Engineered Components, Accounted Precisely

Executive Summary

EPE manufactures process filters and hydraulic accumulators — engineered components where customers span industries, orders mix standard products with application-specific builds, and the after-market of replacement elements is a business of its own.

With TEKROI as implementation partner, EPE runs manufacturing, variant-heavy inventory, industrial sales and the replacement-element after-market on SAP Business One — one core for the machine and every element it will ever need.

About EPE

EPE Process Filters & Accumulators is a Hyderabad-based manufacturer of industrial filtration systems and hydraulic accumulators serving process industries.

The Challenge: Engineered Filtration Manufacturing and Costing

Engineered components sit between standard manufacturing and custom work — and inherit the problems of both:

• Standard and custom in one flow — catalogue products and application-engineered builds shared the same shop floor and systems.
• Variant explosion — sizes, materials and ratings multiplied part numbers and stock complexity.
• Costing per build — knowing what an engineered order truly cost required after-the-fact assembly.
• The elements after-market — replacement element demand from the installed base ran on customer memory rather than system knowledge.

The Solution: SAP Business One for Process Equipment Manufacturing

TEKROI implemented SAP Business One around EPE’s mixed-mode manufacturing:

Mixed-Mode Production

• Standard BOM production alongside order-specific builds, each costed on its own terms.

Variant Inventory

• Variant-structured items keeping thousands of part numbers plannable.

Industrial Sales

• Quotation-to-order flows for OEM, project and end-user customers with their distinct terms.

After-Market

• Installed-base linked replacement element sales — recurring revenue captured systematically.

Implementation Journey

TEKROI’s fixed-scope methodology took the project from assessment to go-live through eight stages: assessment, blueprint, configuration, customization, data migration, training, go-live and ongoing support.

Results

• Both modes, one system — catalogue and engineered orders run side by side with honest costs on each.
• Variants under control — the part-number universe is planned, not feared.
• Build costs known — engineered orders carry their true cost, informing every next quotation.
• After-market on the record — element replacement demand is system knowledge, turning the installed base into recurring revenue.

Why This Story Matters

Component manufacturers live twice — once selling the machine, forever selling its elements. EPE shows SAP Business One running both lives on one core.