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ERP: when to buy, when to build, and how to avoid a two-year mistake
Off-the-shelf ERP fits about 70% of most Indian SMEs. The remaining 30% is where the money is won or lost.
- BrandKul Consulting
- 02 Jun 2026
- 9 min read
Buy the commodity, build the differentiator. Payroll and general ledger are solved problems. Your production scheduling logic probably is not.
The most expensive ERP failures we audit share one cause: the business changed its process to fit the software, and the process was the competitive advantage.
Start with a two-week process mapping exercise before evaluating a single vendor. The map tells you which modules to buy and which to build.
Plan data migration as a project in its own right. It is routinely half the total effort and it is always underestimated.
Building something where this matters? We scope in writing before any code.
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