ERP for small and mid-sized manufacturers in India
For manufacturers
Unnati is a cloud ERP for Indian manufacturers that ties the bill of materials, manufacturing orders, machine logs and quality checks to stock and GST billing. Your planner, store keeper, floor supervisor and accountant all work on the same order, so material issue, scrap and finished goods reconcile the same day.
The money leaks between the floor and the office.
Most small factories do not lose money on the machine. They lose it in the gap between the shop floor and the office, where a job card sits in one register, the store keeper writes issues in another, and the accountant sees none of it until the month closes.
Unnati closes that gap by making the manufacturing order the single record. Operations, material issue, quality checks, machine hours, scrap and finished goods all hang off the same order number, and the stock and accounting entries follow from it.
See the production moduleThree problems every small factory recognises
Nobody can say where an order actually stands.
Every manufacturing order opens with eleven tabs: BOM, operation and routing, raw material, QC, finished goods, machine log, tools, scrap, activity, daily report and comments. The supervisor updates the tab he works in and the planner reads the same order, so there is one version of the truth.
For example: Demo Mixer M-01 logs three hours against a manufacturing order while the store issues 40 kg of Demo Gel Base (DM-3100) to the same order. Both appear on one screen with the running production progress.
Material issued to the floor never matches the store register.
Raw material issue and return are booked against the manufacturing order rather than against a person. Scrap is recorded on its own tab, rejected stock and QC stock sit in separate buckets, and current stock only counts what is genuinely sellable.
For example: Precision Coaters issues 120 kg, returns 6 kg unused and books 4 kg as scrap. Current stock moves by 110 kg and the scrap is visible against that order, not written off silently.
Job costing arrives a month late, so a loss-making order is found after delivery.
Landed cost, item pricing history and the manufacturing order daily report update while the job runs, and the accounting entries post from the same documents. You can see an order going wrong while it is still on the floor.
For example: A run that consumes 12 per cent more raw material than the BOM shows up on the daily report on day two, not in the following month’s profit and loss.
Every company, person and item code above is invented for illustration. We do not publish customer names or figures without written permission.
How a job runs end to end
The same seven steps cover a make-to-order job and a make-to-stock run. Each step writes to the next one, so nothing is retyped.
- Step 1 of 7
Sales order or production plan
A confirmed sales order or a production plan for stock starts the job. Quantities, delivery dates and the customer come across without re-entry.
Starts the chainHands on to BOM
- Step 2 of 7
BOM and material request
The bill of materials tells you what the order needs. Shortfalls become a material request, then an RFQ or purchase order for the buyer.
Opens with Sales orderHands on to MO released
- Step 3 of 7
Manufacturing order released
The order gets its own code, scheduled dates, product information and quantity details. Status and execution state are visible on the left rail of the order.
Opens with BOMHands on to Operations
- Step 4 of 7
Operations, routing and machine log
Each operation is assigned to a work station and a machine. Operators log hours, downtime and tool usage against the operation they actually ran.
Opens with MO releasedHands on to In-process QC
- Step 5 of 7
In-process quality control
QC parameters, instruments and SLAs decide what is checked and when. Operation QC and MO QC can gate the order so it cannot be completed with a check outstanding.
Opens with OperationsHands on to Finished goods
- Step 6 of 7
Finished goods to stock
Finished goods enter a warehouse and bin with their batch. Rejected quantity goes to rejected stock instead of quietly joining sellable stock.
Opens with In-process QCHands on to Invoice & IRN
- Step 7 of 7
Invoice, IRN and e-way bill
Delivery order, delivery challan and tax invoice carry the batch forward. E-invoice and e-way bill are raised through NIC from the same invoice.
Opens with Finished goodsCloses it
What you switch on for this
Every module is included in the subscription, so these are simply the ones this kind of business switches on first. Follow a link to read what each module does in detail.
What Unnati does not do here yet
Material requirements planning (MRP) and serial-number tracking are on the roadmap. Today Unnati plans against the BOM, reorder levels and the production plan rather than a full MRP run.
Frequently asked
More questions are answered on the FAQ page, and the security page sets out how your data is handled.
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Bring one real document from last week. We will run it through Unnati on the call and tell you where it does not fit.
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