Manufacturing

Know what each unit actually cost to make.

Most manufacturers know their revenue to the shilling and their cost per unit to the nearest guess. Raw material prices move, yields vary between shifts, and wastage lives in somebody's notebook. A properly set-up ERP tracks material from the supplier's truck to the customer's invoice, so the cost is measured rather than estimated.

8 - 14 weeks: to the first costed batch
Actual cost: per batch, not per assumption
Traceable: from supplier lot to customer

What you get

What we set up for a manufacturer

Whether you mill, blend, bake, bottle, print or fabricate, the questions are the same: what went in, what came out, what was lost, and what it cost. These are the parts that answer them.

Bills of materials and routings

Every product defined by what goes into it and which operations it passes through, with versions, so a recipe change does not rewrite the cost of last month's batches.

Production planning

Sales orders and stock levels turned into a production plan and the material it needs, with purchase requests raised for whatever is short.

Batches and traceability

Raw material lots traced into finished-goods batches with dates and expiry, so a quality complaint can be traced back to the supplier delivery it came from.

Yield and wastage

Expected against actual output recorded on every work order, with by-products and scrap valued, so losses show up in the month they happen.

Cost per unit you can trust

Material, labour and overheads rolled into the actual cost of each batch, compared against the standard, and feeding margin reports by product and customer.

Shop-floor entry that gets used

Simple screens or tablet forms for the people recording production, because a system the floor will not use produces numbers nobody trusts.

Right for you if

You set prices from a cost per unit you are not sure of
Raw material prices or yields move enough to change your margin
A customer or regulator could ask you to trace a batch back to its inputs

Not the right buy if

You assemble a few products by hand in small runs - stock control in an accounting package will do

How it runs

What happens, step by step

An implementation is not finished when the screens work. It is finished when your opening balances, stock and customer ledgers agree with the books you are leaving, your invoices clear eTIMS, and your team can close a month without calling us.

01 Walk the floor We follow material from receiving to dispatch and write down how it is actually recorded today, including the parts that live on paper.

02 Model the products Bills of materials, operations and costing rules agreed with production and finance together, and tested against a batch you have already made.

03 Run it alongside A trial period recording real production on ERPNext, with the costs compared against what you believed them to be. The difference is usually the point.

What it costs

What it costs to get started

Starting prices. The final figure is fixed in writing before any work starts, and does not move once it is. ERPNext has no licence fee per user.

Manufacturing implementation

one-off, one plant

From KES 750,000

From USD 7,500 billed internationally

Accounts, stock, purchasing and sales, plus bills of materials, work orders, batches and costing. Starts with a paid fit-gap week, credited in full, which fixes the final price.

Never the whole fee upfront - the last payment falls due on delivery

Before you commit

What people ask about manufacturing

We make to order, not to stock. Does ERPNext handle that?

Yes. Production can be driven by individual sales orders, with material reserved and costs tracked against the order, as well as by a stock-based plan.

Can it handle products where the output varies, like milling or processing?

Yes. Variable yields, by-products and grades are recorded per work order, and costs are split across the outputs using rules you agree with your accountant.

Do our machines need to connect to it?

No. Most manufacturers start with production recorded by people on simple screens. Machine or scale integration can come later, where the volume justifies it.

Can we see margin by product and by customer?

Yes. Once actual batch costs flow through to sales invoices, margin can be reported by product, customer, branch or sales person.

Every question we get asked is on one page, if you would rather read the lot.

The rest of the system

Everything else we set up

Each of these runs on the same system, so what you start with is the foundation for what comes next.

ERP implementation Accounts, stock, sales, purchasing, payroll and eTIMS on one system, set up, connected and looked after by people still here next year. Overview eTIMS Every invoice through eTIMS, the moment it is raised. Payroll Payroll that keeps up when the deductions change. Distribution Stock, credit and collections that agree across branches. Support and recovery Your system, looked after - or put right.

Talk to us about manufacturing

The call is free, and ends with a straight answer on whether this fits, how long it would take, and what it would roughly cost.

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