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Custom ERP

Operations on one spine — quotation to dispatch to payment, in a single system.

ERP has an intimidating reputation because most ERP projects are run as replacements: everything at once, eighteen months, enormous risk. It does not have to work that way. Built module by module around the process that hurts most, an operations system pays for itself long before it is finished.

The problem

What this normally looks like before we start.

01

Big-bang ERP projects fail at an alarming rate

Long timelines, frozen requirements and a single cutover date. By the time it goes live the business has moved, and the overrun is measured in years rather than weeks.

55–75%

of ERP implementations fail to meet their intended outcomes; manufacturing overruns average far highersource ↗

02

The business runs on spreadsheets nobody can audit

Inventory in one file, job cards in another, dispatch in a third, and one person who understands the formulas. It works until they are on leave.

03

The same data is entered three times

Quotation, work order, invoice — retyped at each step, each time with a fresh chance of error. The reconciliation work at month end exists purely because of it.

What we do

The actual work.

01

Start with the module that hurts

Not the whole business. One process — usually quotation-to-order or inventory — built, deployed and proven in weeks. Value first, scope second.

02

Build on a project or order spine

One record that everything else hangs off, so a quotation, its work orders, its material issues, its dispatch and its invoice are the same object at different stages rather than five disconnected files.

03

Model your actual workflow

Including the approvals, the exceptions and the informal steps that keep things moving. An ERP that forbids how you really work will simply be bypassed.

04

Integrate rather than replace

Tally stays if Tally works. We integrate accounting, e-way bills, GST filing and banking rather than forcing a rip-and-replace nobody asked for.

05

Roll out module by module

Each one live, used and stable before the next begins. No single cutover date on which the whole business is betting.

What you get

Deliverables.

  • Process mapping across quotation, production, inventory and dispatch
  • Module roadmap sequenced by pain and payback
  • Order or project spine linking every downstream record
  • Inventory, BOM and material-issue tracking
  • Job cards, work orders and production status
  • Dispatch, documentation and GST-compliant invoicing
  • Tally, banking and e-way bill integration
  • Role-based access, audit trail and reporting

What good looks like

Benchmarks.

ERP failure rate, industry
55–75%
Manufacturing projects missing objectives
73%
Typical cost overrun
50–200%
Our first module live in
Weeks, not quarters

How we’re different

Why this is worth handing to us.

Module by module, never big bang

The first module is live within weeks. You judge us on something working before committing to the rest of the roadmap.

We integrate with Tally rather than fighting it

Your accountant keeps the system they know. Almost every failed Indian ERP rollout we have seen tried to replace it.

Built for the shop floor, not the boardroom

Screens that work on a shared tablet with dusty hands and an intermittent connection. If the floor will not use it, the data is fiction.

Questions we get

Straight answers.

Do we have to replace Tally?+

No, and we usually recommend against it. Tally is good at what your accountant needs and poor at operations. We build the operations layer and integrate the two, which is cheaper and far less disruptive.

Why not buy an off-the-shelf ERP?+

If a standard product fits your process, buy it — we will help you configure it. Custom becomes right when the standard product would force you to change how you manufacture or deliver, which for specialised operations is a real cost.

How do you keep an ERP project from overrunning?+

By refusing to run it as one project. Each module is separately scoped, separately deployed and separately useful. If module three turns out not to be worth building, you stop after two and keep the value.

Where the numbers come from

Figures are industry benchmarks published by third parties, cited so you can check them. They describe the market, not a promise about your results.

Start with the process that hurts most.

Tell us where the spreadsheets are. We'll scope the first module and get it live before we discuss the rest.

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