When the Database Becomes the Ceiling: Tuning a Finance Company’s Loan Platform Without Rewriting It
Most “slow application” complaints don’t start in the application. They start in the database — in a query quietly doing far more work than anyone realises. The screen feels heavy, users blame the network or the server, and everyone slowly learns to wait. We recently worked with a finance company whose loan origination and disbursement […]
How We Customised Odoo to Make Compliance Automatic — Even When Teams Are Busy
For most small and medium businesses, compliance doesn’t fail because people don’t care. It fails because people are busy. A GST cut-off lands on the same day as a customer escalation. An MSME payment timeline quietly passes while the team firefights a production issue. A vendor’s GSTIN gets cancelled and nobody notices until a return […]
When Production Starts Before the BOM Is Ready: Staged Release in Odoo 17
How we configured Odoo 17 to release a 160-item BOM in stages — with multiple material issues inside each stage — instead of waiting for everything to land. That was the real question from an Indian Railways electrical contractor whose Odoo 17 manufacturing setup we built at Arsenal ITC. Their product is assembled in stages […]
ERPNext V13 to V16: A Four-Version Migration Delivered in 18 Hours
Consultants quoted 45 to 60 days for this migration. At Arsenal IT Consultants, we delivered it in 18 working hours. The brief was demanding: take a client’s ERPNext platform from V13 to V16 — a four-version jump, with every schema change, deprecated app and custom build that comes with it. Roughly 20% of the system […]
One Product, Many BOMs: Modelling Discrete Bills of Material in Odoo for Precast Manufacturing
To anyone outside the factory, one hollow core slab looks much like another. Inside a precast concrete operation, that resemblance is misleading — and it is exactly where most ERP implementations come undone. We recently worked with a precast concrete manufacturer producing eight product lines: hollow core slabs, retaining walls, solid slabs, staircases, precast walls […]
From Calendar to Evidence: Using Pareto Analysis to Prioritise Equipment Maintenance under IATF 16949
Most small and mid-sized manufacturers maintain their equipment the same way they always have: on a fixed calendar. Every machine gets serviced every few weeks, whether it needs it or not. It feels disciplined. In practice, it quietly wastes effort on healthy machines while under-protecting the ones that actually decide whether the production line runs. […]
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