Founder & CEO — BPO Systems Inc. | Walnut Creek, California
He started as a chemical engineer in India, ran the books for Pepsi-Cola and Sara Lee, then built one of the Bay Area's quieter Oracle ERP powerhouses - a firm where over 90% of clients come back, year after year.
The Story
Rambabu "Bobby" Yarlagadda's career has always had an unusual shape. He trained as a chemical engineer at the National Institute of Technology in Rourkela, India - one of the country's most competitive technical institutions. Then he crossed an ocean, added a master's in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and promptly pivoted to finance by earning an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
What followed was two decades inside the belly of American corporate life. Division CFO at Sara Lee. Group Controller at Beatrice Foods. Finance and planning roles at Pepsi-Cola, Taco Bell, RJR Nabisco, and Heinz. These weren't tech companies - they were the industrial engines of the American economy, and Yarlagadda spent years inside their financial infrastructure, watching what worked and what didn't.
That vantage point - sitting at the intersection of finance and operations at scale - turned out to be exactly what a certain kind of IT consultancy needed. When enterprise resource planning software began to reshape how large organizations ran their books, supply chains, and customer relationships, Yarlagadda wasn't approaching it as a technologist. He was approaching it as someone who had lived inside the problem the software was trying to solve.
"Repeat customers account for more than 90% of revenue."
- BPO Systems Inc., Company ProfileThe Company
BPO Systems Inc. was established around 2000-2001 with a clear proposition: bring enterprise-class Oracle ERP and CRM consulting to companies that needed it done right, not just done fast. Headquartered at 2099 Mt Diablo Blvd in Walnut Creek, California, the firm operates a Delaware Corporation structure with a parallel development center run through California Info Systems Pvt Ltd in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Vijayawada is not a coincidence. The Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh is where the Yarlagadda surname traces its roots, and the choice to build an offshore operation there - at a time when US-India delivery models were just beginning to mature - speaks to both a business instinct and a personal one.
The firm's service range covers Oracle ERP/CRM consulting and systems integration, Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 implementation, 24x7 Oracle ERP support, database administration, business process reengineering, SOX compliance, and staff augmentation. The client list reads like a who's who of Bay Area and national enterprise: Dell Computer, Starbucks Coffee Company, Kaiser Permanente, Macrovision, Saba Software, ActivIdentity, Camelbak, and Pillar Data.
What drives the 90% repeat business rate? Probably the same thing that made Yarlagadda effective as a CFO: the ability to read what an organization actually needs from its systems, as opposed to what a vendor brochure says it should need. When you've sat on the finance side of a Fortune 500 implementation, the consulting side feels different.
Full implementation, setup, configuration, and deployment of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.
Around-the-clock Oracle ERP support enabled by the US-India delivery model.
End-to-end process redesign aligned with ERP capabilities.
Financial controls and audit-readiness built into ERP configurations.
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Career Arc
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The Edge
Most Oracle ERP consultants come from IT. Yarlagadda came from the finance side - division CFO at Sara Lee, Group Controller at Beatrice. He knows what CFOs and Controllers actually need from their systems.
As Executive Project Manager for a large healthcare client, he identified $5 million in annual savings by rationalizing software maintenance contracts - a result that no purely technical consultant could surface.
BPO Systems established offshore delivery capability in Vijayawada, India in 2000 - before the US-India IT outsourcing wave fully materialized. That head start is now 24+ years of refined process.
"He identified annual savings opportunities of $5 million by rationalizing software maintenance contracts."
- Professional summary, BPO Systems Inc.Field Notes
He goes by "Bobby" in professional circles - a name that appears alongside Rambabu in business databases and company profiles. One name for forms, another for the room.
Chemical engineering, corporate finance, and enterprise IT consulting. Three disciplines that almost never appear in the same biography. For Yarlagadda they do.
The Yarlagadda surname traces to the Krishna and Guntur districts of Andhra Pradesh - the same region where he built his India operation in Vijayawada. Location choices rarely happen by accident.
90%+ repeat business is not a marketing line. In enterprise IT consulting, where switching costs are high but vendor fatigue is higher, it reflects something specific about how BPO Systems works.
Founding a US-India Oracle ERP consultancy in 2000 - before Infosys and Wipro had fully defined what that model looked like - required either foresight or nerve. Possibly both.
By the Numbers
A boutique firm in the best sense of the word: small enough to care, experienced enough to deliver, and old enough to have survived multiple Oracle version cycles. BPO Systems holds both Oracle Certified Partner and Microsoft Certified Partner status, backing its services with formal accreditation.
The dual-location model - Walnut Creek for client proximity and executive engagement, Vijayawada for round-the-clock delivery capacity - enables the 24x7 support offering that larger clients like Kaiser Permanente require. It's not a cost-reduction story. It's a coverage story.
Industries served range across technology, healthcare, consumer goods, and enterprise software. The firm's approach to SOX compliance integration reflects Yarlagadda's own background: finance controls built into systems, not bolted on afterward.
Company Snapshot
Track Record
Founded and scaled BPO Systems from zero to ~94 employees with delivery operations in both California and Andhra Pradesh, India.
BPO Systems holds Certified Partner status with both Oracle and Microsoft - formal accreditation that reflects the depth of technical capability the firm maintains.
As Executive Project Manager for a healthcare client, identified $5 million in annual savings through software maintenance contract rationalization.
Built a client roster of major US enterprises across technology, retail, and healthcare sectors. 90%+ return for repeat engagements.
Established the India delivery model in 2000, building process maturity over two-plus decades that enables competitive 24x7 support pricing and coverage.
Grew BPO Systems to approximately $22.4M in annual revenue as a boutique firm - without venture capital or external financing.
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