Industry — Discrete Manufacturing (job-shop, batch, MTO & MTS)

Job-shop, batch and made-to-order, run on one ERP

Fast ERP runs the whole discrete-manufacturing lifecycle on one system — enquiry to quotation to order to dispatch to invoice, purchase estimate to PR to PO to goods receipt to supplier bill, BOM explosion and production, all posting to one shared stock ledger. Made to order or made to stock, cloud or on-premise. Built for manufacturing businesses of every kind, in India and worldwide.

Quote → Cash
enquiry to invoice on one system
MTO + MTS
both profiles, one production flow
One ledger
purchase, WIP & FG in one stock
Fast ERP — One System, Live
🧾 Sales — Quote to Cash OA → IN
OA-231 · gear housing · Released (4)
Pre-dispatch inspection → DC → Invoice
🛒 Purchase — Procure to Pay PR → GRN
PR-against-BOM → PO-118 approved
GRN (REC) → receipt inspection AC/RJ/AD
📦 Production → Stock WIP → FGM
BOM explosion · issue (ISS) · WIP good/reject
FGM transfer · lot-tracked · on-hand
📒 One Stock Ledger STCKLG
REC · ISS · WIP · FGM all post to one balance
Dhruv AI
"Which OAs are pending dispatch this week?" — answered
Reject clustering · "burr at deburring" theme flagged
Insight: material consumption over BOM on OA-231
One platform — every module switched on, built in Pune by Improsys, deployed cloud or on-premise across India and worldwide
Sales & CRM
Purchase
Inventory & Stores
Production
Planning / MRP
Quality & APQP
Accounts & GST
HR
Document Control
Tally Integration
Dhruv AI
Admin / RBAC
Sales & CRM
Purchase
Inventory & Stores
Production
Planning / MRP
Quality & APQP
Accounts & GST
HR
Document Control
Tally Integration
Dhruv AI
Admin / RBAC
Why discrete manufacturers choose Fast ERP

The problems every job-shop, batch
and MTO plant recognises

Sales, purchase and production run in separate systems

Orders live in one spreadsheet, purchase in another, the shop floor in a third. Nobody can trace a customer order through to the material bought and the goods made without stitching files together by hand.

Stock is a guess, not a ledger

Receipts, issues, WIP and finished goods aren't posted to one balance, so on-hand never matches the floor. Shortages surface only when a job stalls, and month-end valuation is a physical count and an argument.

Every order-specific variant reinvents the BOM

Job-shop and made-to-order work means each order has its own bill of materials and route. Without an order-specific BOM engine, the same part gets re-costed and re-planned from scratch, and quotes drift from actuals.

Invoices, GST and accounts are re-keyed twice

Dispatch is typed into Tally by hand; the invoice is reconciled to the order in a separate register; GST and amount-in-words are patched on afterwards. The same numbers are entered in three places and never fully agree.

How Fast ERP fixes each one
Quote-to-cash and procure-to-pay on one databaseEnquiry, quotation, Order Acceptance, dispatch and invoice sit beside PE, PR, PO, GRN and supplier bill — every document traceable to the next through sales/CRM and purchase.
One shared stock ledgerReceipts, transfers, issues, WIP and finished goods all post through one store engine to a single per-bin balance and STCKLG ledger — so on-hand, valuation and stock MIS are always live in inventory & stores.
Order-specific and multi-level BOMA released order drives a BOM-against-OA explosion, material plan and work orders in production & planning — job-shop variants, batch runs and multi-level assemblies are costed and traced properly.
GST invoicing and Tally posting built inInvoices carry GST and amount-in-words; an OA-versus-invoice report reconciles ordered against billed; and dispatch, GRN and journals post to Tally on both sides — no double entry.
The discrete-manufacturing lifecycle

From a customer enquiry to a paid invoice —
one order, one traceable trail

Every order follows the same controlled path — whether it is a made-to-order job against a customer OA or a make-to-stock batch — so purchase, stores, production, quality and accounts all read from one record instead of five spreadsheets.

