Project Details and Executive Summary
In today's high-velocity enterprise environment, off-the-shelf ERP solutions can restrict workflow design, introduce significant subscription costs based on the number of users and install bloatware that no single user will ever require. For one top multi-national manufacturing and supply chain enterprise, lack of visibility and siloed departmental software prevented employees from managing daily workflows.
Kkeydos was brought into the engagement to deliver complete end-to-end Custom Custom ERP Development that centered the company’s business around the workflow. As such Kkeydos designed, and then developed, a cloud-native ERP system with unrivalled performance, which seamlessly integrated production planning, procurement, inventory, accounting and business analytics reporting all within a single high performance enterprise management system.
Project Scope & KPIs
Through customized, targeted ERP development; Kkeydos' system helped transform the company by enabling significant operational measures such as:
75% reduction in process bottlenecks, streamlining cross department operation within purchasing, stores, and accounts departments that ultimately removed all manual re-key of information in between processes.
100% real-time data synchronization API feeds push information instantly to sales orders, jobs in progress and stock levels, etc.
40% less operating costs (custom solution vs legacy per-user licensing system).
99.99% availability of the enterprise system hosted in a multi-tennant high-availability and high-secured cloud solution.
History of the project and industry setting:
Mid-market, enterprise-level companies have many that outgrow a traditional piece of accounting software, but finds itself inflexible when trying to manage growth using a robust legacy ERP system like SAP or Oracle requires significant custom development (add-ons, configuration).
Before undertaking the project of developing a custom ERP the client's system problems included:
Company departments were not on cohesive systems (manufacturing on one system, QC and production management on another, warehouse management and inventory on another, sales on another). This provided for lack of clear communication between teams.
Physical counts of inventory were drastically different from software counts, and these differences were the direct cause for many delays in product delivery fulfillment.
Cost and time for adapting "off-the-shelf" software to our specific needs were astronomical through third-party consultants and extensive development.
Executives had no simple, single-pane overview to the company's financial and operations health: this problem led to issues in rapid decision-making.
Kkeydos End-to-End Custom Application
A. Customized Workflow Architecture & Core Modules
Engineered & built custom modules for all major manufacturing processes: Production Management, Gate Inward/Outward, Job Work, Quality Control & Accounts.
Smart inventory and store synchronized with barcode ledgering and low stock warnings thus controlling material shortages.
End-to-End workflow automation for purchase requisitions to automated purchase orders with a structured vendor analysis, scoring, and feedback model.
B. Single Platform for Analytics & Role Specific Workflow Environments
Executive real time dashboards visualizing revenue, pipeline order statuses, pending approval requests and shop floor production statistics using interactive graphical analytics.
Rigid user roles, and permission settings through Role Based Access Control(RBAC), that restricts data accessibility strictly within employee's departmental and required data space.
One click document and PDF report generations, including: GST Bills, Purchase Orders, Quality certificates with digital stamps and Audit trails, using a one-click report generation service.
C. Cloud Infrastructure & Enterprise Grade Security
Robust backend developed using Node.js/Python microservices architecture coupled with high performing Cloud relational databases ensuring lightning fast query processing.
Bank grade encryption with end to end security protection for financial ledgers and critical enterprise data assets.
System Transformation: Off-the-Shelf vs. Custom ERP Development
Workflow Adaptability
Off-the-Shelf ERP: Forces your business to adapt its actual practices in order to fit the available features of ready-made software.
Custom ERP Development: Designed to the 100% pre-proven current business practices of your company.
Cost & Licensing Structure
Off-the-Shelf ERP: Extremely pricey per-user monthly/annual ongoing subscriptions which escalate significantly per each user.
Custom ERP Development: Large one-time upfront investment, 0% monthly per-user licensing cost in software terms.
System Complexity & Bloat
Off-the-Shelf ERP: Buried beneath thousands of unused features in the system; system slow, difficult for staff to comprehend/learn.
Custom ERP Development: Minimal, quick UI containing all business only required and functional features.
Data Ownership & Integration
Off-the-Shelf ERP: No clear access to databases, integration with external systems requires purchases.
Custom ERP Development: Entire software will have 100% intellectual property rights belonging to you and will use REST APIs the way you want.
Our Engineering approach
Agile and business-focused custom ERP development:
Business Process mapping & Discovery – Mapping every step of operational process flows and approval workflows and identifying pain points throughout every department.
Data Schema & Architecture design – designing relational data schema to manage multi-entity complex transactions without a minute of speed slow down.
UI/UX & Interaction Prototyping design – clean and easy to navigate UI/UX screens to minimize employee training and on-boarding time.
Full-Stack Development & Module coding – building the back-end logic & infrastructure, secured AP I and responsive web front end dashboard.
Deployment, Migration & maintenance – ensuring smooth migration of legacy data to the new ERP, training personnel, and deploying across the clouds with ongoing support.
Why Choose Us for Custom ERP development?
Most Popular FAQs
Q1 What are the top advantages of Custom ERP development in comparison with out-of-the-box solution?
Ans A custom enterprise ERP development results in a software tailor-made to your unique working processes while avoiding redundant license fees, bloated software, and rigid routine regulations.
Q2 How much time should it take for a custom ERP development project with Kkeydos?
Ans Typically, our custom enterprise ERP development is accomplished within 8 to 14 weeks starting from the discovery session up to go-live date and usage of all modules.
Q3 Is custom ERP software able to communicate with other software applications?
Ans: Yes. Custom ERP solutions at Kkeydos feature contemporary RESTful APIs, an open GraphQL API-based layer, that facilitate its perfect functioning with other solutions including the likes of third-party CRM system, various payment solutions, any B2B commerce platform, etc.
Q4 Is Custom ERP Development right for SMEs?
Ans: Definitely Yes. When choosing Kkeydos’ custom enterprise ERP development for your SME, you don’t have to pay for software licences every month to each employee, but at the same time create just the necessary system.
Q5 How can we migrate our data from previous systems and excel sheets?
Ans Kkeydos engineers will implement custom designed ETL pipelines that let you cleanse, test, and securely transfer any of your historical excel files or legacy databases to the custom enterprise ERP.
Q6: Can field teams or the factory floor use the custom ERP on a mobile device?
Ans: Yes. Every custom ERP created by Kkeydos has responsive web front-ends that fully adapt to the screens of your smartphones or can be linked with native Android and iOS mobile apps.
Q7: How does Kkeydos provide corporate data security with custom ERP systems?
Ans: We provide bank-grade SSL/TLS data security along with role-based access controls (RBAC), multi-factor authentication (MFA) and a dedicated secure cloud database housed in secure and certified cloud servers.
Q8: Can custom ERP be scaled as we launch new branches or factory units?
Ans: Yes. All ERP systems created by Kkeydos feature a scalable cloud-based architecture (AWS/Azure) and microservices model that allows you to expand seamlessly in terms of multiple branches, entities, and currencies.
Q9: Who will retain the rights to the source code and intellectual properties upon completing the custom ERP construction?
Ans: Full rights, intellectual property, and source code exclusively belong to the client after ERP development. There are no recurring software licensing fees or vendor lock-ins.
Q10: How do I begin a Custom ERP Development process at Kkeydos?
Ans: Simply contact our solution architects from the contact page at https://www.kkeydos.com/contact-us and schedule a technical deep-dive call with our implementation specialists.
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