Zoho for businesses in Thirumudivakkam SIDCO Industrial Estate
This page is for owners and accounts heads at precision engineering and auto component units in the Thirumudivakkam SIDCO Industrial Estate near Kundrathur. Most units here machine parts for larger plants in the Sriperumbudur and Oragadam belt. We connect Zoho so customer schedules, drawings, job work, rejections and invoices are tracked together.
Who works in Thirumudivakkam SIDCO Industrial Estate
Thirumudivakkam is a TANSIDCO estate formed in 1993, with later micro, women's and Phase-II sections, on Chennai's south-western edge. It is known for precision engineering, and many units supply machined and fabricated parts to automobile companies in the Sriperumbudur-Oragadam belt. A typical unit runs CNC and VMC machines in two or three shifts, works to customer drawings, and passes parts between neighbours for heat treatment, plating or grinding as job work. Orders arrive as monthly schedules, rejections come back as debit notes, and payment cycles are long. A Precision Engineering and Technology Centre opened here in November 2024 for design, additive manufacturing and testing.
Problems we hear from units here
- Customer schedules arrive by email and are re-typed into Excel, so shortfalls show up only at month end.
- Material moves between neighbouring units for heat treatment and plating without a proper job work record.
- Drawing revisions are not linked to orders, so parts are sometimes made to an old revision.
- Rejections and debit notes from customers are not matched to invoices, so receivables look wrong.
- Machine-wise output and downtime are not recorded, so quoting new parts is guesswork.
How a Zoho setup runs for a unit in Thirumudivakkam SIDCO Industrial Estate
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RFQ and costing
Log each RFQ with drawing, revision and cycle time, and send a quote based on machine hours.
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Schedule and order
Enter the customer's monthly schedule as sales orders and see what is due each week.
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Job work out
Send parts for heat treatment, plating or grinding on job work challans and track pending quantities by vendor.
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Rejections and collections
Match customer debit notes to invoices and follow up on overdue payments.
The Zoho apps that usually fit
Zoho InventoryTracks raw material, work in progress and job work stock sitting with neighbouring units.
Zoho BooksHandles GST invoicing, e-way bills, debit notes and long customer payment cycles.
Zoho CreatorBuilds a simple shift production log and drawing revision register for a machine shop.
Zoho CRMKeeps RFQs, quotes and buyer contacts at each customer plant in order.
Zoho AnalyticsShows output, rejection and margin by part and by customer.
Tax and compliance
Job work is central here, so we configure Inventory for job work challans when parts go out for heat treatment or plating, and track the return periods your chartered accountant needs for job work reporting. Books handles GST, e-invoicing where it applies, and e-way bills. Payroll covers PF, ESI and Tamil Nadu professional tax for shift operators. We confirm current rules and thresholds with your chartered accountant before go-live.
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Questions from businesses in Thirumudivakkam SIDCO Industrial Estate
We do job work for other units and also send parts out. Can Zoho handle both?
Yes. Inventory tracks material you receive from customers for job work and material you send to vendors, with challans and pending quantities for each side.
Can Zoho link drawing revisions to orders?
Yes. We add a revision register in Creator and link it to items and sales orders, so the shop floor always sees the current revision.
Can I see output per machine?
Yes. A Creator form records shift-wise output, rejection and downtime by machine, and Analytics turns it into daily reports.
Can we meet you in person?
Thirumudivakkam is a short drive from our Chennai base, so we can visit your unit by appointment to walk the shop floor before design. Most configuration and training after that happen over video calls.
How long does a machine shop setup take?
Books and Inventory with job work usually take three to six weeks. Adding production logs and dashboards takes longer, often six to twelve weeks in total.
How working with Flowpeak works from Thirumudivakkam SIDCO Industrial Estate
We deliver remotely from Chennai, India, and have no offices elsewhere. Harikrishnan, our founder, worked at several Zoho partner companies on 600+ implementations before founding Flowpeak in July 2024. He scopes every project, and our certified consultants deliver it.
Meetings in your working hours
Calls run on Google Meet, bookable 7:00 to 23:30 India time, Monday to Friday. That covers the UAE and Saudi working day, UK and European mornings and afternoons, and US East Coast mornings.
Your data stays yours
Everything is built in your own Zoho account and data centre. We work with the access you grant, sign an NDA and a data processing agreement before work starts, and you can remove our access at any time.
30 days of fixes after go-live
Anything that does not work as agreed is fixed at no extra cost for 30 days after go-live. After that, ongoing support is optional.
Paid by milestone
You pay by milestones agreed in your written quote. If the scope grows, we tell you and quote it before doing anything extra.
Common worries, straight answers
“Staff will resist changing habits and the rollout will stall.”
We roll out one team at a time, train each role on its own screens, and keep the first version simple. People adopt a system that removes work, so we cut steps before we add fields.
“Migration of years of historical data looks risky and slow.”
We clean and map your data first, run a test import that you check, and only then move the full history. Your old system stays readable until you sign off.
“We already pay for tools that sort of work; switching seems disruptive mid-season.”
We pick a quiet cut-over date with you and can run old and new side by side for a short period. Tools that work well can stay and be connected instead of replaced.
“Our process is unusual and off-the-shelf software will not fit.”
Most unusual steps fit with Blueprint stage rules, custom modules or a small Creator app. If something does not fit, we tell you in the first call.
Nearby industrial estates
- Guindy Industrial EstateSIDCO industrial estate, Chennai
- SIPCOT Industrial Complex, IrungattukottaiSIPCOT industrial park, Kanchipuram
- Sriperumbudur-Oragadam industrial corridorIndustrial corridor (SIPCOT parks plus private industrial and warehousing parks), Kanchipuram
- SIPCOT Industrial Park, SriperumbudurSIPCOT industrial park, Kanchipuram
See all industrial estates in and around Chennai or our Zoho partner page for Chennai.