- 01Drills into RM consumption per batch from your ERP
- 02Cross-references Tally purchase rates for the period
- 03Flags 3 batches for shift-wise quality review
- 04Generates a WhatsApp summary for the plant head
Your factory runs on five systems at once. We read all of them as-is.
Tally for accounts, a custom ERP your team built years ago, sales tracked in a CRM (or someone's Excel), purchase orders on email, and shop-floor reporting on WhatsApp photos. We answer the questions you actually need answered - production, inventory, vendor payments, GST, the lot.
"Implement an ERP first." The most expensive answer in Indian manufacturing.
Every consultant gives mid-market manufacturers the same answer. SAP Business One quotes ₹50L-2Cr. NetSuite quotes 18 months and a six-figure annual licence. Oracle quotes you a small dealership. And only after the migration, after the change-management consultants leave, after your team has been retrained twice - then you can have analytics. Maybe. We took a different approach. Kolossus reads what manufacturers actually run - Tally, custom ERPs, CRMs, Excel sheets, photographed shop-floor logs. Three weeks to live production, no migration in sight.
- ₹50L-2Cr+ implementation budget
- 12-18 months to first live dashboard
- Re-train 50+ people on new software
- Annual subscription, mid-market sized
- 3 weeks to first live dashboard
- Your team uses what they already know
Three operational questions your factory cannot answer fast today.
Now it can.
Each example crosses systems - production data from your custom ERP, cost data from Tally, quality reports from WhatsApp. One query, multiple sources.
- 01Drafts POs in Tally for approved suppliers per material
- 02Suggests vendor selection based on price + lead time history
- 03Routes for head of procurement approval
- 01Holds flagged invoices in Tally pending resolution
- 02Drafts vendor reconciliation emails with backup data
- 03Routes matched invoices to payment queue
- 04Logs full audit trail for finance review
Most manufacturers run five different systems in parallel. Kolossus reads all of them.
Your shop floor doesn't run on a single ERP - it runs on whatever accumulated over the years. Tally for accounts. Custom systems your team built. Excel sheets the supervisors trust. WhatsApp groups for shift handovers. We connect to each as it is.
Things factory-floor folks notice that SaaS dashboards don't.
The realities of running a mid-market manufacturing operation in India. We've already met every one of them.
Specific days. Specific outcomes. Not a generic "30 days to value" promise.
We've done this enough times across manufacturers to know exactly what week three looks like.
From first connection to your team running Kolossus across Tally, your custom ERP, and production tracking. No generic milestones - every day below has happened with a real manufacturing customer.
Questions plant managers and CFOs actually ask.
Yes.Kolossus connects to each plant's systems independently - different Tally companies, different GSTINs, different production tracking - and consolidates queries across all of them.
"Total raw material consumption across all plants this week" runs the same as if you had one plant. Multi-plant is the normal case for our customers, not an exception.
No.Most of our manufacturing customers don't have one either. They run Tally + custom production tracking + Excel + WhatsApp. That's the default mid-market manufacturing stack and it's exactly what Kolossus is built to read.
If you're already considering buying an MRP - talk to us first. We may save you the implementation cost entirely.
Two paths here:
One: If your supervisors photograph daily logs and post to WhatsApp, we ingest those photos via OCR and structure the data automatically.
Two:If your team enters data into Excel at end-of-shift, we read those sheets directly. Either way, you don't need to digitize everything before starting.
Yes. Each plant typically has its own GSTIN, its own GSTR-2B download, and its own Tally company. Kolossus matches GSTR-2B data to the correct Tally instance per GSTIN, automatically.
One reconciliation report covers all your plants. Mismatches are flagged per location so the right person at the right plant gets notified.
3 weeks to live production for most manufacturing customers. See Section 6 for the day-by-day breakdown.
For comparison:a "proper ERP" implementation at the same scale quotes 12-18 months. We're not replacing your ERP - we're reading what's already there.
Yes. Our Nano LLM is designed exactly for plants in locations where internet is unreliable or banned for security reasons.
Kolossus runs entirely on your local server. No data leaves your facility. Updates pushed via offline package when you choose.
Annual subscription. Tier depends on number of plants, users, and whether you need on-premise deployment.
Most standard mid-market manufacturers fit our default tier.
POC is free for 14 days on your actual data - no credit card required.
Welcome to manufacturing.
Different plants name the same item three different ways. Vendor names get spelled inconsistently. Units of measure vary. Date formats are creative.
Kolossus handles this during the first POC weekby mapping your variants automatically. We'll surface the inconsistencies for your review and clean them up as we go - without requiring a data cleanup project before we start.