Why Multicolor Steels moved from SAP to ERPNext?
About Multicolor Steels
Multicolor Steels has established itself as a trusted name in India for the past 30 years, renowned for its expertise in Metal Building Systems. They offer comprehensive solutions tailored to meet the diverse needs of its clients, specializing in Metal Roofing & Wall Cladding, Pre-Engineered Buildings (PEB), Steel Deck Floor Systems, Portable Buildings, and Insulated Sandwich Panels. Multicolor provides complete turnkey end-to-end services, from design and manufacturing to supply and erection.
With an impressive track record of completing 100% of its projects over the last 30 years, Multicolor Steels has become a one-stop shop for next-generation metal building products and systems. Their team of highly experienced engineers and erectors operates nationwide, adhering to the highest standards of quality, safety, and efficiency. This dedication to excellence has enabled Multicolor to build lasting relationships with customers, earning their trust and repeated business. Their commitment to quality, speed, and after-sales service ensures that clients receive unmatched support and value throughout the project lifecycle.
Journey from Tally to SAP to ERPNext
Dipane Gupta, Director Multicolor Steels, has been part of his family business, which has been manufacturing Pre-Engineered Steel Buildings under the brand name Multicolor Steels, for 30 years.
In 2008, Multicolor transitioned from Tally to SAP, and Dipane played a crucial role in internal change management, user training, testing, and implementation of SAP.
Over the years, he maintained SAP with the help of various SAP partners and faced many issues such as software rigidity, high license fees, a complex user interface, long learning curves for new teams, and high maintenance costs. With changing government laws, the system's speed of change was slow, leading to challenges like delayed dispatches due to poor implementation, costly updates, etc.
To upgrade to a new, simple ERP system that could be customized according to business needs, Dipane researched and tried many other solutions in the market like Zoho, Odoo, etc., but was not satisfied. He came across ERPNext in 2020 and tried it for one year parallel to SAP in the organization.
As a result, the users in the organization found that ERPNext had a better user interface, was very intuitive, easy to learn and understand, simple to customize according to the company’s needs, allowed for quick changes, was scalable in terms of the number of users, had no license fees, and offered many other advantages.
Finally, Multicolor migrated to ERPNext by developing its own implementation team. Having gained this experience, Dipane founded DT and is now offering implementation services to the market.
Multicolor has been successfully running on ERPNext since 2022 with modules Accounting, GST India, Purchase, Sales, Manufacturing, Projects, Inventory, User Administration and HRMS.
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