A Plastic Container Manufacturer Running on Memory and Paper

The client runs a manufacturing unit in Bihar producing food-grade plastic containers. With two machines, around ten employees, and more than sixteen product variants, the business was doing serious volume — over ten lakhs a month. But behind that revenue was a system built entirely on paper registers, manual tallies, and the owner's memory. Procurement happened by feel. Inventory was counted physically when someone remembered to do it. Wastage from the manufacturing process — rejected pieces, material loss during moulding — went unrecorded. There was no single place to see what was happening.

We set up SF Inventory System across the manufacturing unit with six users — the owner, the sales person, and the machine operators. The first thing we did was build out the Bill of Materials for each of the sixteen-plus SKUs: exactly how much plastic granule goes into one unit of each container type, with waste percentage built in. From that point, every time a finished product was recorded, the system automatically deducted the correct quantity of raw material from stock — no manual entry, no guesswork. Procurement orders are now logged in the system the moment they happen, giving the owner a live view of what has been spent and what stock has arrived. The billing module handles invoicing directly, connecting sales to inventory in real time. And because SF Inventory System runs on mobile, the owner can check stock levels, review today's sales, and see outstanding receivables from anywhere — the factory floor, home, or travelling — without needing to call anyone.