May 5, 2026 | New at BCG
BOSTON—Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Conduct, an AI platform for understanding and managing heavily customized ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems, today announced a strategic partnership to help organizations radically accelerate and de-risk their ERP projects in an AI-first world.
ERP transformations have long been among the most complex and resource-intensive initiatives companies undertake. The partnership reflects a shared ambition to deliver fully AI-enabled, ERP transformations and to enable customers to deploy AI agents quickly, effectively, and securely into these costly transformations, allowing innovation with unprecedented speed and confidence. This collaboration provides transparency into large-scale custom code landscapes, accelerating design and fit-to-standard analysis, enabling faster and more confident design decisions, and reducing manual effort in one of the most resource-intensive phases of any ERP program.
Combining Technology and Deep Transformation Expertise
The partnership brings together BCG and BCG Platinion's deep domain and ERP transformation expertise and Conduct's advanced AI platform, combining the capabilities needed to deliver large-scale ERP transformations significantly faster and with less risk.
BCG brings a proven end-to-end ERP transformation approach to orchestrate initiatives and capture AI-driven efficiencies, supported by experienced teams that enable clients to adopt new ways of working and scale impact across programs. Conduct provides the system intelligence and workflows teams need to understand custom code landscapes, run comparisons across systems as well as against ERP standard, and reduce manual effort across every phase of a migration program.
From Pilot to Scale
Together, BCG and Conduct are establishing a new benchmark for how large enterprises understand, operate, and transform their core IT systems while prioritizing the rigor and governance standards required. In a pilot focused on fit-to-standard analysis, teams have already generated initial process designs up to ten times faster, and achieved 50% to 80% cost savings through leaner delivery models and dramatically reduced manual effort.
“AI is beginning to change how ERP transformations are delivered, but the biggest unlock is not automation for its own sake. It is bringing clarity to the most complex and opaque part of any migration: understanding what tens of thousands of custom objects actually do. Conduct adeptly enables this, and it allows our teams to make faster, more confident fit-to-standard decisions at scale,” said Daniel Schlecht, Managing Director and Senior Partner at BCG.
“This partnership with BCG allows us to bring Conduct’s technology to the most complex transformation programs where its impact is greatest,” said Jan Philipp Haas, Cofounder at Conduct. “The combination of AI-powered delivery and BCG’s transformation expertise is a distinctive combination in the market and enables clients to accelerate execution while successfully driving organizational change.”
Media Contacts:
BCG: Eric Gregoire – gregoire.eric@bcg.com
Conduct AI: Paula Weber – pweber@conduct.ai
About Conduct
Conduct is the AI platform that enables organizations to understand, operate, and transform their large-scale IT systems - from deep analysis of custom code and dependencies, to building new functionality, resolving issues, and managing the full scope of system changes. For ERP transformations specifically, global leaders like Daimler Truck, Heidelberg Materials, and Fraport have cut project costs by 30%+, saved millions on annual maintenance, and shipped features months faster.
About Boston Consulting Group
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.
Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.
About BCG Platinion
BCG Platinion is part of BCG. BCG Platinion delivers end-to-end solutions that turn ambitious technology transformations into reality. By embedding advanced technologies spanning cloud, data, AI, and GenAI into core business processes, and integrating custom-fit, large-scale architectures, we bring business and technology closer together to empower organizations to accelerate their digital ambitions, unlock sustainable growth, and deliver measurable, purpose-driven impact.