Manufacturing and Industrial
OEM and Contract Manufacturing
Producing to a customer's specification and brand, with customer-owned material and strict compliance to their standards.
Also covers: Contract Manufacturing · Third Party Manufacturing · White Label Manufacturing
About this industry
Contract manufacturing means producing someone else's product to their specification, often with their material, under their quality standards and their brand. Each customer brings a different specification, packaging and documentation requirement, and material ownership needs to stay clearly separated.
Common operational problems
- Customer-owned material must be accounted separately from your own
- Each customer has different specifications, packaging and documentation
- Customer audits require production records in their format
- Yield and wastage against customer material must be reconciled precisely
- Confidentiality between customers producing similar products
Example workflows
Customer-wise material ownership tracking
Production against customer specification and BOM
Yield and wastage reconciliation against customer material
Customer-specific packaging and labelling
Documentation packs prepared per customer requirement
Needs no product covers yet
On RequestWhere a ready product does not reach far enough, these are the needs this industry raises most often. We do not build to order; telling us which of these you need is what shapes what we build next.
- Customer-owned material ledger
- Customer-specific quality and packaging specifications
- Audit documentation packs by customer
Recommended solutions
The capabilities that matter most in this industry, the features inside each, and which product delivers it.
Manufacturing and Production Management
Materials, production, quality and costing connected to the sales and finance side of the business.
- Multi-level BOM with versions and wastage
- Production planning against demand and capacity
- Work orders with assignment and progress
- Material issue, consumption and WIP tracking
- Quality checks with defects and corrective action
- Job work and subcontracting
- Production costing with standard versus actual
- Batch, lot and serial traceability
Inventory and Purchase Management
Know what you hold, what it cost and what needs ordering — across locations, batches and units.
- Real-time stock with low-stock alerts
- Batch and expiry tracking, and serial-number tracking
- Barcode scanning for receipt, billing and stock-take
- Product variants and multiple units with conversions
- Multi-warehouse and godown transfers
- Purchase orders, quotations, returns and supplier ledgers
- Stock valuation and outstanding-payment tracking
Business Management and ERP
One connected system across branches, users and workflows, so operational data is entered once and read everywhere.
- Connected sales, purchase, inventory and accounting on shared master data
- Multiple branches, godowns and business locations
- Users, roles and permission control over what each person can see and do
- Configurable approval workflows for discounts, purchases and expenses
- Central master data for products, customers, suppliers and tax rates
- Consolidated reporting across the whole business or one branch
GST and Compliance
Tax-correct documents at the point of billing, so compliance is a by-product rather than a monthly scramble.
- GST invoices with multiple slabs applied per item
- HSN and SAC code management on product masters
- Cess support where applicable
- GST reports for return preparation
- e-Invoice workflows
- e-Way Bill workflows
Billing and Accounting
Invoices, payments, expenses and ledgers that stay in agreement without a month-end rebuild.
- GST-ready invoices with multiple formats and print sizes
- Customer and supplier ledgers with running balances
- Receivables and payables with ageing
- Cash and bank accounts with payment tracking
- Expense recording and categorisation
- Cash book and business reports including profit insights
Integration opportunities
Connections that commonly matter in this industry. Each carries its own honest status.
Talk to us about oem and contract manufacturing
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