How Tesla Built Its Own ERP in 4 Months Using Low‑Code and C#
Tesla’s CTO Vijayan led a 25‑person team to create the company’s proprietary ERP, Warp, in just four months—starting with the low‑code platform Mendix, then rewriting it in C# on .NET for private‑cloud deployment—offering insights into rapid ERP development, low‑code choices, and architecture trade‑offs.
Tesla’s CTO Vijayan was tasked with building an in‑house ERP system when the company launched the Model S.
Instead of extending SAP, the team of 25 developers created a new solution called Warp in only four months.
The initial prototype was assembled on the low‑code platform
Mendix, which allowed rapid modeling of the complex manufacturing, supply‑chain, inventory, order, asset, finance and customer‑management processes.
After a short trial, performance and architectural limitations prompted a rewrite using
C#on the
.NET Framework, deployed on Tesla’s private cloud.
Today Warp supports around 200 engineers, serves more than 30 000 employees worldwide, and handles millions of daily transactions.
The story illustrates why Tesla chose to bypass SAP, start with low‑code for speed, and later migrate to a custom‑coded backend for scalability and control.
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