Manufacturing and Industrial
Connected Technology for Modern Manufacturing
Easy Khata runs the business around production: sales, purchase, stock, accounts, GST and payroll. Production itself (BOM, work orders, shop floor, quality, traceability and costing) is what MANUPRIME, our manufacturing ERP, is built for, with 37 industry templates.
Also covers: Production · Factory · Plant · Industrial Manufacturing · OEM
About this industry
Manufacturing adds a conversion step that ordinary trading businesses do not have. Material comes in, changes form through a sequence of operations, and leaves as something worth more — or worth less, if yield and quality were not controlled. Every other part of the business, from purchasing to costing to delivery commitments, depends on knowing what is happening in that conversion.
Common operational problems
- Production is planned without confirming material and capacity are actually available
- Cost per unit is only known long after the product was quoted and sold
- Work in progress between operations cannot be quantified
- Job work sent outside is not reconciled against wastage norms
- Quality problems reach the customer because inspection is informal
- A batch complaint cannot be traced back to its raw material source
Example workflows
Sales order exploded through BOM into material requirements
Shortfall raised as purchase requirement against current stock
Work order scheduled against line and machine capacity
Material issued, consumption recorded, WIP tracked between stages
Inspection at incoming, in-process and final stages
Dispatch with challan, e-Invoice and e-Way Bill
Needs beyond our products
On RequestWhere a ready product does not reach far enough, these are the needs this industry raises most often. We do not build to order; tell us which of these you need and we will say plainly what our products can and cannot do for it.
- Machine and PLC data capture for output and downtime
- Shop-floor terminals for operator entry
- Customer-specific quality certificate formats
- Supplier portal for purchase orders and dispatch confirmation
Manufacturing subindustries
Each links to an industry page here. Where a subindustry overlaps a category this site already covers, both labels stay searchable rather than producing two thin pages — so a few labels share one page.
- Automobile and Auto Components
- Auto Components Manufacturing
- Engineering and Fabrication
- Machinery and Industrial Equipment
- Electrical Equipment
- Electronics Manufacturing
- Textile Manufacturing
- Garment and Apparel Manufacturing
- Jewellery Manufacturing
- Food and Beverage Manufacturing
- Dairy Processing
- FMCG and Consumer Goods
- Agro Processing
- Packaged Drinking Water
- Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
- Medical Device Manufacturing
- Cosmetics Manufacturing
- Chemical Manufacturing
- Paint Manufacturing
- Lubricant Manufacturing
- Plastic Manufacturing
- Rubber Manufacturing
- Packaging Manufacturing
- Paper Manufacturing
- Commercial Printing
- Furniture Manufacturing
- Plywood and Panel Manufacturing
- Ceramics and Tiles
- Tiles and Sanitary Ware
- Glass Manufacturing
- Cement Manufacturing
- Building Materials
- Pipe Manufacturing
- Steel and Metal Fabrication
- Transformer Manufacturing
- Transformer Radiators and Cooling
- Leather Manufacturing
- Footwear Manufacturing
- Oil and Lubricant Manufacturing
- OEM and Contract Manufacturing
- Job Work and Subcontract Manufacturing
Common operational challenges
The problems that recur across manufacturers, whatever they make.
Production plans that ignore material reality
A schedule is committed before anyone checks whether the material to build it is actually in stock, so runs stop halfway and delivery dates slip.
Cost per unit discovered months later
Material, labour and overhead are only assembled at year-end, by which point loss-making products have been quoted at the same price all year.
WIP that nobody can quantify
Material has left the store but not arrived as finished goods. How much is sitting between stages, and in what state, is a matter of opinion.
Job work that leaks
Material goes out to a job worker and less comes back than expected. Without issue-and-receipt reconciliation, the shortfall is absorbed silently.
Quality problems found by the customer
Without inspection at incoming, in-process and final stages, defects are discovered after dispatch when they cost the most to fix.
No traceability when it is needed most
A customer complaint about one batch cannot be traced back to its raw material source, so the response is either a total recall or a guess.
Production and shop-floor workflows
How work actually moves through a plant, and where each stage is recorded.
