Practical advice on ERP, inventory, production planning, GST compliance, and running a lean, profitable factory.
The OEMup blog is written for owners and operators of Indian manufacturing SMEs — pump shops, plastic moulders, fabricators, food processors, chemical units — who are tired of running their business on Tally plus four spreadsheets and a WhatsApp group. We focus on practical, factory-floor problems: BOM management when your product has fifty parts, GST e-invoicing without an accountant on call, ITC-04 for job-work, payroll for shop-floor workers, and the operational hygiene that separates a 5-crore factory from a 50-crore one.
Posts are written by the team building OEMup — Komal Sonara (founder, two years on factory floors before writing a line of code), Ayush Patel (developer lead), and Rakesh Soni (team lead) — with primary sources cited where it matters (gov.in for GST regulation, Ministry of MSME for sector data).
The plain-English guide to Section 143 job-work compliance: due dates, the three mandatory documents, time limits, and the five mistakes GST officers flag in audits.
Dead stock, production delays, human errors, and inaccurate costing — discover the four silent margin killers in manual inventory systems.
Large ERP systems were built for large businesses. Here's why the fit is wrong for SMEs — and what purpose-built manufacturing ERP actually looks like.
OEMup, Zoho, TranZact, ERPNext and BUSY scored on the 8 criteria that matter for production. Decision matrix and migration guide included.
Two years walking factory floors across Indian manufacturing clusters, eighty conversations, and the day we finally started writing code.
Where Zoho Inventory's "composite items" stop working, what the full Zoho stack actually costs over 3 years, and a clear migration path.
The 7-step process, manufacturer-specific tips for multi-line BOM invoices and job-work, plus the 10 most common IRP error codes and their fixes.
Multi-level BOMs, work-order WIP, job-work tracking, mobile quoting, payroll-in-accounts — five concrete limits Indian manufacturers hit on Tally.
Side-by-side feature table, 3-year TCO calculation for a 5-user factory, and a clear answer on when to switch from Tally — and when to stay.
