ERP & Industry Software

Migrating from SAP to a Custom AI-Powered ERP for Hyderabad Pharma Companies

For Hyderabad pharma companies questioning SAP costs: validation, data integrity and audit history during migration, and what a custom ERP saves each year.

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

Mid-sized API and formulation companies in Hyderabad often run SAP for materials and finance, with quality on paper or in a separate system. They pay enterprise fees and still print batch records. Moving is possible, but in pharma it must be done as a validated change.

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Recurring costs to total

User licencesAcross production, QC, QA, stores and finance
Annual maintenanceOn licence value
Validation after each changeInternal and consultant time
Separate quality systemsTheir own licences
Support partnerRetainer and change requests
02

Treat migration as change control

Raise a change control, assess risk, write user requirements, qualify the new system, verify migrated data and train users, with QA approval at each step.

A migration with a complete validation file is an audit strength, not a risk.

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Data integrity during the move

Migrated master dataVerified and signed
Open batchesCompleted in the old system
Historical recordsArchived read-only with audit trails intact
AccessOld system available for the retention period
04

What improves

Electronic batch recordsQC and QA in one systemReview by exceptionAI trend monitoringNo user licences
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Cost

One-time development and validation, a free year of AMC.

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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