ERPNext for manufacturers:
production, stock and cost control
A manufacturing ERP that puts BOMs, production planning, shop-floor operations, inventory and costing in one system - so you know what to make, what it consumed and what it actually cost.
What costs factories
money every week
These leak profit quietly and make scaling painful.
Raw material mismatch
A line stops for one missing component while other material sits unused, because purchase and production work off different information.
No production visibility
Management learns what is in progress or delayed by walking the floor or making phone calls.
Wrong product costing
Actual cost per unit is unknown, so pricing is guesswork and margin erodes order by order.
Untracked job work and scrap
Material at a subcontractor and rejected output are not accounted for, which compounds every cycle.
Missed delivery dates
Promises are made without a schedule linked to sales orders and capacity.
BOM version confusion
Recipes live in paper, Excel and email, so the floor sometimes builds to the wrong specification.
What ERPNext
brings to the floor
Control at every stage, from raw material to dispatch.
Planned production
Production plans built from sales orders, forecasts and stock levels, so urgent purchases become the exception.
Live shop-floor status
Work orders and job cards update as operators log them, visible from any device.
Accurate product costing
Material consumed, labour from job cards, machine time and overhead roll into a real cost per unit.
Controlled material flow
Raw material to work in progress to finished goods, tracked by stock entries linked to work orders.
Subcontracting under control
Every quantity sent out and received back is recorded, with the processing cost in the valuation.
Quality at every stage
Inspection at receipt, in process and before dispatch, with readings kept per batch or lot.
From plan
to finished goods
ERPNext connects the office to the factory floor, so data flows from planning to execution without re-entry.
Plan (MPS)
Analyse sales orders and forecasts to build a master production schedule.
MRP run
Auto-generate purchase requests for raw material and work orders for assembly.
Shop floor
Operators log time on job cards; material moves to work-in-progress warehouses.
QC & finish
Run inspection templates, move finished goods to stock and capitalise the cost.
Configured for how
you actually produce
ERPNext adapts to the production model rather than forcing one on you.
Discrete
Assembled products with multi-level BOMs and operation-level tracking - machinery, auto parts, electronics.
Process
Batch or continuous production with formulas, yield and full batch traceability - chemicals, food, pharma.
Job work & make-to-order
Material sent to processors, or production triggered by a customer order with job-wise costing.
What we configure
The manufacturing side of ERPNext, set up for your plant.
- Multi-level BOMs with versions and alternates
- Production plans and material requests
- Work orders, workstations and job cards
- Subcontracting and job-work flows
- Quality inspection templates and readings
- Batch, serial and expiry traceability
- Scrap, rework and yield tracking
- Costing from material, labour and overhead
Manufacturers already
running on ERPNext
Three plants, three production models, each with the numbers on the record.
Happy Enterprise: tiles, Morbi
A tile manufacturer shipping 12,000+ boxes a day moved production planning off spreadsheets and unified nine warehouses and a four-tier distributor network on one ERPNext.
Read the case studyRex Bond: construction chemicals
A process manufacturer put every formula under version control, so only the approved recipe reaches production and distributor pricing runs automatically.
Read the case studyRwenzori Process: plastic recycling
A recycling plant processing 1,000+ tonnes a month had a failed first ERPNext rollout. We rebuilt it around actual recycling yields instead of a textbook BOM.
Read the case studyERPNext manufacturing
vs spreadsheets
What changes when production runs on one system.
| What matters | ERPNext manufacturing | Spreadsheets and registers |
|---|---|---|
| Material planning | Generated from orders and stock | Reactive, based on memory |
| Costing | Actuals per work order | Estimated, often stale |
| WIP | Tracked by stock entries | Invisible between stages |
| Traceability | Batch and serial history | Paper logs, if any |
| Shop-floor data | Captured as work happens | Entered at day end, if at all |
| Subcontracting | Vendor stock stays on your books | Tracked in a notebook |
Start with one
production line
We don't stop your factory to install software. We prove the numbers on a single line or product family first.
Scope
We map one complex BOM, define your workstations and identify the QC checkpoints that matter.
Simulate
A shadow production week: operators enter data alongside your current method, so nothing is at risk.
Validate & roll out
We compare ERPNext costing against your actuals, settle the differences, then extend to the next line.
Manufacturing ERP
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your factory floor?
Tell us what you manufacture. We'll map one BOM and show how planning and costing work on it.
- We map a real BOM with you
- Costing compared to your actuals
- Rollout line by line
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