How India's largest sunflower-oil producer put eyes on everything that moves, weighs, flows and costs across four plants — and started running mornings on a live briefing instead of a Friday spreadsheet.
Kaleesuwari runs four plants and receives hundreds of tankers daily. SAP ran the financials beautifully — but the factory floor ran on something else entirely: paper gate passes, isolated weighbridge software, manual ledgers, and dozens of WhatsApp groups stitched together by phone calls.
The gap showed up everywhere it mattered. Vehicle turnaround time sat at three days. Production losses surfaced 48 hours late — long after the shift that caused them had gone home. Billing took weeks, and when a vendor's numbers didn't match, nobody could prove overpayment one way or the other.
None of this was a software problem inside SAP. It was a problem of the physical world never reaching SAP — every weigh-in, every dock, every flow meter living in its own silo, reconciled by hand if at all. RunFactory was brought in to close exactly that gap.
The approach was deliberately hardware-aware — connecting the existing Avery weighbridges rather than ripping them out — and strictly ERP-parallel: RunFactory never replaced SAP. It fed it.
Gate processing dropped from 5–15 minutes to 15–30 seconds — a 90% reduction. Vehicle turnaround fell from three days to 4–6 hours, and dock idle time is now measured for the first time.
Production-loss detection moved from 2–3 days after the fact to within the same shift. Energy is now attributed per line and per shift, so cost lands where it's actually incurred.
The billing cycle shrank from 2–3 weeks to 3–5 days. With weighbridge, flow and dock data reconciled against SAP, vendor disputes are now rare — the numbers are provable.
The founder now opens every morning with an AI Plant Pulse briefing across all plants — a live read of what happened overnight, not a spreadsheet reconciled at the end of the week.
We didn't replace SAP. We finally gave it eyes on the floor — and the factory stopped being a black box.
Start with a 90-day pilot at one factory — fixed scope, fixed fee, measured ROI.