"We bought software. Why is everyone still typing?"
Every factory has capable people spending their day copying paper into screens. Our software removes that layer of work entirely. Data-entry operators become accountability officers — people accountable for whether the business is right, not people typing what already happened.
That is the promise, and it is a harder one than it sounds. None of this needed new magic — end-to-end automation was always possible. What we have seen, time and again, is software implementations that stop short: the system holds the data, and a person fills the gap between one step and the next, forever. We don't stop there. Wherever a task needs no human judgment, the software does it. Your people intervene only where their judgment adds value — nowhere else.
The premise behind the promise: at one garment manufacturer, sales invoicing was once a dedicated, full-time role — and errors still got through. Today no human touches a sales invoice there. The invoice raises itself from the goods-movement records, and billing errors stand at zero. The role no longer exists — those people now do work a machine can't.
Easier than pen and paper. That is the bar.
If your team records something anywhere today — a register, a notebook, an old system — our screens will be easier than that. Not comparable: easier. Little to no training to start, because the screen asks for what the operator already knows, in the order the work already happens. When software is genuinely easier than the alternative, there are no excuses left on the floor — and adoption stops being a battle.
We are not measuring ourselves against software that never reached real users. We are measuring ourselves against the big systems that ship management's view of the work and ignore the people who actually do it.
We hold this bar because we've been the customer. For years, our parent company — a garment manufacturer — paid software vendors and heard the same answer: "this is what we have, you have to use it like that." That is a real pain, and we know it first-hand. It is the reason we built our own software. We will not repeat that pain on you.
Knit fabric doesn't arrive in tidy units — a bale arrives as several rolls of different true lengths. Our stock holds it that way: bale numbers, individual roll measurements, lot and shade references, carried through from goods receipt to the finished garment. Pick a specific lot for a specific order or client; trace any roll back to its bale.
Fabric and job card issued to cutting; actual consumption — including what the floor optimises — recorded against it; balance fabric returned batch-wise to warehouse stock. The same issued-versus-actual discipline runs the whole line: cutting → stitching (piece-wise, to individual tailors) → ironing. Nothing leaves a department unaccounted.
Goods movement in and out of every department — every delivery challan (DC) and goods receipt note (GRN) — recorded once, accountable end to end, 100% off paper. At peak, a single operator handles around 50 DCs and GRNs a day.
Fabric requirement per piece, in metres, defined once — issue estimates generate themselves.
Because every movement is already in the system, the sales invoice needs no author. This is the workflow that eliminated a role — the full story is in the promise section above.
LR details are captured from the document by OCR.
Purchase invoices generate against GRNs with full lot and batch tagging and push into ERPNext, along with journal entries and payments. Accounting stays in the standard, portable system your auditors already know; the manufacturing depth stays in ours. No forked ERP, no bent workflow.
Management reports generate from the live movement records — a monthly reporting cycle that took six days now takes forty minutes.
— that is precisely how we build. We develop exactly what you want, fitted to how you already run, one working piece at a time. We don't hand you a module and ask your business to bend around it.
Our code is inside ERPNext — the open-source ERP adopted by 30,000+ companies worldwide, per Frappe, its publisher. Code accepted into a heavily-reviewed open-source codebase is held to a standard you can rely on. We give you that software and support it. And we give you products of the same quality — built for ourselves first, with the same care. It runs beyond our own floor, too: SIHMA's software is our build.
Well-written, well-documented, full development history — anyone competent can maintain it after us.
The core is open-source ERPNext on a standard database; your data exports whole, in open formats. The exit door exists on day one, by architecture — not by clause.
One trained person is enough to run it — and we do the same again as your team grows. You are never dependent on us to operate your own system.
it will be because of the work — not because leaving is hard.
When entries create themselves, your people stop typing and start verifying. The operator who keyed in DCs becomes the accountability officer — the person who confirms the floor and the system agree, accountable for accuracy rather than transcription. That is what "higher-value work" means here in practice: the same people, doing work that needs their judgment.
At peak, invoicing took three people — two raising, one verifying. Zero-touch invoicing eliminated the role entirely at one garment manufacturer; billing errors now stand at zero.
Every DC and GRN across every department — recorded once, live, no registers.
Bales, rolls, lots and shades tracked as they actually arrive — the workflows standard ERPs struggle with, without forking the ERP.
Pick the one that hurts — goods movement, fabric tracking, invoicing — and we'll show you what it looks like when the software finishes the job.