ERP & Industry Software

Migrating from Oracle or SAP to a Custom ERP for Ahmedabad Pharma Companies

How a mid-sized pharma company can leave Oracle or SAP without losing validation or audit history, and what it saves on licences and annual support.

Purushottam Kumar Suman
Purushottam Kumar Suman
Founder & CEO, Drema AI
6 min read
Engineers planning a system migration

Pharma companies are cautious about changing ERP, with reason: the system is validated, auditors know it and a failed migration risks supply. But many mid-sized firms are paying enterprise licence and support fees for a system they use only for inventory and invoicing while quality runs on paper.

01

The recurring bill

User licences or subscriptionsNamed users across production, QC, stores and accounts
Annual supportA percentage of licence value, payable every year
Database and infrastructureDatabase licences and servers or cloud
ConsultantsFunctional and technical support on retainer
RevalidationAfter each upgrade
02

What must not be lost

Batch history and audit trails have to remain retrievable for the retention period. We keep the old system's data in a read-only archive with search, so past batches can be shown to an inspector without keeping licences active.

Archive the history properly and you can stop paying to keep the old system alive.

03

Migration plan

1. User requirement specificationWritten with QA, reflecting real process
2. Build and qualifyInstallation, operational and performance qualification documents
3. Data migration with verificationMasters and open items, checked and signed
4. Parallel runSelected products first
5. Cut-overAt a month-end, with QA sign-off
04

What improves

Electronic batch recordsQC integrated with storesFaster batch releaseMobile approvalsAI trend alerts on QC data
05

Commercials

One-time development and validation cost. AMC free for a year. No user licences.

One-time
Development cost, agreed before work starts
1 year
Of AMC included free after go-live
Yours
Source code and data, with no per-user fee
Purushottam Kumar Suman
Written by
Purushottam Kumar Suman
Founder & CEO, Drema AI

Founder and CEO of Drema AI. Builds AI systems, SaaS platforms and industry software — and writes about what actually survives production.

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