Executive Summary
Sigachi Industries manufactures pharmaceutical excipients — products where a batch’s documentation matters as much as the batch itself, and where customers across regulated markets expect traceability as a condition of business.
With TEKROI as implementation partner, Sigachi runs manufacturing, quality-linked batch traceability, exports and finance on SAP Business One — one core where a batch can be followed from raw material receipt through production and testing to the export shipment it left on.
About Sigachi
Sigachi Industries is a Hyderabad-headquartered manufacturer of pharmaceutical excipients serving domestic and international markets.
The Challenge: Pharmaceutical Excipients Manufacturing at Scale
Excipient manufacturing carries the compliance burden of pharma with the cost pressure of process manufacturing:
- Batch genealogy on paper trails — tracing a finished batch back to raw material lots and test records meant assembling documents from multiple registers.
- Export complexity — multi-currency orders, shipment documentation and country-specific requirements ran alongside domestic business.
- Costing across process stages — true batch costs, yields and variances were visible only after period-end analysis.
- Plant-to-management gap — production, dispatch and finance data consolidated manually before leadership saw one picture.
The Solution: SAP Business One for Excipients Manufacturing
TEKROI implemented SAP Business One as Sigachi’s manufacturing and business core:
Production & Quality
- Bills of material and process production orders with batch-managed inventory at every stage.
- Batch genealogy — raw material lots to finished batches, linked to quality release.
Exports & Sales
- Multi-currency export order-to-shipment flow with documentation support, alongside domestic sales.
Costing & Finance
- Batch and product-line costing, yield visibility, and financials consolidated on the same core.
TEKAI — AI on Live Data
- TEKAI answers conversationally from the live system — batch status, dispatches, export order positions, receivables — so plant and management questions stop waiting on report requests.
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
- Traceability as a system property — batch genealogy is a query, not a document hunt, supporting audits and customer requirements.
- Exports on rails — order-to-shipment runs one process across currencies and markets.
- Costing in the light — batch costs and yields are visible as production happens, not after period-end.
- One live picture — production, dispatch, receivables and finance read from the same core.
- Questions answered at line speed — TEKAI turns the live data into immediate answers for plant and leadership alike.
Why This Story Matters
Regulated manufacturing is where ERP discipline pays hardest. Sigachi shows SAP Business One carrying pharma-grade traceability and export complexity in a cost-conscious manufacturing business — the reference for any excipient, API or ingredient manufacturer.
