One city, two economies

Telangana is the mirror image of its neighbour. Andhra Pradesh has industry spread across a long coast with no centre. Telangana has almost everything inside one ring road. And what sits inside that ring road is not one economy but two: a very large services sector, and a small, tightly regulated manufacturing sector that punches far above its share of the numbers.

The state’s own figures make the split plain. Services are 66.8% of gross state value added. The entire industrial sector, including mining and construction, is 17.78%, and manufacturing is just over half of that, so roughly nine per cent of the economy. Nine per cent that happens to include a great deal of the country’s pharmaceutical output.

That combination is what makes an ERPNext implementation Telangana groups run unusual. The same owners often hold a services business and a regulated manufacturing business, sometimes on one campus, and the two want almost opposite things from a system. One is measured in billable hours and project margin. The other is measured in batches, quality releases and audit trails.

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Hyderabad has its own page, written around the regulated manufacturing side in detail. The statewide picture, and the services side, is on this page.

We also work with businesses in Warangal, Karimnagar, Nizamabad and the industrial belts around the Outer Ring Road, from our offices in Pollachi and Chennai.

When the decision is statewide, not local

Here the hard questions are not about distance, because there is very little. They are about running two different kinds of business under one roof and one set of books.

• Two businesses, one chart of accounts. A services arm and a manufacturing arm need very different profit and loss views, but the group needs one consolidated set. Getting the account structure and cost centres right at the start is what lets both be true at once.
• Across the road is still an export. If one unit sits in a special economic zone and another does not, moving goods between them is treated as an export and an import even though they share a gate. The paperwork, the valuation and the tax treatment all follow from that, and the system has to model it deliberately rather than as an afterthought.
• Utilisation and batch records in the same system. The services side lives on people, timesheets and project margin. The manufacturing side lives on batches, expiry and release. ERPNext can do both, but only if nobody tries to force one discipline onto the other.
• Audit trails that outlive the project. Regulated customers and regulators both ask questions years later. Who approved this, against which specification, on what date. That has to be captured as work happens and be readable long after the people involved have moved on.
• Group reporting across two very different arms. Consolidated revenue, margin and working capital where a services rupee and a manufacturing rupee are both counted honestly.

How we deliver an ERPNext implementation Telangana groups can run

KlyONIX Tech is a Frappe Certified Partner. Our head office is in Pollachi and our branch office is in Chennai, and Hyderabad is a scheduled trip rather than a drive. Discovery and go-live are done on site, because neither works over a call, particularly where a regulated process is involved. Configuration, data migration, training and support run remotely, with named consultants rather than a ticket queue.

Most implementations run eight to twenty weeks. Groups running a services arm and a regulated manufacturing arm together sit at the upper end, because the two designs have to be agreed before either is built. Settling that first is what makes an ERPNext implementation Telangana groups can actually audit against.

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