India, Sept. 4 -- Enterprise resource planning (ERP) modernisation rarely ends with the installation of a newer platform. Companies can move to a modern ERP and still carry forward years of customisation, disconnected applications, inconsistent data, and processes built around older ways of working.

That was the challenge facing Solar Industries India Limited as it expanded across industrial explosives, detonators, and defence products.

The company had already moved to SAP S/4HANA, but the migration had not removed all the complexity accumulated around its earlier ERP environment. Several third-party applications continued to support processes across sales, distribution, and transport, leaving Solar Industries with a technology landscap...