The sample cannot separate them, so we do not pretend it can.
Three firms lead
Panorama Consulting Group, Lightbridge ERP and Third Stage Consulting Group come up most often here. They are close enough together that the order between them is not worth reading anything into.
Panorama Consulting Group34 of 55
Vendor-neutral ERP selection, implementation oversight, and independent audits for mid-market to enterprise clients.
Lightbridge ERP33 of 55
Vendor-neutral ERP selection, needs assessment, and implementation advisory for mid-market and enterprise clients in manufacturing, distribution, and life sciences.
Third Stage Consulting Group31 of 55
Offers independent, vendor-agnostic ERP selection and implementation advisory for mid-market and enterprise companies.
Based on 55 ChatGPT responses to this question, collected August 11, 2026–August 19, 2026. Firms are counted once per response. How we measure.
The ranking
| Firm | Responses | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 3 firms, 56.4–61.8% | |||
| Panorama Consulting Grouppanorama-consulting.comVendor-neutral ERP selection, implementation oversight, and independent audits for mid-market to enterprise clients. | 34 of 55 | 61.8% | |
| Lightbridge ERPlightbridgeerp.comVendor-neutral ERP selection, needs assessment, and implementation advisory for mid-market and enterprise clients in manufacturing, distribution, and life sciences. | 33 of 55 | 60.0% | |
| Third Stage Consulting Groupthirdstage-consulting.comOffers independent, vendor-agnostic ERP selection and implementation advisory for mid-market and enterprise companies. | 31 of 55 | 56.4% | |
| Tier 2 2 firms, 40.0–47.3% | |||
| Ultra Consultantsultraconsultants.comIndependent ERP selection and implementation advisory, particularly for manufacturing and distribution companies. | 26 of 55 | 47.3% | |
| John Hannan LLCVendor-neutral ERP selection consultant for manufacturing, distribution and life sciences. | 22 of 55 | 40.0% | |
| Tier 3 3 firms, 16.4–30.9% | |||
| ERP Advisors Grouperpadvisorsgroup.comProvides independent ERP selection and advisory services for mid-market companies through requirements and implementation oversight. | 17 of 55 | 30.9% | |
| ERP Researcherpresearch.com | 9 of 55 | 16.4% | |
| Mint JutrasProvides independent ERP benchmarking, evaluation and vendor-neutral market analysis. | 9 of 55 | 16.4% | |
| Tier 4 2 firms, 9.1–12.7% | |||
| RSMMid-market ERP advisory and implementation across NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, and Acumatica. | 7 of 55 | 12.7% | |
| AMIGOgoamigo.coDevelops ERP business cases with financial modeling, TCO analysis, and board-ready decision documentation. | 5 of 55 | 9.1% | |
Key findings
- Panorama Consulting Group, Lightbridge ERP and Third Stage Consulting Group lead this sample, each named in 56.4–61.8% of 55 ChatGPT responses to the question “Who helps choose between ERP systems?”, collected August 11, 2026–August 19, 2026.
- The gaps between Panorama Consulting Group, Lightbridge ERP and Third Stage Consulting Group are inside the margin of error at 55 responses, so The Shortlist Report groups them in one tier rather than ranking them against each other.
- 10 firms cleared the reporting threshold on “Who helps choose between ERP systems?” in ChatGPT as of August 19, 2026; the full table with response counts is below.
- RSM appears in 6 of the 9 NetSuite and ERP implementation partners reports published by The Shortlist Report, the widest coverage of any firm named on this page.
- No firm paid to appear in this ranking; placement cannot be bought, and the counts come from ChatGPT responses rather than from submissions.
Why the tiers fall where they do
Tier 1 holds Panorama Consulting Group, Lightbridge ERP and Third Stage Consulting Group, named in 31 to 34 of the 55 ChatGPT responses. They are grouped rather than ranked because the gaps between them are inside the margin of error at this sample size — one extra mention would reorder them, so an order would be reporting noise as a finding.
Tier 2 holds Ultra Consultants and John Hannan LLC, named in 22 to 26 of 55 responses (40.0–47.3%). The sample does separate these firms from the tier above: the difference from the leading group is larger than the margin of error, which is what puts them in a tier of their own.
Tier 3 holds ERP Advisors Group, ERP Research and Mint Jutras, named in 9 to 17 of 55 responses (16.4–30.9%). The sample does separate these firms from the tier above: the difference from the leading group is larger than the margin of error, which is what puts them in a tier of their own.
Tier 4 holds RSM and AMIGO, named in 5 to 7 of 55 responses (9.1–12.7%). The sample does separate these firms from the tier above: the difference from the leading group is larger than the margin of error, which is what puts them in a tier of their own.
The test is McNemar’s at 95%, applied against the same 55 responses for every firm. The full reasoning, and what happened when we ranked one-to-N instead.
What the sample shows
3 firms lead this question: Panorama Consulting Group, Lightbridge ERP and Third Stage Consulting Group. They appear in 56.4–61.8% of the 55 responses. The gaps between them are inside the margin of error at this sample size, so they are listed together rather than ranked against each other.
64 firms were named at least once across the sample. 10 of them cleared the threshold of 2 responses and appear above; the rest were named once and are inside the noise.
How to read this
Firms are grouped into tiers, not ranked one to fifteen. A tier holds every firm whose 95% confidence interval overlaps the leader's, which is a long way of saying the sample cannot tell them apart. Order within a tier is arbitrary — read the counts, not the position.
Share is the percentage of responses that named the firm — not a quality score. A firm scoring low here may be excellent and simply under-written about online, which is a finding about its visibility rather than its work.
The same question was asked repeatedly because AI assistants do not answer identically twice. A single response would tell you almost nothing.
What this measurement does not tell you
- It is not a quality ranking. Share reflects how much has been written about a firm online, which is what an AI assistant reads. A capable firm nobody writes about scores low here.
- It is a reading from a date range, not a permanent standing. This sample was collected August 11, 2026–August 19, 2026; models change and so do their answers.
- It covers ChatGPT only. Other assistants answer differently, and we do not extrapolate across engines we have not measured.
- Order within a tier is arbitrary. Read the counts, not the position. Why we use tiers.
Cite this report
The Shortlist Report. (2026). ERP Selection and Vendor Choice: What The Shortlist Report Finds. The Shortlist Report. https://www.shortlistreport.com/article/erp-selection-advisors
Underlying counts: CSV · JSON. Every answer they were counted from: plain text · JSON. All reusable under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.