The complete operating system for
modern manufacturers
From shop floor to balance sheet — ARC ERP unifies every workflow.
Industry 4.0 Native
IoT, digital twin & predictive analytics — built in, not bolted on.
GST & e-Invoice Ready
Engineered for Indian compliance. CFOs sleep better.
Live Decisions
Real-time dashboards across every company & branch.
Nine modules. One unified ERP.
Pick what you need today. Light up more as you grow.
Financial Accounting
Multi-company books, branch P&L, e-Invoice, TDS & real-time cash visibility — engineered for Indian manufacturers.
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Sales & CRM
Enquiry → Quote → Order → Invoice → Collection — one connected pipeline with full visibility.
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Purchase & Procurement
RFQ, multi-vendor comparison, PO approvals, GRN & supplier scoring — all in one discipline.
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Inventory & Warehouse
Multi-location stock, bin tracking, GRN, DC, batch & serial — accurate inventory you can trust.
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Maintenance (CMMS)
Preventive, reactive & predictive maintenance with checklists, work orders, spares & equipment history.
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Production Management
Demand planning, MPS, MRP, scheduling, shop-floor control & live OEE — your complete manufacturing command.
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Digital Twin
IoT-connected assets, live monitoring, predictive failure alerts & process simulation. The future of smart manufacturing.
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Dashboards & Reports
Role-based dashboards, multi-branch consolidation, drill-down analytics & 200+ real-time MIS reports.
Learn moreCXOs across India trust ARC ERP
"We evaluated SAP, Oracle and three Indian ERPs. ARC ERP gave us 80% of
the enterprise depth at 20% of the cost — and the Chennai team delivered in
90 days."
— Managing Director, Precision Engineering Pvt Ltd, Ambattur
Why manufacturers in Chennai are rethinking their ERP
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Chennai has quietly become one of the most important manufacturing hubs on the planet. From the auto belts of Sriperumbudur, Oragadam and Maraimalai Nagar, to the precision engineering clusters of Ambattur and Thirumudivakkam, to the export-driven units in MEPZ and Gummidipoondi, thousands of factories are scaling faster than their software can keep up. Spreadsheets that worked at 30 crore turnover crack at 100 crore. Legacy on-premise ERPs that were implemented a decade ago feel slow, rigid, and disconnected from the shop floor. And the global giants like SAP and Oracle, while powerful, often come with a five-year payback that simply does not match the pace of an Indian MSME or a fast-growing mid-market manufacturer.
ARC ERP was built to solve exactly this gap. We are a manufacturing ERP software company in Chennai building a modern, cloud-native platform that is rich enough for a multi-plant enterprise, simple enough for a single-unit MSME, and affordable enough that the CFO does not need a six-month business case to approve it. This document gives you a complete overview of the product — its philosophy, its modules, and the business outcomes you should expect.
What makes ARC ERP a 'next-generation' manufacturing ERP
Most ERPs you evaluate today were architected fifteen or twenty years ago. They digitised the back office but never truly understood the shop floor. ARC ERP starts from a different premise: the factory is the product, and the ERP must reflect what is actually happening on the line — in real time, with the same fidelity as the operator standing next to the machine.
1. One platform, every function
Finance and accounting, sales and CRM, purchase and procurement, stores and inventory, production planning and shop floor execution, maintenance and reliability, a fully integrated digital twin, and a unified reporting layer — all on a single database, with a single login, and a consistent user experience. No middleware, no nightly batch jobs, no reconciliation hell at month-end
2. Multi-company and multi-branch by design
If you operate two units in Ambattur and a third in Hosur, or if your group has separate legal entities for trading and manufacturing, ARC ERP handles it natively. Consolidated dashboards roll up to the group level, while each branch retains its own books, GST registration, inventory, and approvals. This is the same architecture used by India’s larger manufacturing groups, made accessible to mid-sized businesses.
3. Real-time, not end-of-day
Every transaction — a GRN posted at the security gate, a job started on a CNC, a payment received in the bank — updates inventory, costing, and dashboards instantly. CXOs no longer wait for the Monday morning MIS. They see the business as it breathes.
4. AI and digital twin are built in, not bolted on
ARC ERP includes a Digital Twin module that mirrors your physical plant in software, ingests data from PLCs and IoT sensors via OPC-UA, MQTT and Modbus, and runs predictive maintenance, anomaly detection and what-if simulations. This is the kind of capability that was, until recently, available only to Fortune 500 manufacturers spending crores on consulting.
5. Compliance-ready for India
GST, e-invoicing, e-way bills, TDS, TCS, MSME payment timelines under the MSMED Act, and audit trails that satisfy a statutory auditor in Nungambakkam are all native. Tamil Nadu specific tax configurations, multi-state branch operations, and export documentation for SEZ units in MEPZ work out of the box.
The eight pillars of ARC ERP
ARC ERP is organised into eight tightly integrated modules. Each one is a complete product in its own right, and each one has a dedicated deep-dive document. Here is the executive summary.
Financial Accounting
A full double-entry accounting backbone with chart of accounts, tax configuration, journal entries, incoming and outgoing payments, credit and debit notes, and branch-wise expense control. Designed for Indian compliance and audited by Indian CAs.
