ERP for manufacturing units and job work contractors
- Platform
- ERPNext / Frappe
- Modules in the build
- 07
- Licensing
- Unlimited users
Plans built on real capacity, job cards that record what actually happened, costing that closes with the month.
Factories rarely lack data. They lack it in time to use it. Status lives on a whiteboard, consumption is reconstructed at month end, unit cost is a guess.
Every job card writes back real time and real material, so schedule, stock ledger and cost sheet describe one factory.
On screen
Production control tower — work orders, utilisation and output against plan
Manufacturing ERP
What makes this sector hard
These are the failure points behind almost every conversation we have in this sector. A general-purpose ERP solves none of them on its own.
- 01
Status by walk-round
Work orders cross operations, machines and quality checkpoints. No screen holds the position.
- 02
One missing component stops the line
Bills of material keep changing, and the schedule assumed everything was in stock.
- 03
Yields argued after the fact
Material sits with outside processors, quantities settled monthly instead of tracked continuously.
- 04
Standard costs drifted years ago
Product-level profitability becomes belief rather than measurement, and pricing inherits the error.
- 05
Capacity spent, nobody knows where
With no reliable machine or labour utilisation figure, improvement is aimed by intuition.
What ships in the Manufacturing & Job Work configuration
Present the first time you open the system, not raised as a change request three months after go-live.
- 01Multi-level BOM, live cost rollup, approved alternative materials
- 02MRP netting demand against stock, open purchase orders, lead times
- 03Finite-capacity scheduling: machines, tooling, operator skill
- 04Job cards: real time, real consumption, quality outcome
- 05Incoming, in-process and final inspection, defects classified and root-caused
- 06Subcontracting challans with a live vendor balance
- 07Bin-level stores, raw material to finished goods
- 08Machine utilisation and OEE with downtime reasons
- 09Actual-cost profitability per product, closing monthly
- 10Preventive maintenance from runtime, not the calendar
What clients measure afterwards
Figures reported by businesses in this sector once the system is running. How much of it is available to you depends on your baseline, and we will estimate that honestly during discovery.
- 25%
- Higher throughput from planning against real capacity
- 18%
- Less material waste with accurate BOM and consumption
- 75% → 95%
- On-time delivery
- 35%
- Fewer quality defects with checkpoint inspection
- 60% → 85%
- Machine utilisation
- 80%
- Faster subcontractor reconciliation
Modules in the base build
- 01Production Planning & MRP
- 02BOM & Routing
- 03Job Card Execution
- 04Quality Control
- 05Subcontracting
- 06Inventory & Stores
- 07Maintenance
Anything outside this list is scoped as custom work, in a versioned app that upgrades cannot overwrite.
Built for
- Discrete and process manufacturing units
- Job work and contract manufacturers
- CNC and precision machining shops
- Assembly and component manufacturers
- Engineering and fabrication units
- Plastics, rubber and packaging producers
The products this build is assembled from
One industry product does the heavy lifting; the others fill in around it. Each has its own page.
All products
Tell us what is actually going wrong
Fifteen minutes on WhatsApp is usually enough to tell whether an ERP is the right answer for you. If it is not, we will say so.