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.
R 3.21M
Typical annual licence spend
Across 8 common manufacturing tools
R 2.89M
Recoverable each year
After self-hosted OSS migration
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Sector pain points we cover
From licensing to compliance to access control
The manufacturing stack, on the books
Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.
Bars show what the typical manufacturing firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.
Typical Manufacturing stack
8 tools · R 3.21M/yr in licences
Replace
Siemens NX
CAD / Engineering · R 1.50M per year
With
FreeCAD
Self-hosted on your infra
Annual savings
R 1.35M
After hosting · approx 90% reduction
Current annual spend
R 3.21M
Estimated OSS hosting
R 321K
Annual savings
R 2.89M
Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving
Where the manufacturing bleed starts
Three things we hear on every manufacturing discovery call.
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.
How we handle the manufacturing edges