Your ERP renewal quote was how much?
SYSPRO, SAP Business One, Sage X3. SA manufacturers pay a fortune for ERP, MRP, CAD, and shop-floor software most of which has mature open source alternatives. Odoo ERP, FreeCAD, Apache OFBiz, and Dolibarr run real factories worldwide.
Three pains specific to manufacturing.
ERP licence renewals at USD parity
SAP Business One and SYSPRO quote in dollars. Every rand weakening is a margin compression you can't pass to customers.
CAD licences per-seat, per-year, forever
AutoCAD and SolidWorks seats at R20k to R50k per year each. A 10-engineer office bleeds half a million annually.
Shop-floor PLC software locked to vendors
Allen Bradley and Siemens software is a captive market. Open source SCADA and OPC UA stacks exist and work in harsh environments.
Your typical stack
About R3 211 800 a year.
Manufacturing firms typically run this stack. Click any tool to see the open source replacement and the migration plan.
What we do for manufacturing
Savings is just the start.
Manufacturingfirms also come to us for the security, compliance, and build work that goes with the stack swap. Here's what that usually looks like.
The things your sector cares about.
BOM and traceability integrity
Self-hosted ERP gives you unlimited BOM revisions and full serial-number traceability without per-transaction fees.
OT/IT convergence security
Factory floor connected to office network is a ransomware vector. Imbertech segments the network and hardens both sides.
Audit trails for ISO 9001 and 14001
Open source ERP and document management produce the same audit evidence as the expensive tier, without the licence bill.
Free audit. No pitch.
A 30-minute call. We look at your current stack, your headcount, your compliance posture. You get a written assessment with exact Rand numbers. You decide from there.