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Zero migration

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.

5+
Systems read in parallel
3 wks
Average time to live production
9.2s
Average query response
kolossus · manufacturing stackALL READY
Tally Prime / Tally.ERP 9ODBC
Custom ERP (any database)SQL
CRM systemsDB / API
Excel production sheetsFILES
WhatsApp shop-floor photosOCR
Email-based PO workflowPARSE
6 / 6 sources connectedREADY · 9.2s avg
Why this page exists

"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.

"PROPER ERP" PATH
What they ask of you
  • x₹50L-2Cr+ implementation budget
  • x12-18 months to first live dashboard
  • xRe-train 50+ people on new software
Outcome · ₹2Cr later, dashboards still pending
VS
KOLOSSUS PATH
What we ask of you
  • +Annual subscription, mid-market sized
  • +3 weeks to first live dashboard
  • +Your team uses what they already know
Outcome · live in 21 days
What you'll actually use

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.

01 · PRODUCTION YIELD
Friday afternoon. The plant manager wants to know which production runs lost margin this week - and why.
8.1s
ERP × Tally · Wk 17 · 7 lines3 over plan
7runs over plan
Yield % per shifttarget line
M-A
M-B
T-A
T-B
W-A
W-B
T-A
Batch M-2247 · Line 3+₹1.4L+12%
Batch M-2251 · Line 1+₹98K+9%
Batch M-2253 · Line 2+₹76K+7%
4 more runs · +₹2.1LDRIVER · RM PRICE SPIKE
7runs flagged
₹4.6Lvariance
8.1sto surface
What happens next
04 STEPS
  • 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
2 days · Excel + 3 system pulls8.1 SECONDS
02 · INVENTORY REORDER
Tuesday morning. Procurement needs to know what to order this week - factoring in lead times and consumption.
5.7s
ERP STOCK × TALLY PO · 14 critical₹68.4L to order
14materials critical
HR Coil 2.5mm LEAD 10d
3d STOCK
Aluminium Ingot LEAD 14d
5d STOCK
Polymer Granules X12 LEAD 7d
8d STOCK
Copper Wire 4mm LEAD 6d
9d STOCK
10 more materials LEAD 9-14d
9-14d
indigo line · reorder thresholdTOTAL · ₹68.4L
2stop-out risk
₹68.4Lto order
5.7sto surface
What happens next
03 STEPS
  • 01Drafts POs in Tally for approved suppliers per material
  • 02Suggests vendor selection based on price + lead time history
  • 03Routes for head of procurement approval
Half day · stock + PO + vendor sheets5.7s + 10 MIN
03 · PO-GRN-INVOICE MATCH
Month-end. You need to know which vendor invoices don't match what was actually received - before payment goes out.
7.4s
PO × GRN × Invoice · April19 mismatches · ₹6.2L
412matched · 19 flagged
4123-way matched · pay queue
19held · ₹6.2L at risk
Quantity short-received7 INVOICES
Rate variance >3%5 INVOICES
GRN missing in system4 INVOICES
Duplicate invoice number3 FLAGGED
auto-routed to vendor team₹6.2L · HELD
412matched
₹6.2Lat risk
7.4sto reconcile
What happens next
04 STEPS
  • 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
Manual 3-way · skipped most months7.4s + 30 MIN
How we read your factory's stack

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.

Tally Prime / ERP 9ODBC
Custom accounting DBSQL
GST returns & GSTR-2BRECON
Vendor & sales ledgersNATIVE
Custom ERP / MRP / MESPG · MySQL · MSSQL · ORACLEDB
Production Excel sheetsREAD AS DB SOURCEXLS
CRM systemsBUILT-IN OR CUSTOM · DB / APIAPI
Scanned legacy documentsARCHIVE INGESTION · OCRSCAN
The manufacturing specifics

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.

BOM-aware multi-level queries
Reads your bill-of-materials structures from Tally manufacturing modules, custom ERPs, or Excel BOM sheets. Multi-level BOMs handled - parent assemblies, sub-assemblies, and component-level rollups all queryable in a single ask.
Multi-level +Tally MFG +Custom ERP +Excel BOM +Sub-assembly +
Multi-plant consolidation
Plants in different states with different GSTINs? Different ERPs at different sites? Kolossus consolidates queries across all of them.
Batch / lot tracking
Trace batch numbers across raw material, WIP, and finished goods - for quality recalls, customer complaints, or shelf-life management.
Shift-wise reporting
Production data sliced by shift, line, or supervisor - pulled from however your team currently records it (paper logs, Excel, supervisor app).
Hindi + regional languages
Field names, vendor names, item descriptions in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, or other Indian languages - handled natively, no translation layer needed.
On-prem for offline plants
Plant in a location with unreliable internet? Deploy Kolossus on-premise via our Nano LLM - runs entirely on your local servers.
Your first 21 days

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.

21days to live.

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.

DAY 1
Connect
Kolossus connects to your Tally + custom ERP + production tracking. Multi-system connection completed in a single onboarding call.
DAY 3
First dashboard live
Whichever question keeps your plant manager awake. First production or finance dashboard goes live.
DAY 7
Write-back configured
Kolossus can mark invoices, schedule payments, update records - under your team’s permission tiers.
DAY 14
Team trained
Each person knows the queries relevant to their role. WhatsApp support channel established.
DAY 21
Production daily-use
Manual workflows for configured use cases stop. Your team works with Kolossus, not around it.
21-day production guarantee · Most teams hit it soonerLIVE BY DAY 21
Manufacturing FAQ

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.

NEXT STEP

Ready to see this on your factory's data? Two paths from here.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much does Kolossus cost?

Our Growth tier (which covers most of what a 150-500 person business needs) is ₹20,000–30,000/month. That’s ₹2.4–3.6L/year.

Is that expensive? Compared to what? If your finance team spends 8 hours a week on manual Tally reports, that’s ₹2L/year in analyst time alone. And that’s before counting the decisions made on stale data.