The problem
A corrugation and carton business deals with numbers that generic software doesn't understand: reel sizes and weights, paper GSM, 3, 5 and 7-ply boards, cutting sizes, sheets and rolls. In my factory these lived in Excel sheets, registers and phone calls.
Costing a carton meant manual calculation. Orders were copied into delivery challans, challans into invoices and invoices into ledgers by hand. Reel stock was a guess until someone walked into the store and counted.
The approach
Instead of bending a generic ERP to fit, I wrote the system around the factory's real documents and the way the team already worked. Every screen was used on the factory floor first, by the people who enter the data, and changed until it was faster than the old way.
What OnePackERP does
Packaging (cartons and boxes)
- Box costing and roll calculation by size, ply and cutting
- Sizes in inches, centimetres or millimetres
- Boxes and sheets in the same order
- Rate memory per customer, size and ply
- Orders → delivery challans → invoices
- FBR digital invoicing with QR
Corrugation (reels, rolls and sheets)
- Reel stock by size, paper and weight
- Production that takes reels out of stock
- Leftover reel weight goes back to stock
- Roll and sheet production and stock
- Purchase challans with per-reel rates
- Supplier ledger matched to delivery challans
Across the business
- Customer ledgers updated by every invoice
- Packaging and corrugation kept separate
- Each company's data fully isolated
- Keyboard-first entry for fast operators
- Works on PCs and phones in the browser
- Owner dashboard for the day's numbers
The result
The factory now runs its orders, challans, invoices, ledgers, reel stock and production on OnePackERP every day. Because the system was shaped by daily use rather than a specification document, other packaging manufacturers recognised their own workflow in it, and it became a subscription product for them.
The same approach is what I bring to client projects: start from how the business actually runs, show a working demo early, and improve it with the people who use it. Read more about custom ERP software for businesses in Pakistan.
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