Sales & CRM
From customer enquiry to quotation, sales order, tax invoice and VAT/GST returns. Built for B2B manufacturers selling to OEMs, tier-1s, and exporters.
Purchase & Procurement
Purchase enquiries, multi-vendor quotations with side-by-side comparison, purchase orders, GRNs and purchase returns — with approval workflows that match how Indian factories actually work.
Stores, Inventory & Warehouse
Goods receipt and issue, returnable and non-returnable delivery challans, multi-location stock, batch and serial tracking, and a multi-branch warehouse dashboard that shows you stock value across the group in one screen.
Maintenance (CMMS)
Equipment registry, preventive and reactive maintenance, work orders, checklists, spare parts and a maintenance dashboard tracking OEE, MTBF, MTTR and PM compliance — a genuine alternative to SAP PM and Salesforce Field Service for Indian manufacturers.
Production Management
Demand forecasting, MPS, MRP, scheduling with Gantt views, shop floor control, resource management, downtime tracking, in-process quality control, order management and production analytics. Everything a plant head needs to run a modern factory.
Digital Twin
Real-time IoT integration, asset digital twins, live monitoring, predictive maintenance with ML models, process simulation, and a quality management twin with compliance reporting for ISO 9001, IATF 16949, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.
Dashboards & Reports
Multi-company and multi-branch dashboards, company and branch-wise reports, and an analytics layer that turns raw transactions into the answers your board actually asks.
The business outcomes our customers measure
- Faster month-end close: from 12 days to under 4 days, because finance, inventory and production are on one ledger.
- Higher OEE: typically 8 to 15 percentage points within the first year, driven by real-time downtime visibility and predictive maintenance.
- Lower inventory carrying cost: 10 to 25% reduction through MRP-driven planning instead of reorder-level guesswork.
- Stronger cash flow: DSO drops as e-invoicing, automated reminders and credit control are enforced at the point of sale order.
- Audit-ready always: every transaction is timestamped, user-stamped and immutable, which means GST, statutory and customer audits stop being fire drills.
Why work with a Chennai-based ERP partner
Choosing an ERP is not just a software decision; it is a partner decision. When your line stops at 11 pm on a Saturday, you need an implementation team that can be at your plant in Oragadam by Sunday morning, not a ticket queue routed through three time zones. ARC ERP is built, supported and continuously improved by a team based in Chennai, with implementation consultants who understand Tamil Nadu manufacturing — from the casting units in Coimbatore to the auto-component clusters around Sriperumbudur to the electronics manufacturers in Sriperumbudur and Oragadam.
As one of the focused manufacturing ERP software development companies in Chennai, our roadmap is shaped by Indian manufacturers, not by a global product council that has never visited a Tier-2 supplier. That proximity is the difference between an ERP that gets implemented and an ERP that gets used.
Who should evaluate ARC ERP
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- Manufacturing MSMEs in Tamil Nadu scaling past 25 crore turnover and outgrowing Tally + Excel.
- Mid-market manufacturers (100 to 1000 crore) currently on legacy ERPs that feel slow, rigid or unsupported.
- Multi-plant groups in auto components, engineering, electronics, pharma, food processing and textiles.
- Manufacturers who want SAP-class capability without SAP-class cost or implementation timelines.
- CXOs who want a real-time, single source of truth across finance, operations and the shop floor.
Next steps
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Each of the eight module documents that accompany this overview goes 1,000 to 1,500 words deep, explaining what the module does, how it is used in the field, and the measurable outcomes it delivers. Read them in any order — finance teams usually start with Financial Accounting, plant heads with Production and Maintenance, and CXOs with Dashboards and the Digital Twin.
If you would like a personalised demo at your plant in Chennai, or a remote walkthrough for your leadership team anywhere in India or abroad, our team is one call away. ARC ERP — manufacturing ERP, reimagined for the next decade.
© ARC ERP. Manufacturing ERP software designed and developed in Chennai, India.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers from our Chennai-based ARC ERP implementation team.
ARC ERP is purpose-built for Chennai and South Indian manufacturers — covering production, finance, procurement, inventory, maintenance, and digital twin in one integrated platform with a local support team.
Yes. ARC ERP is designed for manufacturers with ₹15 Cr to ₹500 Cr annual revenue — giving you enterprise-depth features at a price point that makes sense for the Indian mid-market, without the 18-month implementation timelines.
ARC Absolutely. Our manufacturing ERP development company is headquartered in Chennai and provides on-site rollouts, training and 24×7 support across Chennai, Sriperumbudur, Oragadam, Ambattur, MEPZ, Coimbatore and the rest of Tamil Nadu and India.
Yes — ARC ERP is fully GST-compliant with built-in e-Invoice (IRN), e-Way Bill, GSTR-1/3B, TDS and statutory reports. It is engineered for Indian compliance from day one..
ARC ERP gives you 80% of enterprise-grade depth at roughly 20% of the cost. Unlike Tally it is a true multi-module manufacturing ERP, and unlike SAP/Oracle it is faster to deploy, easier to use and built specifically for Indian manufacturing realities.
A typical mid-market manufacturer goes live in 60–90 days. Single-module rollouts (e.g. only Finance or only Production) can be live in 30–45 days.
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