Building the Digital Backbone:
How Odoo ERP is Powering Our Next Phase of Growth
As we expanded rapidly across India, our operational infrastructure underneath was beginning to strain. Finance operated on Tally. Procurement ran on a legacy Odoo 14 instance. Engineering, O&M, HR, and Finance were spread across disconnected tools, with critical workflows moving through email chains, spreadsheets, and WhatsApp threads.
Scaling became a challenge that required more than good teams and ambitious targets. It required a digital backbone that connects every core function into a single operational system, and that meant choosing the right Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
An ERP integrates the organisation’s core workflows into a unified system. Processes such as procurement-to-pay, inventory tracking, project operations, and financial reporting move through one shared platform rather than fragmented tools and manual coordination.
For our organisation, this integration was especially critical for Procurement-to-Pay, one of the most operationally intensive workflows. Engineers requesting equipment, procurement teams sourcing vendors, and finance processing payments now operate within a single structured system instead of parallel processes.
When evaluating ERP platforms, the conventional path would have been to adopt an enterprise vendor such as SAP. While powerful, such systems typically involve licensing costs exceeding ₹1 crore annually, before implementation and customisation costs.
Instead, we took a bolder path.
We chose to build our foundation on Odoo 17, a powerful open-source platform that offered the flexibility to design workflows tailored to our operational needs while significantly reducing long-term licensing costs.
Getting here wasn’t just a simple “software update.” Legacy workflows were re-engineered, business rules were standardised, and teams across multiple locations had to transition to new digital processes.
Over the course of 18 months, the Software Division led the implementation, coordinating system development, data migration, and organisation-wide change management.
The impact of the transformation became visible almost immediately after the migration. Within eight months of go-live, the new Odoo 17 platform processed more than 4,500 purchase orders. For perspective, the previous system required nearly four years to process 11,500 orders.
We didn’t just build for speed; we built for enterprise-grade security. Working directly with KPMG auditors, we re-engineered our processes to bake strict ITGC compliance right into the system’s DNA.
Today, as we await the final formal confirmation of our ITGC compliance, we are proving a massive point: our agile, open-source Odoo 17 ERP operates at the exact same elite performance and security standards as the most expensive, industry-leading software providers on the market.
