A mid-size manufacturer runs the same loop the big suites sell: win the order, make it, ship or install it, service it for years, bill for all of it, stay compliant. We build that whole loop for Indian OEMs — live in weeks, changed in days, owned by you.
SAP and Salesforce are superb products built for the world's largest companies. The question is not whether they are good — it is what a mid-size Indian OEM pays, in money and in time, to run its loop through them.
What SAP covers
SAP is the ERP: orders, production planning, materials and procurement, inventory, finance. It is the system of record for what the factory makes and spends, built to serve the largest companies on earth.
The catch: The catch for a mid-size OEM: you adopt SAP's processes, licence it per user, and pay an implementation partner to configure it over months. Change requests go through the same partner, priced per change.
What Salesforce covers
Salesforce is the CRM: leads, pipeline, quotes, and — with its service products — complaints and field service. It is the system of record for who you sell to and how you serve them.
The catch: The catch: it is licensed per user per month, edition by edition, and it does not know what your factory makes. Connecting it to an ERP is an integration project with its own cost and its own consultant.
And the third invoice nobody budgets for: the integrator who connects the two, keeps the connector alive, and bills every change on either side.
Every stage below lives in one system, with one record per order and per installed unit — from the first enquiry through every service visit, for the life of the equipment.
- 1
Lead
Enquiry in, follow-ups, quote
- 2
Order
Won deal → order → project
- 3
Make
Production, materials, procurement per order
- 4
Ship / install
Dispatch or site project to handover
- 5
Service
Complaints, AMC, preventive visits
- 6
Bill
Invoices, receivables, renewals
- 7
Comply
Licences, inspections, statutory dates
Built around your stages, not a template
The big suites give you their process and charge you to bend it. We start from how your orders, production, installation and AMC actually run — your stages, your terms, your reports — and build the system to match. Nothing to bend, nothing to work around.
Live in weeks, not an eighteen-month rollout
Suite implementations are consultant-led programmes that commonly run a year or more before the first order flows through. We scope in a week, put the first version in your hands in weeks, and bring the full flow live in a quarter — module by module, while you keep working.
Changes in days, from the team that built it
When your process changes — a new product line, a new approval rule, a new report — a suite raises a change request through a partner. Here the team that wrote the system makes the change, usually in days. That speed compounds: your software keeps up with your business instead of freezing it.
One system, no integration project
CRM, orders, production, service, AMC, billing and compliance are one system with one record per order and per installed unit. There is no ERP-to-CRM connector to buy, break and maintain — the integration project simply does not exist.
Your equipment in the field, built in
The big suites treat IoT as an add-on programme. Our device clouds are part of the same catalogue: live faults and running hours from your installed machines land next to the AMC record, so service happens before the customer calls.
India-shaped from day one
GST on invoices, TDS on contractor payments, retention on running-account bills, one-way posting to the Tally your accounts team already uses, WhatsApp-first messages your customers actually read. These are not localisation packs — they are the default.
The suite bill is not one number — it is five that keep recurring. Ours is two: a one-time build and a managed service. Over five years that difference is what "a tenth of the bill" means.
Indicative for a mid-size OEM over five years. Actual scope and cost depend on modules, sites and users; we put a real number on it after a mapping call, before you commit.
Elevator Suite runs an elevator manufacturer end to end: CRM and quotations, installation projects, manufacturing and materials, service and complaints, AMC renewals, licences and billing — one record for the life of every elevator. Elevator Cloud adds live monitoring, so faults are seen before the building calls.
The pattern transfers to any make-install-service business: pumps, panels, gensets, water-treatment plants, machines. Your product line changes the nouns, not the loop.
Can a custom build really replace SAP and Salesforce for a mid-size OEM?
For the lead-to-service loop a mid-size manufacturer actually runs — quotes, orders, production, installation, AMC, billing, compliance — yes. Elevator Suite is the shipped proof: an elevator OEM's entire business in one system. What we build is that same pattern shaped to your product line.
When are the big suites the right choice instead?
At genuine enterprise scale: thousands of seats, multi-country legal entities with consolidated group finance, or a mandate from a global parent already standardised on them. If that is you, buy the suite. Our fit is the Indian OEM the suites price and structure for enterprises anyway.
How is 'a tenth of the bill' calculated?
It is an indicative all-in comparison over a five-year horizon: suite licences for a typical mid-size seat count plus implementation, integration and change-request costs, against our one-time build plus managed service. Your number depends on modules, sites and users — we put a real figure on it after a mapping call, before you commit.
What happens to our data and the system if we part ways?
The deployment is yours: your data, exportable in open formats, and an exit path is written into the agreement. No per-seat licences means no licence hostage situation.
How long does it take to go live?
Scoping takes about a week. The first working version — usually orders and the sales pipeline — lands in weeks, and the full flow, including service and AMC, typically inside a quarter. Rollout is module by module so the factory never stops.
A mapping call takes thirty minutes: you walk us through the loop, we tell you what we would build, how fast, and what it costs — against what the stack would.