Why manufacturers choose ARC ERP Dashboards & Reports
Outcomes you can measure in the first quarter.
One Source of Truth
Live KPIs across companies & branches.
Self-Serve Analytics
Drag-drop reports — no IT tickets needed.
Export Anywhere
Excel, PDF, scheduled email & API access.
Turning every transaction into the answers your board actually asks
The board does not want a report. It wants an answer.
Walk into any board meeting at a Chennai-based manufacturing group and you will hear the same questions, in different forms, every month. What is our cash position by branch? Which plant is most profitable? Which product is leaking margin? Which customer is paying late? Which line has the worst OEE? Are we on track for the quarterly targets? In most companies, answering these questions takes a finance team three days, an operations team another two, and a long Sunday for the management team to reconcile the discrepancies. By the time the answers arrive, they are stale and the conversation has moved on.
ARC ERP exists to dissolve this delay. Because every transaction across finance, sales, purchase, inventory, production, maintenance and the digital twin is captured in one database in real time, every answer is one click away. The Dashboards and Reports module is the layer that surfaces these answers in formats that CXOs, plant heads, branch managers and functional heads can act on without needing a data analyst in the loop.
Dashboards: the daily cockpit at every level
Multi-Company / Multi-Branch Dashboard
The flagship view for the group MD or CFO. One screen consolidates revenue, EBITDA, cash, working capital, order book, inventory value, receivables and payables across every legal entity and every branch. Filters let the executive slice by company, by branch, by region or by product family. Heat maps show where performance is strongest and where it is weakest. Trend tiles show how each KPI is moving against last month, last quarter and last year. For a group with two manufacturing companies and a trading entity, with branches in Chennai, Hosur, Pune and Hyderabad, this is the screen that replaces ten separate weekly review meetings with a single live conversation.
Company & Branch-wise Dashboards
Drill from the group view into any individual company or branch and the dashboard reconfigures to that scope. The same KPIs, the same trend logic, but contextualised — the Hosur plant manager sees Hosur’s OEE, Hosur’s order book, Hosur’s stock value, and Hosur’s cash position. This contextualisation is what turns a passive dashboard into an operational tool, because the manager sees only what she can act on.
Functional dashboards
Each module ships with a curated dashboard tailored to its primary user. The CFO opens the Finance dashboard and sees today’s collections, the GST liability, the MSME ageing position, and the cash forecast. The plant head opens the Production dashboard and sees real-time OEE, schedule adherence, downtime breakdown and quality defect rate. The maintenance manager opens the Maintenance dashboard and sees PM compliance, MTBF and MTTR trends, work order backlog and spare-part availability. The sales head sees the order book, dispatch pipeline, on-time-in-full, and the customer ageing analysis.
Personalised landing pages
Each user can customise their landing dashboard, pinning the tiles and reports that matter most to them. A purchase manager pins the open PR list and vendor performance scorecard. A quality engineer pins the defect Pareto and customer complaint trend. The system learns from usage and surfaces relevant content over time.
Reports: from operational to statutory
Related: Sales & CRM module — ARC ERP
Beyond dashboards, ARC ERP includes a comprehensive reports library spanning every module.
Operational reports
Stock ledgers, order books, dispatch reports, production day-books, downtime logs, work order summaries, vendor performance scorecards, customer ageing, salesperson productivity, and dozens more. Every report is parameterised — date range, branch, customer, product, vendor, salesperson, machine — and exportable to Excel and PDF. Schedules can be set so that, for example, the daily production summary is emailed automatically to the plant head at 7 am every morning.
Financial reports
Trial balance, profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow statement, and Schedule III formatted statutory financials. Cost centre P&Ls let the management see profitability at the granularity of each plant, line or business unit. Variance reports compare actuals to budget by line item. Funds flow and working capital reports give the CFO and the board the financial story behind the operational numbers.
Statutory and compliance reports
GSTR-1, GSTR-3B, GSTR-9 reconciliation working files; TDS and TCS returns; e-invoice and e-way bill registers; MSME Form 1 working; income tax depreciation and Companies Act depreciation registers; export documentation for SEZ and EOU units. For Chennai-based exporters, this single library typically replaces hours of monthly compliance work with minutes.
