Reel purchase to cut-sheet dispatch on one system: buy reels in MT and Kg, convert to sheets and reams with reel-to-sheet BOMs, track trim and wastage, cost every ream on real data, schedule sheeting and guillotine machines, and bill on the correct paper HSN. Built for paper converters and cut-sheet units across India.
A paper cutting unit buys weight and sells count: reels come in by the tonne, sheets go out by the ream. The margin lives in the conversion, in the trim, and in machine utilisation. Accounting software sees none of that. These are the failures we hear from converters every week:
You buy a reel by weight and sell sheets by the ream. When the same paper is tracked in Kg on the buy side and reams on the sell side with no conversion between them, stock never reconciles and nobody can tell the real margin on an order.
Every cut leaves trim: edge trim, off-cuts, size changes. When wastage is recorded nowhere, a job that looked profitable on the quote loses money in the bin, and you only find out when the reel finishes short of the sheets it should have made.
One deckle of a given GSM can be cut to several sheet sizes. Without a reel-to-sheet plan, operators decide on the floor, over-cut one size and run short on another, and reels get opened that should have stayed sealed.
Reel landed cost, cutting cost, and trim loss decide the true cost of a ream. Priced from a rough per-ream number, low-GSM runs and odd sizes quietly bleed margin, order after order.
Sheeter and guillotine capacity is finite. Planning on a pad means one machine sits idle while a job that fits its deckle queues behind the wrong one. Every idle sheeting hour is margin you never get back.
Reels come in, cutting runs over days, and billing happens at month end from registers and memory. Jobs get missed and never billed, the wrong paper HSN goes on the invoice, and collections drag because invoices go out late.
This is the flow ERPDrive runs for a cutting unit. Each step closes one of the failures above:
Reels are received by weight, with grade, GSM, deckle size, and mill recorded against the purchase. Every reel is tagged and traceable from the first minute, so you always know what is on the floor and what it cost.
Define how a reel converts to cut-sheet SKUs: which sheet sizes come out of which deckle, the sheets produced per Kg, and the expected trim. The BOM drives conversion, consumption, and costing, so the plan is set before the reel is opened.
Finished stock is cut-sheet SKUs measured in reams and packets, by size and GSM. The system converts the reel weight consumed into reams produced, so the buy side in Kg and the sell side in reams reconcile against the same reel.
Actual trim and off-cut are recorded per cutting job against the BOM's expected trim. Variance is visible per reel and per order, so a job losing money in the bin is caught while the reel is still running, not after.
Every machine is defined by its maximum deckle and throughput. The scheduler matches waiting jobs to machines that can actually run them, so wide reels stop queueing behind narrow sheeters and idle capacity becomes visible instead of invisible.
When you cut on job-work for a trader, the reel belongs to the customer. Inward reel, cutting, and sheet return are tracked with job-work challans and the correct ITC-04 flow, so material sent and received always ties out.
Reel landed cost, cutting cost, and trim loss roll up to a real cost per ream for each size and GSM. Pricing is set against data, so odd sizes and low-GSM runs stop draining margin.
When a cutting job is completed, a draft bill is created from that customer's rate card. You review, confirm, and raise a GST invoice on the correct paper HSN, with e-invoice and e-way bill where applicable. Nothing completed goes unbilled.
Every capability below is part of the ERPDrive Paper Edition, built on the platform that 500+ manufacturers across India already run on:
Reels received by weight, with grade, GSM, deckle, and mill; every reel tagged and traceable to its purchase and cost.
Grade, GSM, deckle size, brightness, and mill held per reel, so the same paper is identified the same way every time.
Sheet sizes, sheets per Kg, and expected trim per deckle and GSM; the BOM drives conversion and costing.
Finished stock by size and GSM, measured in reams and packets, with automatic Kg-to-ream conversion.
Actual trim captured against expected; variance visible per reel and per order, so wastage stops hiding.
Machine capacity by deckle and throughput; jobs matched to machines that can run them.
Reel landed cost, cutting cost, and trim loss rolled up to a true cost per ream for pricing on data.
Customer-owned reels tracked inward to return with challans and the correct ITC-04 flow.
Agreed rates per customer, size, and GSM applied automatically; rate disputes end because the rate is on record.
Reel store and finished-sheet store tracked separately, so raw reels and cut reams never get confused.
GST-compliant invoices on the correct paper HSN, with e-invoice and e-way bill where applicable.
Margin per cutting job and per customer, after real trim and cutting cost, not a guess.
ERPDrive Paper Edition runs as a dedicated deployment: your own instance, your own database. For a conversion business, that separation is not a luxury:
Reels are received by weight in MT and Kg with grade, GSM, and deckle size. Finished stock is cut-sheet SKUs measured in reams and packets. A reel-to-sheet BOM defines sheets per Kg for each size, so the system converts the reel weight consumed into reams produced. Both the buy side and the sell side reconcile against the same reel, so stock and margin are accurate.
Yes. Each reel-to-sheet BOM carries an expected trim allowance. When a cutting job is recorded, the actual trim and off-cut are captured against that expected value, so wastage variance is visible per reel and per order. Jobs that lose margin in the bin surface immediately instead of at the end of the reel.
The reel landed cost, the cutting cost, and the trim loss roll up to a true cost per ream for each sheet size and GSM. Pricing is set against real cost, so low-GSM runs and odd sizes stop quietly bleeding margin.
Yes. When you cut on job-work, the reel belongs to your customer. ERPDrive tracks the inward reel, the cutting, and the sheet return with job-work challans and the correct ITC-04 flow, so material sent and received always reconciles.
Yes. Invoices are raised with the correct paper HSN and GST treatment, including e-invoice and e-way bill where applicable. When a cutting job is completed a draft bill is created from that customer's rate card, which you review and convert to a GST invoice, so no completed job goes unbilled.
Yes. The Paper Edition runs as a dedicated deployment: your own instance and your own database, separate from other companies, so your reel costs, rate cards, and customer data stay in an environment that is yours alone. It is built on the same ERPDrive platform that 500+ manufacturers across India already run on.
This is the Paper navigation in ERPDrive: every reel, cutting job, and bill lives in these screens.
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