No listicles, no vendor fog. Twelve guides written for owners of Indian manufacturing, trading and service businesses — with the numbers, the trade-offs and the parts most vendors leave out.
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ERP for traders and distributors — because most ERP advice assumes a factory
If you buy and sell rather than make, half of every ERP article is irrelevant to you. Here is the other half.
Do you need one, and what happens when you get it wrong.
ERP basicsWhy SMB ERP projects failERPs rarely fail technically. They fail because nobody owned the data, or the go-live date was chosen by a salesperson.
ERP basicsDo I need an ERP? 12 signs you doMost owners buy an ERP a year too late, and a few buy one two years too early. Here is how to tell which one you are.Costs, comparisons and moving off what you use today.
Buying & switchingMigrating from Tally, field by field"Easy migration" is a sales line. Here is the actual field-by-field mapping, and the four things that never transfer cleanly.
Buying & switchingWhere Tally stops for a manufacturerTally is not the problem. Asking Tally to run production is. Here is the line, and what to do on either side of it.
Buying & switchingWhat an ERP really costs in IndiaEveryone quotes a monthly price. Almost nobody quotes the other five lines. Here they all are, in rupees.Stock accuracy, counting and the leaks nobody books.
BOMs, work orders and material that leaves your gate.
What a job actually cost, versus what you quoted.
Schemes, credit, landed cost and multi-godown stock.
GST, e-invoicing and the documentation trail.
What the models do, need, and get wrong.
Custom builds, packaged software and the middle path.
What we learn scoping real builds — costing leaks, compliance changes, and the reports owners actually use.
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