Manufacturing ERP software that records what actually happened on the shop floor
Custom ERP for manufacturers who cannot afford another month of production data reconstructed from paper and memory. Built to your process, not configured against a template, and implemented until the old spreadsheets are switched off.
- Production orders, routing and shop-floor capture in one record - not split across three systems
- Batch and serial traceability from goods-in to dispatch, query answered in seconds not days
- Quality inspection, non-conformance and corrective action on the same record as the production order
- GST e-invoicing IRN and e-way bill generated from the system, not from a separate spreadsheet
30 minutes. Bring the report that is always three days old or the audit that takes a week to prepare.
Manufacturing ERP software is a single system that records production, quality, traceability, inventory and costing in the same database as it happens on the floor, rather than as a reconstruction at month end from the paper travellers.
What we keep hearing before the first call
Common bottlenecks and operational breakdowns we encounter before modernizing the workflow.
The compliance and audit requirements that change what your ERP has to do
What goes into a manufacturing ERP we build
Production planning and scheduling
Work orders, BOM explosion, capacity loading, shop-floor routing. What was planned and what was produced, on the same screen.
Batch and serial traceability
Genealogy from goods-in to dispatch. Which material batch went into which order; which finished goods went to which customer. Query answered in seconds.
Quality management
Inspection plans per product and route step, non-conformance records, CAPA tracking, certificates of analysis. Recorded where the work happens.
Inventory and procurement
Multi-location stock, reorder logic, supplier performance, purchase approvals with thresholds. One number, not four exports.
Costing - actual versus plan
Job costing against standard, by order, by product family, by plant. The number your finance team currently rebuilds at month end.
GST compliance and dispatch
IRN generation, QR code, e-way bill, linked to the delivery order. Dispatch is one step, not three systems.
Manufacturers we have built for
Star Engineering and Force Motors are names we can use. Both are India-based manufacturers with production complexity - multi-level BOM, multi-routing, quality gates - that a licensed ERP did not handle cleanly.
Star Engineering is an auto-component manufacturer in Pune. Force Motors is an Indian commercial vehicle and agricultural equipment manufacturer. We mention both because the most useful reference for a manufacturer is another manufacturer, not a case study from a different sector.
Across eight years: 730+ systems, 500+ clients worldwide, 25+ industry verticals.
Star Engineering
India (Automotive components)
Force Motors
India (Commercial vehicles)
Licence or custom: the questions that actually decide it
| Decision point | Licensed ERP | Custom build |
|---|---|---|
| Your routing is standard | Licensed ERP fits well | Overkill - a good licensed system is the right answer |
| Your routing has exceptions, but they are bounded | Configuration handles most of it, workarounds for the rest | Depends on how costly the workarounds are |
| Your quality process does not fit the standard model | Add-on module or manual override at the end | Built to the actual inspection plan from the start |
| A customer audit question currently takes days to answer | Traceability depends on how completely data was entered | Traceability is enforced at capture - the record is complete by definition |
When AI earns its place in a manufacturing ERP
AI on a manufacturing ERP is useful exactly where the volume of data exceeds what a person can reasonably watch. Predictive maintenance signals from machine data, anomaly detection on yield rates, retrieval over your quality records to answer a customer question - these are the cases. Replacing the production planner's judgement is not one of them.
We add an AI layer when the client asks for one and when the data quality in the system justifies it. An AI agent on a system where the quality records are incomplete tells you what the gaps are, not what the process is doing. Data quality comes first.
How the engagement works
A 30-minute call
You bring one process - your costing, your traceability, your quality workflow. We tell you whether it is ready and whether we are the right team.
Discovery, then a fixed-scope proposal
We map your routing, your quality plan and your compliance requirements. Fixed scope, fixed price, a date you can hold us to.
Build, with weekly demos on your data
You watch the exceptions - your unusual routing, your multi-level BOM - work before the build is finished.
Implementation and year three
Migration from whatever you are running now, parallel running, operator training, then named support. Shipping is the easy part.
Questions we get asked
For a single-plant core scope - production orders, traceability, quality, inventory - plan on a few months to first production use, then a phased rollout to remaining modules. Multi-plant and complex integration work takes longer. We give you a date we can hold after discovery, not a range from a slide deck.
Because a licensed ERP asks your operation to fit its template, and if your shop floor runs differently from that template - your routing is unusual, your quality gates are not in the standard places, your costing model does not match - every day is a workaround. A custom system starts from your process. The workarounds are not there because there is nothing to work around.
Yes. GST e-invoicing with IRN generation from the NIC portal, e-way bill generation from the EWB portal, and reconciliation back to your dispatch records are all buildable as named modules. If IATF 16949 traceability is in scope, the quality record and the tax record live on the same production order.
Often yes. PLC data, SCADA output, CNC machines and weighbridges are all things we have connected. The conversation about integration is always about what the equipment actually exposes - its API, its database, its flat file, its OPC-UA endpoint - and whether the connection cost is worth the data. We scope these explicitly.
Batch and serial genealogy from goods-in to dispatch. Each production order carries its inputs - raw materials, sub-assemblies, tools with calibration dates - and each inspection result is linked to the order. A customer quality query that would take days to answer from a spreadsheet takes seconds from the traceability record. For IATF 16949 clients the non-conformance and corrective action chain is in the same system.
Yes. Multi-plant stock, inter-plant transfers, plant-level reporting that rolls up to a group view. Each plant can run its own configuration - different product families, different quality plans, different costing rates - on the same database. The finance team gets one reconciled number, not a collection of exports.
You do. Repository access, documentation and a full handover are written into every contract from day one. If we disappeared tomorrow, you would have the code, the database schema and the documentation.
Both, and the implementation is the part that determines whether the system is actually used. Data migration, parallel running, operator training, and the follow-through until the old spreadsheets are switched off. We do not hand over a system and walk away.
Ready to see this on your own shop floor?
Book a 30-minute call. Bring the audit question that currently takes days to answer or the cost report that arrives too late to be useful. We will tell you honestly whether a custom build is the right answer for it.
Working from Pune with manufacturers across India and the Middle East.
