Compartment S4

India

Compartment S4

Young visionary architects from Compartment S4 streamline project management, HR & payroll with ERPNext

About

Compartment S4

Compartment S4 is a multidisciplinary design practice delivering architecture, interior design, urban design, and social infrastructure projects. With a focus on sustainable and context-sensitive design, the firm creates functional spaces tailored to the needs of people, communities, and the environment.

Apps implemented

ERPNext

Frappe HR

Industry

Professional services

modules implemented

HRMS

Payroll

Projects

Help people to use our tools

We believe our tools like ERPNext can help organizations reduce waste and complexity. Frappe + ERPNext has the potential to be a “full stack” replacement for not only ERP (SAP/Oracle) but also the entire enterprise stack (Java/.NET). With this scope, we should help organizations by providing products and services to help them manage their technology platforms.

Why ERPNext over SAP B1 / Oracle

100% FOSS

Customizable

Future-ready

Challenges

The team was growing rapidly and for the HR processes such as attendance, leave management, employee records, and recruitment relied heavily on manual & person dependent administration.
Payroll processing required significant manual effort to manage salary calculations, attendance, reimbursements, and statutory compliance.
Managing multiple architecture, interior design, urban planning, and multidisciplinary projects through disconnected communication channels made it difficult to track project progress and execution.
Project information, including drawings, consultant coordination, approvals, client discussions, and execution updates, was scattered across multiple systems.
Monitoring project assignments, employee timesheets, resource utilisation, and project costing lacked centralised visibility.
Leadership lacked real-time visibility into project performance, workforce operations, and payroll, making timely decision-making difficult.

Benefits

Centralized planning, task management, and execution tracking across architecture, interior design, urban planning, and multidisciplinary projects.
Standardized project templates enabled faster project creation and consistent execution across teams.
Integrated project costing through connected sales orders, purchase orders, employee costing, and timesheets for improved financial visibility.
Real-time monitoring of project progress, assignments, resource utilization, and operational workloads.
Centralized HR operations covering recruitment, onboarding, attendance, leave management, employee records, appraisals, and employee lifecycle management through Frappe HRMS.
Automated payroll processing integrated with attendance, salary structures, earnings, deductions, and statutory compliance.
Role-based access controls ensured secure access to project, HR, and payroll information.
Workflow automation streamlined approvals and reduced manual coordination across departments.
Unified dashboards and reports provided management with better operational visibility and informed decision-making.

Impact

Successful on-time ERPNext go-live

Increased sales order to cash

Increased inventory turnover

ERPNext helped Compartment S4 establish a connected operational platform that unified project execution, HR operations, and payroll management.

Improved visibility across ongoing projects, workforce operations, and payroll activities.
Better coordination between project teams, HR, Employees and management through centralised workflows.
Reduced manual effort & errors by automating routine administrative and payroll processes.
Brought transparency on HR policies for the employees, through the HRMS implementation
Enhanced project planning and execution through standardised templates and integrated project tracking.
Improved resource utilisation with connected timesheets and project costing.
Enabled data-driven decision-making with real-time dashboards and operational reporting.
Built a scalable digital foundation to support future organisational growth and operational consistency.

ERPNext has significantly streamlined our day-to-day operations by bringing project management, HRMS, and payroll onto a single platform. It has improved team coordination, simplified attendance and payroll processing, and given us better visibility into project progress, making our overall workflow more efficient and organized.

Manuni Patel

Partner & Principal Architect at Compartment S4

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Implemented by

GreyCube Technologies

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