ERP depth is real. So is the project.
At 200 people and three plants, these are the right tools — honestly. This page is for the 10–100-person factory deciding whether it needs a project at all.
What Big ERP (SAP B1 · Odoo · NetSuite) is genuinely good at
Stated first, because it is true — and because you already know it.
Everything, actually
MRP, capacity, work centres, batch and serial, multi-company, approvals — the depth is real, not marketing.
Proven at scale
When the factory is genuinely large, buy one of these. We mean that.
Odoo’s pricing undercuts everyone
₹580–890 per user per month — if the implementation goes well.
Where a factory outgrows it
The project is the product
SAP B1 in India: months of implementation, manufacturer projects commonly ₹15 lakh and up. Odoo’s licence is cheap; the partner who configures it is not.
It assumes a person you don’t have
An ERP administrator, a consultant relationship, “master data discipline”. The 30-person factory has a supervisor with a phone.
Failure is expensive and common
The abandoned half-configured ERP is a fixture of factory offices. The second attempt is sold as “re-implementation”.
Sentences owners actually say
“The consultant left and nobody knows how to change a rate.”
“We paid for SAP and still run the factory on Excel.”
“The Odoo demo was great; the quote for making it ours was six lakhs.”
What switching honestly costs
This page rarely asks anyone to switch from big ERP — it catches the factory deciding against a project. For the abandoned-implementation case: masters and balances come in by Excel, the way they went out.
What Big ERP (SAP B1 · Odoo · NetSuite) has that we don’t — yet
- MRP and capacity planning, batch/serial tracking, multi-company, multi-currency, approval workflows — real depth we do not pretend to have.
- Partner networks and certifications.
Cost ranges from public sources 2026-09-05; SAP’s India site blocks automated review — figures from analyst and partner publications.
Big ERP (SAP B1 · Odoo · NetSuite) was built for many kinds of business. SutraBook was built for yours.
Built for factories, with India’s GST native. Stock that matches the shelf, GST that checks itself, wages from attendance — one thread. Bring the Excel you already keep — judged before written.