Order to production
- 1Sales order confirmed with a delivery commitment
- 2BOM explodes the order into material requirements
- 3Stock checked and shortfall raised as a purchase requirement
- 4Work order created and scheduled against capacity
Material to finished goods
- 1Material issued against the work order
- 2Consumption recorded as production runs
- 3WIP tracked between operations
- 4Output and rejection recorded at completion
- 5Finished goods received into stock
Job work cycle
- 1Material issued to the job worker with a challan
- 2Subcontract order tracked against expected return
- 3Processed material received and inspected
- 4Wastage reconciled against agreed norms
- 5Job-work charges booked
Quality and dispatch
- 1Final inspection against quality parameters
- 2Packing list prepared
- 3Delivery challan and e-Way Bill generated
- 4e-Invoice registered where applicable
- 5Dispatch recorded and stock relieved
Two answers for manufacturing
Easy Khata runs the business around production: sales, purchase, stock, accounts, GST and payroll. Production itself (BOM, work orders, shop floor, quality, traceability and costing) is what MANUPRIME, our manufacturing ERP, is built for, and a guided demo is available on request.
- Easy Khata: sales, purchase and stock on one set of records
- Easy Khata: accounts, GST and payroll for the whole business
- MANUPRIME, built for production: BOM, work orders and the shop floor
- MANUPRIME, built for production: quality, traceability and costing
Implementation approach
Manufacturing implementations fail when everything changes at once. This sequence keeps each phase useful on its own.
How we phase it
- 1Document the real production sequence, including the job work and workarounds nobody writes down
- 2Build product masters, BOMs, routings and wastage norms
- 3Go live on material and inventory first, so stock is trustworthy
- 4Add work orders and shop-floor recording
- 5Layer quality checks onto a working production flow
- 6Introduce costing last, once the inputs feeding it are reliable
Integration possibilities
Shop-floor hardware varies enormously and older machines often expose nothing at all. Each is assessed against your actual equipment rather than assumed.
Recommended solutions
The capabilities that matter most in this industry, the features inside each, and which product delivers it.
Manufacturing and Production Management
Materials, production, quality and costing connected to the sales and finance side of the business.
- Multi-level BOM with versions and wastage
- Production planning against demand and capacity
- Work orders with assignment and progress
- Material issue, consumption and WIP tracking
- Quality checks with defects and corrective action
- Job work and subcontracting
- Production costing with standard versus actual
- Batch, lot and serial traceability
Inventory and Purchase Management
Know what you hold, what it cost and what needs ordering — across locations, batches and units.
- Real-time stock with low-stock alerts
- Batch and expiry tracking, and serial-number tracking
- Barcode scanning for receipt, billing and stock-take
- Product variants and multiple units with conversions
- Multi-warehouse and godown transfers
- Purchase orders, quotations, returns and supplier ledgers
- Stock valuation and outstanding-payment tracking
Business Management and ERP
One connected system across branches, users and workflows, so operational data is entered once and read everywhere.
- Connected sales, purchase, inventory and accounting on shared master data
- Multiple branches, godowns and business locations
- Users, roles and permission control over what each person can see and do
- Configurable approval workflows for discounts, purchases and expenses
- Central master data for products, customers, suppliers and tax rates
- Consolidated reporting across the whole business or one branch
GST and Compliance
Tax-correct documents at the point of billing, so compliance is a by-product rather than a monthly scramble.
- GST invoices with multiple slabs applied per item
- HSN and SAC code management on product masters
- Cess support where applicable
- GST reports for return preparation
- e-Invoice workflows
- e-Way Bill workflows
Billing and Accounting
Invoices, payments, expenses and ledgers that stay in agreement without a month-end rebuild.
- GST-ready invoices with multiple formats and print sizes
- Customer and supplier ledgers with running balances
- Receivables and payables with ageing
- Cash and bank accounts with payment tracking
- Expense recording and categorisation
- Cash book and business reports including profit insights
Integration opportunities
Connections that commonly matter in this industry. Each carries its own honest status.
Questions
Talk to us about manufacturing
Describe how your business runs today. We will be straightforward about whether a ready product fits or whether it needs building around.