Audit reports
Statutory audit working papers, internal audit reports, customer audit responses, ISO and IATF audit packs. Each report draws from the same source data, ensuring no reconciliation issues between what is shown to the statutory auditor and what is shown to the customer auditor. This consistency, which sounds obvious, is rare in legacy ERP environments and is one of the most valued features of ARC ERP among CFOs.
Management Information Reports (MIS)
Custom MIS packs combining financial, operational and quality metrics, designed in collaboration with each customer’s management team. The traditional Excel-driven MIS pack — assembled by the finance team across two days from data scattered across systems — becomes a one-click report that the MD can run on demand.
Self-service analytics for the management team
Related: Purchase & Procurement module — ARC ERP
Standard reports answer standard questions. Real businesses have non-standard questions. ARC ERP includes a self-service report builder that lets a non-technical user — a plant accountant, a sales manager — build her own report by selecting tables, fields, filters and groupings through a visual interface. Saved reports can be shared with colleagues, scheduled, or pinned to dashboards. This decentralisation of reporting is what frees the IT and finance teams from being a bottleneck.
For more advanced users, an analytics layer supports pivot tables, trend analysis, cohort analysis and basic predictive modelling. For organisations with mature data teams, ARC ERP exposes a secure read-only data warehouse view that connects to Power BI, Tableau or any standard BI tool, allowing the central analytics team to build on top of the ERP without disturbing the operational system.
Real-time, mobile, secure
Every dashboard and report is rendered in real time from the live database; there are no nightly batches or stale snapshots. The mobile app exposes the most-used dashboards in a thumb-friendly format, so the MD travelling between Sriperumbudur and Oragadam can check today’s revenue at a traffic signal. Role-based access ensures that a branch manager sees only her branch’s data, that a salesperson sees only her customers, and that the central CFO sees the consolidated picture. All access is logged and auditable.
From insight to action
Information without action is overhead. ARC ERP’s dashboards are not passive displays; they are launchpads for action. A red tile on the receivables dashboard opens the customer’s account, where the team can issue a follow-up. A spike in scrap on a production line opens the work order detail, where the supervisor can trigger a quality intervention. An alert on a vendor’s MSME ageing prompts a payment release within the same screen. This tight loop between insight and action is what turns analytics from a reporting cost into a profit lever.
Outcomes our customers report
- Monthly MIS preparation time reduced from 3-5 days to under an hour.
- Branch-level decision-making accelerated, with managers acting on real-time data instead of waiting for central reports.
- Board meetings shortened and sharpened — discussions move from 'what happened' to 'what should we do next.'
- Statutory and customer audits closed faster, often with zero observations on data integrity.
- Strategic decisions — capacity expansion, product line additions, branch consolidation — supported by real data instead of intuition.
Why ARC ERP for dashboards and reports
Many ERPs treat reporting as an afterthought, expecting customers to bolt on a separate BI tool. ARC ERP treats it as a first-class capability of the platform, because we believe the value of an ERP is realised when its data is used to make better decisions every day, not just when it is captured in transactions. As one of the focused manufacturing ERP software development companies in Chennai, our analytics layer has been shaped by the actual board agendas of our manufacturing customers across Tamil Nadu and India, ensuring it speaks the language of CXOs, not of database engineers.
If your management team is still spending more time preparing MIS than discussing it, ARC ERP’s Dashboards and Reports module will give you back that time, and the answers, in real time. The board will notice. The bottom line will follow.
Closing thought across the suite
Related: Inventory & Warehouse module — ARC ERP
Across all eight modules — Finance, Sales, Purchase, Inventory, Maintenance, Production, Digital Twin, and Dashboards & Reports — ARC ERP is built on one consistent belief: an Indian manufacturer in Chennai deserves the same caliber of software as a Fortune 500 company in Frankfurt, designed for Indian realities, supported locally, and priced for ambitious growth. If that belief resonates with your business, we would welcome the chance to show you the product on your shop floor.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers from our Chennai-based ARC ERP implementation team.
ARC ERP ships with 200+ ready-made reports across finance, sales, purchase, inventory, production and maintenance — plus a drag-and-drop report builder for custom analytics.
Yes. The multi-branch dashboard consolidates KPIs across unlimited companies and branches in real time.
Yes. Every report can be exported to Excel, PDF or CSV, and scheduled to land in your inbox daily, weekly or monthly.
