Challenges
The manual work this trade still runs on, what it costs, and what changes.
Not knowing what one carton, jar or strip costs
- How it is done today
- Formula cost is worked out once in Excel and never updated when raw or packing material prices move.
- Cost or risk
- Distributor prices are set on old costs and margin leaks without anyone seeing it.
- With Finocket
- Write each formula as a bill of materials with packing material and read the cost per unit.
Production stages costed as one lump
- How it is done today
- Mixing, filling and packing labour are not split; overheads are spread by guesswork.
- Cost or risk
- No view of which stage drives cost.
- With Finocket
- Route production runs through work centres with labour cost per step.
Delivery dates promised without checking the line
- How it is done today
- The owner promises a distributor a date from memory of what is running.
- Cost or risk
- Missed dates and rushed batches.
- With Finocket
- Check load by work centre from open work orders before committing a date.
Batch numbers written by hand on invoices
- How it is done today
- The batch is copied onto the invoice from the production register.
- Cost or risk
- A wrong batch on a distributor invoice has to be found and corrected by hand.
- With Finocket
- Record the batch or lot number on each invoice line. Production runs carry a batch number only where the manufacturing v3 setting is switched on (off by default), and there is no recall system.
HSN-wise summary rebuilt for every GSTR-1
- How it is done today
- The accountant sorts a month of invoices by HSN in Excel.
- Cost or risk
- Errors in the HSN table of GSTR-1, rebuilt each month.
- With Finocket
- Get the HSN-wise summary from invoices, using the HSN and rate set on each item.
Export invoices made in Word
- How it is done today
- Foreign-currency invoices are typed by hand with the LUT details pasted in.
- Cost or risk
- Mismatched figures between the invoice and the books.
- With Finocket
- Raise export invoices under LUT in foreign currency from the same books.
Material sent to contract packers on paper
- How it is done today
- Challans to the packer are in a book; returns are matched by memory.
- Cost or risk
- Material lying with a packer is not visible, and ITC-04 is rebuilt from paper.
- With Finocket
- Raise a delivery challan with the job-work purpose and keep e-way bill details on it. A job-work custody record and an ITC-04 CSV exist only where the manufacturing v3 setting is switched on (off by default); Finocket files nothing.
Tally batch stock moved by hand
- How it is done today
- Opening stock and masters are retyped when moving off Tally.
- Cost or risk
- Retyping and mistakes in opening balances.
- With Finocket
- Import masters and stock from Tally. Bill-of-materials import from Tally has not been checked.