Esper Bionics is a Ukrainian company that develops high-tech bionic prostheses. The main product is Esper Hand, a bionic prosthetic arm with artificial intelligence elements that adapts to the user's movements. The company also creates Esper Control (a brain-computer interface) and Esper Platform (a cloud-based platform for device personalization). Esper Hand has already been recognized internationally: the prosthesis received the Red Dot Best of the Best Award 2022 for design.
To further scale the business, increase process controllability and transparency at all levels, the Esper Bionics team chose to implement Odoo ERP systems in partnership with ToDo.
ToDo has automated the company's key areas of production, logistics, finance, CRM, inventory, document management, and HR. The project also included flexible customization of end-to-end analytics, which provides management with up-to-date data for decision-making. The cooperation has become an example of how a modern European ERP platform allows fast-growing startups to confidently scale and ensure high quality internal processes in accordance with international standards.
Why did Esper Bionics choose Odoo?
The company was looking for a solution for complex automation of the:
- high level of data protection;
- flexible customization for the specifics of the startup;
- integration with other platforms;
- open-source support and international trust.
According to the customer's representatives, Odoo met all these criteria.
"It was a joint decision of the entire team, as we are actively growing as a startup and need a single space to unify processes, minimize the human factor, and digitalize. Previously, we worked with Google Docs and spreadsheets, which complicated our operations." – Esper Bionics.
What tasks did you plan to solve?
- Eliminating the human factor
- Refusal of ineffective tools (Google Sheets, Word)
- Creating a single space for internal communication
- Planning, task management, departmental consolidation
It worked with Odoo:
- centralize communication;
- simplify access to information;
- avoid duplication of processes.
What is automated with Odoo?
- Internal communications between departments involved in production
- Movement of goods and materials
- Distribution of tasks between teams
- Integration of accounting with BAS
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About the interim results: "We have reduced the time spent on creating and completing tasks by automating the movement of goods and materials within the company. Also, internal communication has become faster because everything is in one system."
About the most useful features of Odoo: "The complexity of the system. This was the main advantage for us."
On the challenges of implementation: "Adapting to the new system was not without its challenges, but we took it as a challenge and quickly integrated the changes. Even our business processes have changed: we adapted something internally and something in the system."
Result
To-Do helped Esper Bionics to start its digital transformation by implementing the Odoo ERP system to manage key business processes: production, supply, sales, finance, and customer relations. The project has become an example of how a modern European ERP platform helps high-tech businesses grow, scale, and build transparent internal processes even in a dynamic startup environment.
This is just the beginning, and upon completion of all stages, we will share quantitative results and a detailed analysis of the implementation.
