We're not an SAP consultancy. We're a manufacturing company.

Because that's what buyers search for, and DEBCOR is buyer-honest. If you typed 'SAP consulting services' into Google, you deserve to find a real answer — and the honest answer is that the SAP consulting category is broken. Big-firm pyramids sell senior judgement and deliver junior execution. Smaller firms recycle methodology decks. The hourly billing model creates an incentive to grow scope, not solve problems. DEBCOR built a different shape — manufacturing company, forward-deployed engineers, fixed-bid by default, AI Platform compressing the foundational work, senior engineers on every track. We capture the search term you used because you're the right buyer; we then tell you the truth about what you actually need.

A Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) embeds inside the customer's team and landscape for the duration of an engagement and carries responsibility for the system, not for billable hours. They report into the customer's programme, attend the customer's standups, write code in the customer's repos, and leave behind a running system the customer's team owns. A consultant delivers a defined scope against a statement-of-work and exits. Both have a place; FDEs are the right shape when the customer wants the system actually built, owned, and run by people who care whether it works in production six months after go-live. The model isn't new — Palantir, SpaceX, and other product companies operate this way. DEBCOR brought it to SAP delivery in 1997 and never moved off it.

Because we manufacture software products. The DEBCOR AI Platform — orchestration, intelligence, worker, governance, and auditing agents on LangGraph + n8n + Anthropic Claude, connected to SAP via MCP — is a real, patented platform built before SAP announced the same architecture at Sapphire 2026. DEBCOR Memoria, the AI Data Engine for migrations, the AI Data Cleansing Tool, the Order Validation Engine, the Payment Card Engine, the Joule Agent — these are products that ship inside engagements at no additional licence cost, or stand alone on SAP Store. Three patents pending across the suite. A services firm sells time. A manufacturing company sells products and uses its engineers to install and operate them. The distinction matters because it changes the incentive structure: when the product carries the load, the engineering team works with you toward outcomes instead of toward billable hours.

Fixed-bid is the default for discrete, well-defined deliverables — assessments, single-track migrations, product implementations, scoped rescue interventions. Price certainty without losing engineering quality. Time and materials is used where scope is genuinely uncertain (early-stage strategy, exploratory architecture) and always with explicit not-to-exceed ceilings. Managed Services is the long-running structure: quarterly outcomes, the Company Intelligence Layer compounding client-specific knowledge across the engagement, the AI Platform doing the foundational work the team would otherwise pay senior engineers to repeat. DEBCOR does not chase change orders to grow scope — that is a deliberate, founder-set model that excludes a category of revenue most consultancies depend on. The smallest engagement DEBCOR will take is typically USD $25k–$75k (assessments, Fractional CTO advisory months). The largest are multi-year nine-figure transformations like the named public references.

Senior DEBCOR engineers, plus the AI Platform that lets them work at scale. DEBCOR fields 100+ DEBCOR engineers globally — distributed across the United States (HQ), India, Chile, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and South Africa — and structures engagements so the decisions (architecture, design, exception handling, integration patterns) are made by people with 15+ years of SAP delivery experience. The compressed work (data prep, code classification, blueprint drafting, ticket triage) is handled by the AI Platform with senior review. The Chief Architect holds every SAP architect-tier certification SAP currently offers — Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect BTP, Data Architect BDC, LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Consultant — plus the SAP Generative AI Developer credential. Holding all four architect tiers in one person is unusual even for senior SAP firms. That's the calibre of judgement at the top of every DEBCOR engagement.

Yes — and this is more common than not. DEBCOR is frequently brought in to augment an SI's delivery (deep BTP, AI on SAP, master data, integration tracks), to lead a workstream the SI is not strong in, or to perform an independent assurance read on programme health. The relationship works because DEBCOR's engagement model does not depend on owning the entire programme: senior engineering judgement on a specific track, the AI Platform compressing the foundational work, and a clean handover or run-state at the end. This pattern is especially common in regulated environments where the lead SI lacks BTP or AI depth. We can sign teaming agreements, NDAs, and joint SOWs with most major SIs.