Use cases
How a working day runs, step by step.
Cost a product from its formula
Know what one carton, jar or strip costs from raw and packing material.
- Add raw and packing materials
- Write the formula as a bill of materials
- Read the cost per unit
- Use it when you set the distributor price
Run production through your stages
Route a run through mixing, filling and packing with labour cost per step.
- Set up work centres for each stage
- Add the routing to the product
- Record the production run with the minutes for each stage
- Book finished goods at the rolled-up cost
Check capacity before you promise a date
See which stage is loaded from open work orders.
- Set the daily minutes for mixing, filling and packing
- Give open work orders a start and due date
- Open the capacity view for the next seven days
- Spot the stage flagged as overloaded
- Check which days are flagged overloaded before you commit a date
Prepare the HSN summary for GSTR-1
Get the HSN-wise figures across product lines for your return.
- Set the HSN and rate on each item
- Raise invoices as usual
- Open the HSN summary report
- Download the CSV and share it with your CA for GSTR-1
Ship an export order under LUT
Raise a foreign-currency export invoice under your Letter of Undertaking.
- Record your LUT details
- Raise the export invoice in the buyer's currency
- Check that the invoice prints your LUT number
- Send it with the shipping documents
Send material to a packer on a challan
Move material to a contract packer on a delivery challan with the job-work details on it.
- Create a delivery challan
- Set the challan purpose and the nature of job work
- Transfer the stock to a godown you keep for the packer
- On the goods-back challan, note the original challan number
Take a work order from plan to finished stock
Plan a run of jars or cartons as a work order and track its cost in progress until it closes.
- Plan a work order from a routed formula
- Start it and mark each stage done
- Complete it to book finished goods into stock
- Check open work-in-progress is back to zero
Put the lot number on each distributor invoice line
Record the lot number you packed against each line of the distributor invoice.
- Add a Batch / lot no. field to invoice lines
- Raise the distributor invoice as usual
- Type the lot number on each line
- Print or share the invoice with the lot number on it
- A production run does not create the lot yet: you type it
Re-cost a formula when a material price moves
The formula costs each raw and packing material at its last purchase price, so a dearer carton or base oil shows in the cost per unit.
- Record the supplier's bill with item lines at the new rate
- The purchase brings the stock in at that rate
- Open the product's bill of materials
- Each material shows the cost it used: last purchase, opening rate or selling rate
- Read the new cost per unit
Send finished goods from the factory to a depot
Move stock between the factory store and a depot, shown in transit until it arrives.
- Add the factory store and the depot as godowns
- Draft a transfer of finished goods
- Send it, and the stock shows as in transit
- Mark it received at the depot
- See stock by godown on the inventory screen