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Chennai managements receive plenty of reports and few answers; dashboards drawn live from the ERP show collections, utilisation and job margin while there is still time to act.
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Banking & financial services
Portfolio dashboards for lenders: disbursals, collections efficiency, overdue buckets by branch and officer, yield by product, and early-warning lists, refreshed daily from the loan system for the credit and collections heads.
IT & software services
Utilisation and bench by practice, project margin from timesheets and billing, revenue by client and currency, receivable days, and hiring against plan, giving OMR and Adyar services firms a current view between quarterly reviews.
Ports & logistics
Job profitability by customer and trade lane, unbilled jobs and accruals, container dwell and detention exposure, vehicle utilisation, and receivables by account manager, for forwarders and CFS operators working through the two ports.
Most Chennai companies are not short of data. The finance company has every loan and receipt in its system. The software firm has timesheets going back years. The forwarder in the Tondiarpet zone has a record of each container handled. What is missing is a way to see it. Reports are prepared by an analyst in Excel, arrive a week after the period closes, and differ depending on who prepared them.
Our business intelligence work is built on Frappe Insights, the open-source analytics tool that sits beside ERPNext. Managers get role-based dashboards that refresh from live data, drag-and-drop charts they can build without code, KPI tracking, drill-down from a headline number to the transactions behind it, scheduled reports by email, and the ability to combine ERPNext data with other databases.
Case studies
Indus Motor Company Private Limited
Indus Motor — ERPNext Cut Stock-Outs 40% Across Showrooms
Kera Cabs
Kera Cabs — 55% of Bookings Moved Off the Phone and Into the App
BrahMos Aerospace Thiruvananthapuram Ltd (BATL)
BrahMos (BATL) — Secure, Auditable ERPNext Finance & Procurement
Sales, finance and operations each bring their own revenue figure to the review meeting, and the first half hour goes in reconciling them. Dashboards that read from one database, with definitions agreed once, end that argument and return the time to decisions.
By the time the management pack is compiled, the period it describes is well in the past. Live dashboards show receivables ageing, order book, stock and cash today, and the formal pack becomes a snapshot of something the directors have already seen.
Bright graduates in Madras finance teams spend their days exporting and formatting. Scheduled reports and self-service charts remove that routine, and the same people can be asked the more useful question of why a number moved.
An example
Tuesday morning review at a precision engineering company in Ekkattuthangal. The managing director opens one dashboard on the boardroom screen instead of three spreadsheets. Job margin by customer for the month sits at the top; one long-standing customer has slipped into the red, and a click shows why: rejections on a single part number, booked on the work orders last week. Receivables ageing is next, sorted by account manager, with the overdue list already emailed to each of them at seven that morning. Unbilled jobs show two dispatches from Friday with no invoice yet. Nobody argues about whose number is right, because there is only one. The meeting ends early, with three decisions and the production head walking to the shop floor to look at that part.
Dashboards are built remotely and iteratively. We agree the first set of measures with your management on a call, connect Insights to your ERPNext or other database, and share working dashboards within the first review cycle. A workshop in Chennai with department heads is useful early on, since agreeing definitions is a conversation best held in one room.
Discovery. The decisions you make, the figures behind them and where those figures live.
Blueprint and fixed scope. A clear plan, the deliverables and the timeline, agreed in writing before configuration starts.
Configuration. Dashboards and reports built from your ERP and other sources, with the right access.
Data migration. Your data sources connected and the figures checked against your own reports.
Training, go-live and support. Your team tests on real data, we stand beside you at launch, then support continues under a plan.
The scope and timeline are agreed in writing before work starts.
Yes. Frappe Insights connects to common databases such as MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL, so data from other applications can be analysed. Where a system allows only exports, we set up a scheduled load into a reporting database.
Yes. After a short training, finance and operations leads can create charts and dashboards with the visual query builder. We set up the underlying data models and permissions so that they work with clean, governed data.
Standard reports answer fixed questions about one module. Dashboards combine sales, stock, finance and operations, show trends over time, and let a user drill from a total to the entries behind it, without asking IT for a new report.
After a first conversation about the decisions you make, the figures you need and where they live, we agree the scope and send you a written quotation. The price, the deliverables and the timeline are fixed against that scope before any work starts, so nothing grows without your sign-off.
You speak to someone who does this work, not a call centre. They ask about the figures you check every week and where they come from. If it looks like a fit, we agree the scope and put it in writing, with the timeline, before any work starts. If it does not, we tell you.
Engineering cluster, Ekkattuthangal-Ambatturcluster
Soft-intervention cluster (2008-09) covering engineering units in Ekkattuthangal and Ambattur; a common facility centre for the Ambattur engineering cluster is also listed under MSE-CDP.
Engineering units serving vehicle makers, with job costing, rejections and customer schedules that only make sense side by side. Job margin by customer is the first dashboard they ask for.
Source: dcmsme.gov.inTondiarpet zonelocal body
The zone beside the harbour where forwarders and CFS operators keep their offices. Container dwell, detention exposure and unbilled jobs are their daily blind spots.
Adyar zonelocal body
Home to the Taramani campuses and the services firms around them. Utilisation, bench and project margin are what their partners want to see between quarterly reviews.
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Kochi (Kadavanthra & Infopark) · Thiruvananthapuram · across India & overseas · In business since 2011