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Manufacturing

Manufacturing ERP for small businesses

Define what goes into each product, make it with a work order, and know what every unit really cost, on the same stock and books as the rest of the business.

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In short

SimpleERP is manufacturing ERP for small Indian producers. Bills of materials roll up material, scrap and labour cost, and a work order moves from plan to start to complete, consuming components and adding finished goods at actual cost.

Illustration of a bill of materials with cost roll-up and a work order moving from planned to in progress to completed.

The daily job: make it, and know what it cost

A workshop, assembler or packer needs three answers: can we make it, did we make it, and what did each unit cost. SimpleERP answers them from the same stock the sales team bills from.

  • Check materials before you start, warehouse by warehouse
  • Start and complete work orders from a phone on the shop floor
  • Cost each unit from what was actually used, not a guess

Bills of materials

A bill of materials rolls up the cost of every unit

List the components and quantities that make one batch, add a scrap percentage and the labour or overhead per batch. SimpleERP prices each component at its current average cost and shows the standard cost per unit as you type.

  • Several versions per product, one marked default
  • Save as new version when the recipe changes
  • Components priced at purchase price until first received, and flagged as estimates
  • A BOM can never include the product it makes
Steel rack 4 shelf, v2QuantityAverage costCost
MS sheet 1.2 mm14.5 kg₹78₹1,131
Angle 25×256 m₹96₹576
Bolts and nuts1 set₹64₹64
Powder coat0.4 kg₹420₹168
Materials + 2% scrap + ₹180 labour₹2,157.78 per rack

Work orders

Work orders go from plan to start to complete

A work order says what to make, how many, which warehouse supplies the components and where the finished goods go. Source and target can be the same warehouse. Each step does one thing, and a planned or started job can still be cancelled because nothing has moved yet.

  1. Plan

    Materials are calculated from the BOM, including scrap, and frozen as the plan. Shortages are flagged with a Create purchase order button.

  2. Start

    Marks the job in progress and records when it started. Nothing moves in stock yet.

  3. Complete

    Enter the quantity made and what was really consumed. Components leave stock and finished goods arrive in one transaction.

Costing

Finished goods enter stock at what they actually cost

Consumption defaults to the plan scaled to what you made, and you can correct any line. Components leave at their average cost, labour and overhead are added, and the finished product enters stock at the resulting cost per unit, blended into its own average.

  • Labour and overhead post to the ledger as manufacturing overhead absorbed
  • The confirm message spells out exactly what will move before you press it
  • Planned against actual material cost is kept on every work order
  • A component with no cost yet is flagged before you complete, so the unit cost is not understated

Illustration of stock on hand by warehouse at average cost, with a low-stock row highlighted and a movement ledger.

Finished racks land in the target warehouse at their actual cost.

Make to order

Link a work order to the sales order it is for

Making to order? Pick the confirmed sales order on the work order, and it plans the quantity still needed after what is already on hand. The work order list shows the sales order beside each job, so the floor knows which customer is waiting. The sales order is then invoiced as usual, in parts if finished goods come off the line in batches.

Shop floor

Built for a phone on the shop floor

Start and Complete work one-handed on a 360 px screen, with large number fields for quantities. Print a one-page job card for the floor with the materials to issue and the quantity to make.

  • Start and Complete buttons sized for a thumb
  • Planned start and end dates on every job
  • Filter work orders by status, product, warehouse and date range

One system

What it connects to

Manufacturing moves stock and posts overhead; everything else follows from that.

Honest limits

Not included yet

  • Routings, operations and machine scheduling
  • Partial completion: one work order completes once, so split long runs
  • Automatic material requirements planning across many orders
  • Job-work challans for material sent to outside processors
  • Batch or lot tracking of finished goods
  • Cancelling a completed work order: correct it with a stock adjustment

FAQ

Questions, answered

What is a bill of materials?

A bill of materials, or BOM, lists the components and quantities needed to make a product, plus expected scrap and the labour or overhead per batch. SimpleERP uses it to plan materials and estimate cost.

Can a component itself be manufactured?

Yes, one level at a time. Make the sub-assembly with its own work order first, then use it as a component in the next.

How is labour cost handled?

Enter labour or overhead per batch on the BOM. On completion it is added to the finished goods' cost and posted to the ledger as overhead absorbed. Wages themselves are paid through payroll.

What if I make more or fewer units than planned?

Enter the actual quantity made. Consumption defaults scale in proportion and stay editable, and the cost per unit is worked out from what was really used.

Is SimpleERP suitable for a garment or furniture unit?

For make-to-stock and make-to-order with simple BOMs, yes. See the manufacturing industry page for what fits and what does not.

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