Operations visibility for manufacturers tired of running on spreadsheets
Manufacturing ERP for Indian SMEs — raw material purchasing, inventory, GST invoicing and service contracts, no year-long rollout.
The challenge
Manufacturers in India typically run production planning on whiteboards, track raw material and finished goods inventory in Excel, and reconcile purchase orders with vendor bills at month-end by hand. As order volume grows, the gap between what’s on the production floor and what’s in the system widens — stock mismatches, missed reorder points and under-billed sales become chronic rather than occasional.
GST compliance adds a persistent layer of complexity: raw material procurement carries input tax credit claims, finished goods sales require the correct CGST/SGST or IGST split based on the customer’s state, and a business using separate tools for purchasing, inventory and invoicing has to reconcile tax data across all three manually at each filing deadline.
Manufacturing ERP software built for large enterprises — SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics — is priced and structured for dedicated IT teams and multi-year rollouts. Small and mid-size manufacturers in India need the same core discipline (vendor purchasing → stock → production → customer billing) without a year-long implementation project. The gap between "too basic" (a billing tool and some spreadsheets) and "too complex" (enterprise MRP) is exactly where most Indian manufacturers operate for longer than they should.
How DexVee helps
Purchase-to-invoice discipline, without an enterprise ERP budget
Manufacturers typically run DexVee’s Inventory, Finance and CRM modules together — raw material purchasing, stock tracking and finished-goods billing share one product catalog and one GST engine, so numbers agree across departments without a monthly reconciliation exercise.
Raw material & finished goods inventory
Track raw materials and finished goods in the same catalog, with batch-level traceability, reorder rules and multi-location stock visibility — so procurement decisions are driven by actual stock levels, not a weekly hand count.
Purchase order to vendor bill
Purchase orders track delivery and invoicing coverage per line item automatically, so a partial delivery is never accidentally fully billed and a missed receipt doesn’t slip through month-end.
GST-compliant sales invoicing
Sales invoices calculate CGST/SGST/IGST automatically from billing address and GSTIN — including multi-GSTIN manufacturers with more than one plant or registered office billing from different states.
Reorder rules and procurement signals
Configurable reorder thresholds trigger a purchasing signal before raw material stock runs critically low, replacing the "someone noticed the bin is empty" discovery process that stalls production.
AMC and service contract billing
Manufacturers who sell equipment alongside products can track AMC contracts and generate recurring service invoices automatically, so maintenance revenue is billed on time without a manual reminder.
Role-based purchase approvals
Purchase orders and high-value commitments route through configurable approval steps before being issued to vendors, so procurement spend isn’t committed unilaterally on the production floor.
What this looks like in practice
- A procurement manager sees actual raw material stock levels and pending POs in one screen before placing a new vendor order — no separate inventory check.
- GST is applied correctly to every sale automatically, based on billing address and GSTIN, without a manual tax calculation step before each invoice.
- A vendor payment audit shows exactly which PO each bill was raised against, with line-item invoicing coverage — no month-end spreadsheet reconciliation.
Frequently asked questions
DexVee covers the commercial operations layer every manufacturer needs — inventory, vendor purchasing, GST invoicing and sales — without the production scheduling and MRP features that large-enterprise manufacturing ERPs carry (and price for). If you’re a small or mid-size manufacturer in India who needs purchase-to-invoice discipline, real stock tracking and GST-compliant billing, DexVee is built at your scale and can be running in days, not months.
Yes — DexVee’s product catalog handles both raw materials and finished goods in the same system, with batch-level traceability so a raw material receipt can be traced through to the finished goods it was used in. Reorder rules and low-stock alerts work independently for raw material and finished goods stock levels.
Yes. DexVee supports multi-GSTIN organisations, applying the correct GSTIN and automatically determining CGST/SGST (intra-state) vs IGST (inter-state) based on your billing office and the customer’s shipping address. Manufacturers with plants or registered offices across states are explicitly supported, with each office billing from the correct GST registration.
From our Insights
Structuring Inventory Across Warehouses
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Approval Workflows That Don't Bottleneck
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Setting Reorder Points That Actually Work
Most reorder points are guessed, not calculated. Here's a straightforward method that accounts for lead time and demand variability.
How Multi-GSTIN Billing Actually Works
A practical breakdown of CGST/SGST vs IGST determination, multi-registration billing, and the mistakes we see growing businesses make.
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