🏭 Success Story: RITNOA Transforms Manufacturing Efficiency by Migrating from Epicor to Odoo
🏢 Client Overview
Industry: Custom Metal Components Manufacturing
Company Size: 85 Employees
Annual Revenue: $12 Million
Previous ERP: Epicor ERP
Core Operations:
- Job-based manufacturing orders
- Procurement & BOM planning
- Quality control & compliance
- Multi-warehouse inventory
- Sales & logistics to OEM clients
❌ Pain Points with Epicor
Though Epicor served them for years, the company faced growing bottlenecks:
- High Maintenance Costs ($35,000/year in licensing and support)
- Inflexible Reporting – required SQL queries for basic KPIs
- Difficult Customizations – simple changes needed Epicor consultants
- Disconnected CRM & Production – no visibility from sales to shop floor
- Slow Production Planning – MRP not aligned with current capacity
✅ Why They Switched to Odoo with RITNOA
RITNOA presented a leaner, agile ERP solution using Odoo Enterprise, customized specifically for discrete manufacturing.
Benefits Promised:
- Fully integrated Sales, MRP, Inventory, Purchase & Accounting
- Agile BOM and Work Order Management
- Real-time dashboards and quality control workflows
- Custom barcode tracking for raw materials & finished goods
- Drastic reduction in total cost of ownership
🛠️ Migration Journey
1️⃣ Discovery & Planning (2 Weeks)
- Process review across departments: procurement, production, QC, finance
- Identified gaps in Epicor usage vs actual needs
- Created a module-by-module mapping for Epicor → Odoo
2️⃣ Data Migration (3 Weeks)
- Extracted from Epicor:
- 8,200 part numbers (SKUs)
- 520 multi-level BOMs
- 12,000 Work Orders (WO)
- Customer & vendor histories
- Transformed into Odoo-compatible formats
- Validated with cross-check scripts for accounting & stock balance
3️⃣ Odoo Setup & Customization (4 Weeks)
- Implemented:
- MRP, Inventory, Sales, Purchase, Accounting, Quality, CRM
- Custom Features Built:
- Shopfloor UI with barcode scanning
- Production capacity planner
- Dynamic Work Order priority queue
- Maintenance schedules for machines
- Set up real-time dashboards for:
- WIP monitoring
- Production bottlenecks
- Scrap analysis & cost tracking
4️⃣ Staff Training & UAT (2 Weeks)
- Role-based training:
- Production supervisors
- Quality control inspectors
- Procurement team
- UAT with pilot Work Orders
5️⃣ Go-Live & Hypercare (1 Week)
- Weekend switchover from Epicor to Odoo
- 100% successful migration with zero downtime
- Live issue resolution team from RITNOA on standby for 14 days
📈 ROI & Tangible Impact
| Metric | Epicor (Before) | Odoo (After) | Improvement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual ERP Cost | $35,000 | $11,000 | 69% cost savings |
| Work Order Throughput | 50/week | 72/week | 44% increase |
| Report Generation Time | 4 hours | Real-time dashboards | Instant visibility |
| Scrap Rate in Production | 3.1% | 1.6% | ~50% reduction |
| Weekly MRP Planning Time | 6 hrs | 1.5 hrs | 75% faster |
| First-Year ROI on Migration | — | 180% | — |
💬 Client Testimonial
“We outgrew Epicor but didn’t know what to switch to until RITNOA showed us Odoo. Their team understood manufacturing better than any vendor we met. Our production is leaner, inventory is smarter, and our CFO is finally smiling!”
– Operations Director, (Name Confidential) Components Inc.
🧠 Key Success Factors
✔️ Smart mapping of complex BOMs and workflows
✔️ User-focused design for factory-floor staff
✔️ Cost-effective licensing with 10x better usability
✔️ 100% visibility across Sales → Production → Invoicing
🏁 Conclusion
RITNOA INC. delivered a manufacturing-specific ERP transformation, replacing Epicor with a nimble and powerful Odoo system. The client saw significant operational gains, faster throughput, better quality tracking — and reduced ERP overhead.