Quality at 4,150 Warehouses

Executive Summary

Sohan Lal Commodity Management runs one of India’s largest agri-warehousing operations — thousands of sites where commodity quality, quantity and custody must be recorded accurately, often far from reliable connectivity, for clients whose collateral depends on it.

With TEKROI as implementation partner, SLCM connected that field reality to a single core: SAP Business One as the system of record, fed by a mobile app in the field and AI/ML-assisted quality management — commodity quality tracked across 4,150 warehouses on one platform.

About SLCM

SLCM is an agri-services company providing warehousing, quality management and collateral management for agricultural commodities across a nationwide network of storage locations.

The Challenge: Quality Control Across 4,150 Warehouses

Agri-warehousing at national scale is an information problem before it is a storage problem:

• Thousands of dispersed sites — paper registers at remote warehouses meant the head office saw quality and stock positions late.
• Third-party custody — the inventory is the client’s, so accuracy and auditability are the product itself.
• Quality data capture — commodity condition assessments needed consistency across thousands of field staff and sites.
• Service billing complexity — storage, handling and quality services billed per client, per commodity, per location.
• Connectivity reality — field operations couldn’t assume always-online systems.

The Solution: SAP Business One + Mobile App + AI/ML

TEKROI implemented SAP Business One as the core, integrated with SLCM’s field layer:

Field-to-Core Integration

• Mobile app capture at warehouses — receipts, dispatches and quality assessments flowing into SAP Business One as the single record.
• AI/ML-assisted quality management standardizing commodity assessment at scale.

Custody & Inventory

• Client-wise, commodity-wise, location-wise inventory with the audit trail third-party custody demands.

Service Billing & Finance

• Automated billing for storage and services per client contract, consolidated into group finance.

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

• One record for 4,150 warehouses — field activity lands in a single system instead of thousands of registers.
• Custody you can audit — client stock positions carry a system-enforced trail from receipt to release.
• Consistent quality data — assessments follow one standard across the network, assisted by AI/ML.
• Billing without leakage — services rendered become invoices systematically, not through reconciliation heroics.
• Head office on live data — a national network visible as one operation.

Why This Story Matters

Most ERP stories scale by adding users; SLCM’s scales by adding geography — thousands of sites feeding one core. For any services business whose operations live in the field, this is what the architecture looks like when it works.