Innovative Portuguese oil and gas company Galp recently built and launched a disruption-proof foundation for innovation, despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. The ERP upgrade project, titled “shERPa,” emerged from a technological need and rapidly defined its direction towards a digital transformation and processes optimization. It soon became a wider end-to-end project with a strategic drive that impacted both IT and business, allowing the company to standardize internal processes. The move to standardize led to lower costs, faster deployment times/scalability, and agile internationalization.