Resources
Long, specific and occasionally inconvenient. These are the explanations we end up giving on calls, written down so you can read them first.
Tally is excellent accounting software that was never meant to run a shop floor. Seven signs your factory has outgrown it — and how to add a manufacturing ERP while your CA keeps Tally.
Read the guideEvery brochure says "multi-level BOM". Eight things bill-of-materials software actually has to do in an Indian engineering shop, and six demo tests that separate a real BOM engine from a parts list.
Read the guideMost ERP selections go wrong before a demo is booked, because the shortlist is built from feature lists instead of from what actually breaks in your plant. A framework for doing it properly — including the questions vendors hope you will not ask.
Read the guideWhat Section 143 and Rule 45 actually require, the return periods most shops still get wrong, what happens when goods do not come back in time, and why ITC-04 catches people out.
Read the guideIf you pay by the piece and cost by the hour, every quote you produce is wrong — sometimes in your favour, which is worse. A worked example of what that error looks like in rupees.
Read the guideA note on what we publish
We write when we have something worth saying, which means this page grows slowly. There is no newsletter and no content calendar. If you want to know when something new goes up, the simplest thing is to ask on a call, and we will email you personally.
Every article here started as a question on a call. Bring yours — we will answer it in about fifteen minutes, without a slide deck.
