Custom ERP System That Saved a Manufacturing Firm 28 Hours Per Week

With 60+ employees and 3 production lines, Malabar Fabrications were drowning in Excel files. Purchase orders, inventory, production tracking, and invoicing were all manual — leading to frequent stock errors, delayed invoices, and no real-time visibility into production status.

We designed and built a custom Laravel-based ERP:

• Inventory management with real-time stock levels and low-stock alerts
• Purchase order module with vendor management and approval workflows
• Production tracking — job cards, machine scheduling, and quality checkpoints
• Automated invoicing with GST compliance and PDF generation
• Role-based access control for managers, production staff, and accounts
• Dashboard with KPIs: production efficiency, inventory turnover, outstanding payments
• Mobile-responsive for factory floor access on tablets

• 28 staff hours saved per week on manual data entry and reporting
• Data entry errors reduced by 95% (from ~40 errors/week to under 2)
• Invoice generation time reduced from 4 hours to 20 minutes
• Inventory discrepancies eliminated — 99.2% stock accuracy
• ₹3.2L annual savings in labour costs directly attributed to the ERP