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A Chennai FMCG distributor eliminated 5 disconnected tools and cut monthly reporting time from 4 days to 6 hours with BOS

Mid-size FMCG distributor, Chennai · 120 employees, 400+ retail clients · Full migration completed in 6 weeks; results measured over following 90 days

4 days → 6 hrs
monthly reporting time
31%
improvement in collections cycle
40%
reduction in inter-team WhatsApp traffic
5 → 1
tools consolidated onto one platform

Five tools, no single view, and month-end consolidation taking 4 days and 3 people

The business was running QuickBooks for accounting, Zoho CRM for sales, an Excel-based HR sheet, WhatsApp for order management, and a standalone delivery tracking app. Month-end consolidation was a 4–5 day exercise involving three people manually reconciling across systems. Collections were being missed because there was no single view of overdue accounts.

Single platform replacing all five tools, with AI agents for collections follow-up

Migrated to BOS Essential tier. The CRM module replaced Zoho, the Operations module replaced Excel-based order management, and Finance replaced QuickBooks for day-to-day transactions. AI agents now flag overdue accounts automatically and draft collection follow-up messages for the accounts team to send with a single click.

Monthly reporting down from 4 days to 6 hours; collections cycle improved 31%

Monthly reporting reduced from 4 days to 6 hours. Collections follow-up is now automated — the overdue collection cycle improved by 31%. The sales team's visibility into live order status eliminated 40+ daily WhatsApp messages to the operations team. All five tools replaced by one platform.

Month-end used to be painful. Three people pulling numbers from four systems, inevitably someone had a different version of the same data. BOS made that problem disappear.

Managing Director, FMCG Distributor, Chennai
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