LTS — Scaling IT Contracting Operations Across Africa
LTS is one of Africa’s largest IT contracting and systems integration companies, operating across more than 16 countries. The company delivers large-scale, project-based technology implementations that demand tight coordination across sales, project execution, resource management, procurement, and financial operations.
To support its regional scale and operational complexity, LTS partnered with Talents Digital Services (TDS) to implement Odoo ERP as a unified, scalable platform.
How LTS standardized and unified multi-country IT contracting operations using Odoo ERP—enabling centralized project control, integrated financial management, and seamless multi-company scalability across Africa.
The Challenge.
Before implementing Odoo ERP, LTS faced several operational and management challenges:
- Fragmented systems across departments and countries with no end-to-end visibility.
- Limited control over project costs, revenues, and profitability.
- Difficulty tracking human resources utilization and costs across projects.
- Manual coordination between sales, projects, procurement, HR, and finance teams.
- Lack of real-time insight into project progress, remaining budgets, and margins.
The Solution
TDS implemented a fully integrated, end-to-end Odoo ERP solution tailored to LTS’s complex, project-driven business model.
- Key Capabilities Delivered:
- End-to-end business flow starting from CRM opportunities through Financial Offers, Cost Sheets, and Sales Orders.
- Structured business hierarchy implemented across all modules:
- Business Line
- Business Unit
- Sub-Business Unit
- Automatic conversion of approved Financial Offers into:
- Sales Orders
- Procurement Groups
- Projects with predefined task templates.
- Full project management with task ownership, progress tracking, and milestones.
- Integrated procurement and inventory management throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ability to issue customer invoices during project execution.
- Comprehensive HR and Timesheets integration to:
- Track employee allocation across projects
- Capture actual working hours
- Calculate real labor costs per project
- Tight linkage of all costs (HR, purchases, inventory, expenses) to the same project structure.
- Percentage Of Complication(POC) implemented to track revenue recognition percentages based on project execution progress.
- Implementation of a robust multi-company architecture to manage operations across multiple countries within a single Odoo environment.
Business value
The Odoo ERP implementation delivered strong operational and financial impact for LTS
The Impact
- Unified operations across more than 16 African countries.
- Full visibility across sales, projects, HR, procurement, and finance.
- Accurate tracking of project costs, revenues, and profitability in real time.
- Improved utilization and control of human resources.
- Strong governance and control over complex, long-term projects.
- Scalable ERP foundation supporting regional expansion and future growth.
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