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Notes from building SAMaGRA.
What factory owners in Pune, Nashik and Ahmednagar told us, why most ERP rollouts fail, and how the first pilot went live in three days.
Case Study
From a 10-Minute Handwritten Invoice to 90 Seconds
Our pilot wrote most invoices by hand: part number, quantity, rate, then the calculator, twice. Here is how that ten minutes came down, one stage at a time, including the stage where we made it slower.
Shivaji Kokate · 8 min read
Case Study
First Pilot Done: How a Small Fabrication Unit Went Digital in 3 Days
A 4-5 person fabrication unit was running on Excel and manual calculations. Within 3 days they were creating challans, quotations, and invoices from their phones with GST auto-calculated.
Shivaji Kokate · 5 min read
Industry Insights
Why 55-75% of ERP Implementations Fail — And What We're Doing Differently
83% of organizations struggle with user adoption, 80% are unhappy with their current system, and 50% fail on the first attempt. The manufacturing sector leads ERP adoption — but the tools are built for IT teams, not shop floors.
Shivaji Kokate · 6 min read
Founder's Journey
What 10 Years in IT Services Didn't Teach Me About Manufacturing ERP
After more than a decade of building enterprise software, I started building for manufacturing and realized everything works differently. One PO, multiple deliveries. Pricing negotiations that outlast software sprints.
Shivaji Kokate · 6 min read
Industry Insights
What Indian Factory Owners Really Want From Software
After weeks of listening to factory owners across Pune, Nashik, and Ahmednagar, one pattern emerged: they don't want more features. They want something simple that actually works.
Shivaji Kokate · 6 min read
Founder's Journey
Why I Left My Job to Build an ERP for Indian SME Manufacturers
Large manufacturers run SAP and Oracle. SME manufacturers? Excel sheets and paper registers. Not because they don't want software — what's available is too expensive or too complex.
Shivaji Kokate · 7 min read
Five minutes on WhatsApp is worth more than a forty-page RFP.
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