Executive Summary
Oils and foods live between two volatilities: commodity inputs whose prices move daily, and consumer markets that expect the same product, at the same quality, on the shelf every day — with batches, expiry dates and food-grade discipline in between.
With TEKROI as implementation partner, Ramcharan runs that business on SAP Business One: process production with yields, batch- and expiry-managed inventory, distribution across channels, and costing that keeps up with the commodity markets it buys from.
About Ramcharan
Ramcharan Oils & Foods is a Hyderabad-based manufacturer and distributor of edible and non-edible oils, food products and condiments.
The Challenge: Oils & Foods Operations at Trading Scale
Food manufacturing compounds commodity economics with consumer-market discipline:
- Commodity input swings — oilseed and oil prices moved daily while costing lagged behind.
- Yield across processes — crushing, refining and packing each take their share; knowing where demanded reconciliation effort.
- Batch and expiry discipline — food products require batch-wise, date-managed stock through every depot.
- Channel breadth — distributors, retail and institutional buyers on different pricing and credit terms.
- Multi-pack complexity — the same product across pack sizes multiplied SKUs and planning effort.
The Solution: SAP Business One for Food & Commodity Businesses
TEKROI implemented SAP Business One across Ramcharan’s manufacturing and distribution:
Process Production
- Stage-wise production with input-to-output yield visibility from crush to pack.
Batch & Expiry Inventory
- Batch-managed, expiry-aware stock across plants and depots, FEFO-disciplined.
Distribution
- Channel-wise pricing, schemes and credit across distributor, retail and institutional sales.
Costing & Finance
- Costing that follows commodity inputs; margins by product, pack and channel on live data.
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
- Yields in daylight — every stage’s conversion is a system fact, not a month-end estimate.
- Food-grade stock discipline — batches and expiry dates governed by the system in every location.
- Costing at commodity speed — input volatility reaches pricing decisions while they still matter.
- Channel margins visible — distributor, retail and institutional business each carries its own truth.
Why This Story Matters
FMCG-grade discipline on SME economics is exactly what oils-and-foods businesses need and rarely have. Ramcharan shows SAP Business One delivering it.
