Operational essays, India-compliance explainers and post-mortems from real go-lives. No "10 things to look for in an ERP" SEO sludge.
A 240 KLPD distillery had a quiet ₹4.1L variance every quarter. Three ERPs missed it. We caught it because we sat through a shift change in the molasses tank yard. A note on why "process discovery" can't be done from a conference room.
Most ERPs reconcile excise and GST in two passes, which means two opportunities for a mismatch. Here's how Trustbit posts both from a single shift entry — and why it took us four releases to get it right.
FEFO is easy on paper, hated in practice. We spent six weeks in a Navi Mumbai cold-store learning why pickers were over-riding the system 40% of the time. The fix wasn't algorithmic — it was a bigger font.
Eighteen weighbridge protocols, four of them undocumented Marathi-language manuals from 1998. A practical note on shipping a serial-protocol library for Indian manufacturing.
If your OEE is being entered by hand at the end of the shift, it's not OEE — it's a feeling. Wiring 32 injection machines with OPC-UA, and what the real numbers showed.
After running 38 mock-audits for clients, four patterns show up every time. None of them are about the food. All of them are about how the food got tracked.
A Jaipur furniture house wanted variant SKUs in a way our schema didn't allow. We lost the deal. Then we redesigned the BoM engine. A note on saying yes to no.
Your shop-floor terminal is going to be a ₹6,000 Android phone with a cracked screen and a damp glove on it. Notes on UI density, tap targets and why we still ship offline-first PWAs.
82% of migration effort is deduping vendors with the same PAN spelled three ways. A pragmatic note on the un-glamorous work that makes a migration succeed.
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