Project Assurance
The Project Assurance Stream provides independent oversight, expert validation, and comprehensive risk management throughout the entire project lifecycle. It safeguards delivery outcomes by ensuring alignment with scope, timelines, commercial expectations, system requirements, and operational readiness.
This stream is critical for complex, high-value, or high-risk automation and supply chain transformation projects, where transparency, rigorous control, and certainty of outcomes are essential.
RFP Review & Assurance
We conduct an independent, structured review of vendor proposals received through the RFP process. This ensures that all technical, operational, commercial, and compliance elements satisfy the original business objectives and documented requirements.
Our assurance review includes a full assessment of each RFP response against the defined requirements, supported by a clear gap analysis and risk commentary for every proposal. We manage and document all clarifications, provide recommendations for vendor engagement, and prepare an assurance report that supports confident and defensible vendor selection.
Design Assurance
We independently evaluate vendor designs to confirm compliance with Business Case expectations, Business Requirements, technical specifications, and operational constraints. This avoids misalignment, prevents costly rework, and ensures the future solution is functionally and technically sound.
Our design assurance includes the production of a full requirements traceability matrix linking design elements back to the BRD and Business Case. We validate future-state operational process flows, Functional Design Specifications, application interface design, warehouse system flows, and material flow diagrams. We also assess volume and throughput models and verify alignment to Business Case assumptions and ROI justification.
Project Assurance
We provide ongoing, independent oversight during implementation to ensure the project stays aligned with scope, technical milestones, safety expectations, and commercial commitments.
Our project assurance includes PMO governance audits, verification of Business Case assumptions, RACI audits, and phased delivery reviews with clear go/no-go recommendations. We assess readiness across site, software, process, and people and independently track dependencies, risks, actions, and issues. Detailed governance reporting supports steering committees and investment boards, and deviation reports outline corrective actions. After go-live, we conduct an independent performance validation and project audit.
Project Recovery
For projects at risk, delayed, or failing to meet critical milestones, we provide a rapid and structured recovery approach. We regain control, stabilise delivery, and define the path back to a viable, realistic plan.
Our recovery support includes a comprehensive project health check and implementation audit, along with root-cause analysis of delays, risks, and performance gaps. We create a recovery roadmap with prioritised corrective actions, adjust schedules to include risk-based contingencies, and facilitate stakeholder re-alignment workshops to re-establish scope, ownership, and delivery confidence.
Risk Management
Risk management is embedded across the entire project lifecycle, enabling proactive decision-making and protecting critical delivery paths in technical, operational, commercial, and integration domains.
Our approach includes the creation and ongoing management of a comprehensive risk matrix and full risk register, detailing probability, impact, severity, and ownership. We facilitate structured risk workshops with project teams and leadership, develop mitigation and contingency plans for high-impact risks, and define escalation pathways and decision triggers. All risk information is integrated into project governance reporting to ensure continuous visibility.
Value to Your Organisation
With Ethon Advisory’s Project Assurance Stream, organisations gain independent oversight across complex automation and transformation initiatives. This reduces the risk of delays, budget overruns, and design misalignment while ensuring transparent governance from start to finish. Executive teams benefit from faster, more confident decision-making, stabilisation of struggling projects, and the assurance that the final solution meets business, technical, and operational expectations.