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Multicolor Steel
Steel manufacturer and distributor switches from SAP to ERPNext

About

Multicolor Steel

Haryana, India

Pre-engineered buildings

1500+ Employees

Projects across 16 states

Used SAP ECC 6, for 12 years

Apps implemented

ERPNext
HR & Payroll

Industry

Steel Manufacturing

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

Since Multicolor provides end-to-end building solutions, they needed a system that could take care of multiple operational activities, track and record the progress, and integrate it with all business operations like Purchases, Sales, Accounts, Manufacturing, Projects, etc.


After using SAP ECC for 12 good years, they felt a need to upgrade. SAP was very slow to adapt to the new processes. Plus the poor user experience led to high training and onboarding costs. Customizations had a hidden cost to them. Something had to be done.


During the lockdown's quiet period, they decided to move to ERPNext, because it was open-source and offered simple customizations. After running SAP and ERPNext in parallel for a few months, they finally migrated to ERPNext.

Benefits

With ERPNext, they could make minor customizations by themselves because of the simplicity of the software and the UI. They could themselves, do minor customizations, and took help from Frappe's consultant ecosystem for the complex ones.

Impact

Successful on-time ERPNext go-live

Increased sales order to cash

Increased inventory turnover

  • Faster customizations with no third-party dependencies
  • Eliminated the need for spreadsheets
  • Saved $500,000/yr in software licensing fees by replacing SAP
We are not here for ERP but ERPNext is here for us. No software is perfect, but ERPNext has the capability to match and adapt to the growing needs and changes of the customers.
Dipane Gupta

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Director at Multicolor Steels

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