Engineering, Made to Order

Executive Summary

Suri Engineers builds food processing and grain milling machinery — engineer-to-order work where every project is its own bill of materials, its own timeline, and its own cost story, followed by years of installation, spares and service.

With TEKROI as implementation partner, Suri Engineers runs that project reality on SAP Business One: project-wise production and costing, procurement of made and bought parts, and the after-market of spares and service — the machine’s whole life on one core.

About Suri Engineers

Suri Engineers is a Hyderabad-based manufacturer of food processing and grain milling machinery, supplying and supporting mills and processors.

The Challenge: Engineer-to-Order Machinery Manufacturing

Engineer-to-order manufacturing defeats systems built for repetitive production:

• Every order an engineering exercise — project-specific BOMs and drawings meant standard-product assumptions didn’t fit.
• Long build cycles — WIP tied up cash for months, with true project cost known only at the end.
• Made and bought together — fabricated components and procured parts had to converge on the same delivery date.
• The after-market — installation, spares and service revenue ran on memory and files rather than the system that built the machine.

The Solution: SAP Business One for Machine Building

TEKROI implemented SAP Business One around the project, not the product:

Project Manufacturing

• Order-specific BOMs and production orders with project-wise WIP and cost accumulation.

Procurement

• Bought-out and fabricated parts planned and tracked against project timelines.

Spares & Service

• Installed-base records with spares inventory and service billing connected to the original project.

Finance

• Project profitability from quotation to final bill, 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

• Project cost, while it matters — cost accumulation is visible during the build, when decisions can still change it.
• Delivery convergence — made and bought parts planned against the same project dates.
• The after-market captured — spares and service become tracked revenue on the machine’s own record.
• Quote-to-profit clarity — each project’s true margin is known, informing the next quotation.

Why This Story Matters

Engineer-to-order is where ERPs go to fail. Suri Engineers shows SAP Business One shaped around projects instead of products — the reference for machinery builders and fabricators.