Know what every unit really costs to make
Recipes, raw material, production runs, job work and sales in one connected system, built for food processing, packaging, furniture, garment and assembly units.
What goes wrong today
- Raw material use tracked in a notebook so the real cost of each unit is a guess
- Production starts, then a component runs short and the batch sits half-finished
- Finished goods with no link back to the material batches used when a customer complains
- Material sent to job workers tracked on paper and ITC-04 pieced together by hand every filing period
- A bill of materials with scrap allowance and the cost per unit worked out
- A manufacturing order checking live stock before release
- Raising a purchase request for a material that is short
- Sending material to a job worker and tracking what comes back
How a production run works in Centrik
- 1
Set up the recipe once
Create a bill of materials with components, scrap allowance, by-products and labour or overhead cost per run. Centrik shows the estimated cost per unit before you make anything.
- 2
Check stock before you start
A manufacturing order compares what the run needs with what is free in stock. Anything short can become a draft purchase request straight from the order.
- 3
Issue material and record output
Hand materials to the floor on a store issue slip, then record output in one or more runs. Finished goods, scrap and by-products go into stock automatically.
- 4
Send work out and sell
Send material to a job worker on a challan and track what comes back. When you sell, the invoice splits GST correctly and stock goes down on its own.
What manufacturers use Centrik for
Recipes and costing
- Bills of materials with components, scrap allowance, by-products and labour or overhead cost per run
- Estimated cost per unit before you produce, net of what scrap and by-products can be sold for
- Revise a BOM without losing the old one: every change is kept in history
Production
- Manufacturing orders from a BOM, ad hoc for one-off jobs, or made to order against a sales order
- Material availability check before release, with a draft purchase request for any shortfall
- Optional approval before a manufacturing order is released, and on store issue slips
- Record output in one or more runs, and cancel a run that was entered by mistake
Traceability
- Batch, serial number and expiry on finished goods
- Trace any finished batch back to the raw-material batches it was made from
- Consumption variance and material-used reports: standard against actual, per order and per material
Job work and ITC-04
- Send materials out for job work on a challan and see what is still out on each order
- Record returns and losses, with an overdue list of material that hasn't come back
- ITC-04 tables 4 and 5A as CSVs for the GST offline tool. How ITC-04 works
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. A semi-finished item can have its own bill of materials and be made on its own manufacturing order, then used as a component in the next stage.