Enquiry & Order
Quotation → Order Acceptance released (4)
BOM explodes
Purchase
PR-against-BOM → PO → GRN receipt
Receipt inspected
Production
Issue (ISS) → WIP good/reject → FG
FGM to stock
Quality Gates
Receipt, in-process & pre-dispatch checks
Cleared to ship
Dispatch & Invoice
DC → GST invoice (IN) + amount-in-words
Post to Tally
Accounts
OA-vs-invoice reconcile → receipt → Tally
End-to-end flow

Order in → material & production →
dispatch, invoice and reconcile

Fast ERP gives a discrete manufacturer the whole business on one system — the same record from the customer's enquiry to the receipt in accounts — for made-to-order, made-to-stock and batch work alike, cloud or on-premise.

Win the order
Enquiry → quotation → approved Order Acceptance (OA), status 01 Draft to 4 Released, with the order-specific BOM attached
Buy & receive
PR-against-BOM → PO → GRN receipt with accept/reject/deviation inspection, posting stock and the supplier bill
Make & inspect
Material issue, WIP good/reject per operation, in-process inspection and finished-goods transfer to stock, lot-tracked
Ship & bill
Pre-dispatch inspection → delivery challan → GST invoice; OA-vs-invoice reconciliation and Tally posting close the loop
01 — Quote-to-cash

Enquiry to invoice — one order, tracked end to end

An enquiry becomes a quotation, then an approved Order Acceptance (OA). The released OA carries its own order-specific BOM, drives production, and is followed through pre-dispatch inspection, a delivery challan (DC) and a GST invoice (IN) with amount-in-words. An OA-versus-invoice report reconciles ordered against billed, so nothing ships unpriced and nothing is billed twice. Made-to-order or made-to-stock, it is one flow.

Enquiry → quotation → Order Acceptance, status 01 → 4
Order-specific BOM against every OA
Pre-dispatch inspection → delivery challan → GST invoice
OA-vs-invoice reconciliation and CRM follow-up
Order Book — Live
Live
Order
Type
Status
Gear housing · 120 nosOA-231 · made-to-order
OA
Released
Cover plate · 1,000 nosStock replenishment
OA
Invoiced
Shaft assembly · 80 nosOA-238 · made-to-order
OA
Draft 01
Mounting bracket · 500 nosBatch · pre-dispatch QC
DC
Inspecting
02 — Procure-to-pay

From a BOM shortage to a paid supplier bill — one chain

A shortage from the material plan, a reorder level, or a PR-against-BOM raises a Purchase Requisition (PR). It is checked, approved and turned into a Purchase Order (PO), followed up to a Goods Receipt (GRN, REC) that posts stock. Receipt inspection accepts (AC), rejects (RJ) or accepts under deviation (AD); the supplier bill is matched to the GRN and PO before a Tally purchase voucher is posted. Every step ties back to the order that needed it.

PE by category → PR (incl. PR-against-BOM) → checked/approved
PO follow-up and pending MIS to a GRN receipt
Receipt inspection accept / reject / accept-under-deviation
Supplier bill matched to GRN + PO, posted to Tally
GRN against PO-118 — REC
Inspected
Material
Ordered
Recd
QC
MS plate 4mmPR-against-BOM
250
250
AC
Fastener M8reorder level
2,000
2,000
AC
Bearing 6204PR-against-BOM
500
480
AD
03 — BOM & production

Order-specific BOM, work orders and WIP

A released order explodes into a multi-level or order-specific BOM and a Bill of Resources for machines and labour. Material is reserved and issued (ISS) against the work order; operators book good and reject WIP at each operation off a process/route sheet; and completed output transfers to finished-goods stock (FGM), lot-tracked. Engineering changes (ECN) are controlled, and consumption is measured against BOM so excess is visible, not buried.

Multi-level, structural and order-specific BOM/BOR
Material issue, WIP good/reject and FG transfer per work order
Engineering change (ECN) control and BOM costing
DayPilot/Gantt machine loading from the plan
BOM against OA-231 · gear housing
Order-specific bill of materials
Housing casting · RM
120 nos
Bearing 6204
240 nos
Bush · SFG (sub-assembly)
120 nos
Fastener M8
480 nos
BOM released → work order raised
Reserve → issue (ISS) → WIP → FG
04 — One stock ledger

Purchase, WIP and FG on one balance

Every stock movement — goods receipt (REC), transfer (TRA), issue (ISS), WIP and finished-goods (FGM) — posts through one store engine to a single per-bin balance and STCKLG ledger in inventory & stores. On-hand, valuation, ABC analysis and non/slow-moving reports are always live, lots and pallets are tracked, and dispatch decrements the same stock production filled. Made and on-hand are one number, not two.

