Manufacturing for garment factories and small manufacturers in Bangladesh
Bill of materials, production plans, work orders and finished goods tracking exist as a module that is switched off while we finish it. We will tell you the timeline honestly rather than sell it early.
This is the part where we have to be straight with you. The manufacturing module exists in the codebase, covering bills of materials, production plans, work orders, execution, finished goods and waste, and it is switched off. It is on the roadmap, not available.
What that means practically is that SORS ERP today handles the business around production, meaning HR and payroll, attendance, procurement, stores, assets, accounting and VAT, but not production planning itself. If bills of materials and work orders are the reason you are looking, this is not the right system for you yet, and you should know that now rather than after a migration.
What goes wrong for garment factories
Everyday problems in this trade, from the industry guide.
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Salary sheet built in Excel
Attendance is exported from the device, overtime is added by hand, and advances and deductions are remembered. One wrong cell and the whole floor knows by lunchtime on payday.
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Overtime and shifts hard to prove
Buyers and auditors ask for attendance and overtime records. When punches, shift rosters and pay live in different files, producing a clean record for a compliance audit takes days.
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Attendance devices not connected
The ZKTeco machine at the gate stores punches locally. Someone downloads them with a pen drive, and late or missing downloads mean disputed attendance and delayed pay for everyone.
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Purchases and stock untracked
Fabric, trims, thread and machine spares are bought on request and issued without records. Nobody knows what is in the store or what the last supplier charged for the same item.
Production planning on the roadmap
How Manufacturing handles it.
Bill of materials, production plans, work orders and finished goods tracking exist as a module that is switched off while we finish it. We will tell you the timeline honestly rather than sell it early.
What you get
The parts of Manufacturing that matter most here.
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Bill of materials (planned)
Define the components, quantities and units that make one finished item. A BOM is planned to drive material requirements for a production plan and the stock issue when a work order starts.
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Production plans and templates (planned)
Planned: set a quantity of finished goods for a period, check the materials needed against stock, and save recurring plans as templates so a regular weekly run is set up in a minute.
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Pipelines and work orders (planned)
Planned: define the stages a job passes through, such as cutting, sewing, finishing and packing, then issue work orders against a plan and move them stage by stage so the floor supervisor sees what is where.
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Production execution (planned)
Planned: record actual output against a work order, with materials consumed from the godown and labour or overhead noted, so planned versus actual quantity and efficiency can be reported per order and per line.
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Finished goods to stock (planned)
Planned: completed units are received into inventory as finished goods with a cost built from materials used, ready to sell through POS, invoices or the online shop like any other item, with serial or batch numbers where needed.
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Waste goods tracking (planned)
Planned: log rejected units, offcuts and spoilage against the work order with a reason, so waste percentage by product and by stage is visible and the material cost of waste is not silently absorbed into margin.
A working day for garment factories
The sequence this trade actually runs, from the industry guide.
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Workers punch in at the gate
ZKTeco punches sync to the ERP through the LAN agent. Late arrivals, absences and shift mismatches show up on the attendance dashboard the same morning.
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Supervisors approve overtime and leave
Overtime entries and leave applications go through the approval workflow. Corrections to attendance are recorded with a reason and an audit trail.
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Store issues materials against requisitions
Requisitions are finalised into purchase orders where needed, goods are received with a GRN, and store stock updates for fabric, trims and spares.
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Payroll is processed for the period
Salary structures, attendance, overtime, advances and tax slabs produce the payroll. It moves through process, approve, disburse and finalise, and payslips are generated.
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Accounts close the month
Payroll, purchases and expenses have posted automatically. Bank reconciliation is done, the period is locked and the Mushak return summary is reviewed.
Questions
Answered plainly, including where the answer is no.
When will manufacturing be available?
We are not putting a date on it, because a date we miss is worse than no date. The module is built and switched off pending the work needed to support it properly. Ask during a demo and we will tell you where it actually stands.
What can I use today if I run a factory?
HR and payroll with biometric attendance, procurement with approvals, stores and stock across warehouses, asset management with depreciation, and full accounting with VAT and cost centres. That is a substantial part of a factory's administration, but it is not production planning.
See SORS ERP running on your own numbers
A 30-minute demo in Bangla or English, with your products, your VAT setup and your questions.