REC, TRA, ISS, WIP and FGM to one per-bin stock balance
Lot/pallet tracking and STCKLG movement ledger
ABC analysis, valuation and non/slow-moving MIS
Barcode/QR and TSC thermal labels for receipts and lots
Stock Ledger — Gear housing
One item, every movement
Goods receiptREC · +250
Issue to WOISS · −120
FG transferFGM · +118
LotLOT-2026-0418
On-hand (bin A-12)Live ✓
ValuationReflects every module
One ledger — purchase, WIP and FG agree
05 — Accounts, GST & Dhruv AI

Close the books and ask your data questions

Dispatch and invoices post to accounts with GST, HSN, C-Form and amount-in-words, and to Tally on both the sales and purchase sides. On top, Dhruv AI gives each role a live dashboard, turns a plain-English question into a read-only query through a security sandbox, and clusters reject remarks into labelled themes — so a recurring issue surfaces without anyone hunting for it.

GST master + HSN, C-Form, amount-in-words on invoices
Tally posting on both sides — no double entry
Dhruv AI role dashboards over live ERP data
Plain-English queries and reject-remark clustering
Dhruv AI — Ask anything
Natural-language ERP analytics
"Which OAs are pending dispatch this week?"
"Top 5 items below reorder level?"
"Where is consumption over BOM?"
Cluster: "burr at deburring" — remarks grouped
CEO dashboard: order book, dues, stock value
Read-only sandbox — AI can query, never change data
Full capability set

Everything Fast ERP covers
for discrete manufacturers

Sales & CRM

Enquiry, quotation, Order Acceptance, dispatch, GST invoice and OA-vs-invoice reconciliation, with complaint/service tickets and KooKoo IVR click-to-dial.

Purchase

Purchase estimate by category, PR (incl. PR-against-BOM), PO follow-up, GRN receipt with accept/reject/deviation inspection, and supplier-bill matching.

Inventory & stores

One store engine — receipts, transfers, issues, WIP, FG and kitting — with lot/pallet tracking, per-bin stock, STCKLG ledger, ABC analysis and valuation.

Production & planning

Multi-level and order-specific BOM/BOR, process and route sheets, work orders, WIP to FG transfer, ECN change control and MRP with Gantt machine loading.

Quality & APQP

Receipt, in-process and pre-dispatch inspection that gate every order, plus gauge calibration, NCR and 8D — the full IATF-16949 stack when you need it.

Accounts, GST & Tally

Vouchers, GST master and HSN, C-Form, debit notes, payments and receipts, amount-in-words, and Tally posting on both sales and purchase sides.

FAQ

Discrete manufacturing ERP —
what owners and managers ask us

Does Fast ERP handle both make-to-order and make-to-stock?

Yes. Made-to-order runs against a customer OA with an order-specific BOM; make-to-stock runs as an internal work order — both through the same issue, WIP and FG-transfer flow on one shared stock ledger.

Is Fast ERP only for discrete manufacturers?

No. This page leads with the job-shop and batch angle, but Fast ERP serves manufacturing businesses of every kind — automotive, project/construction and growing SMEs — in India and worldwide, cloud or on-premise.

How does quote-to-cash work?

Enquiry → quotation → Order Acceptance → BOM and production → pre-dispatch inspection → delivery challan → GST invoice, with an OA-vs-invoice reconciliation and posting to Tally.

Does everything post to one stock ledger?

Yes. Receipts, transfers, issues, WIP and finished goods all post through one store engine to a single per-bin balance and STCKLG ledger, so valuation and stock MIS reflect every module.

Can it run in the cloud?

Yes. Fast ERP runs cloud or on-premise over one SQL Server database — the same modules either way, for manufacturers across India and worldwide.

Is it proven in real plants?

Yes — the same platform is deployed at reference manufacturers including Nikhtish Engineering, Micro India and Solidus Global, each running a different mix of the modules described here.

Other industries

Fast ERP is also built for

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