Multi-level BOMs & ECO
Recursive explosion for deep assemblies, circular-BOM guardrails, and engineering change orders with reasons and approvals. Effective-from and effective-to dates on every revision.
See how BOMs workBuilt for discrete manufacturing in India
Manufacturing ERP
engineered for MSMEs.
Your storekeeper, your planner and your accountant should be looking at the same numbers. NextGenManager connects the shop floor to the ledger — multi-level BOMs, piece-rate costing and GST job-work compliance in one system, without a three-month training course.
- Demo on your own part numbers
- No card, no obligation
- Reply within one working day
Running production, costing and compliance for Indian engineering firms
Process Equipment Corporation
- Machine building & SPM
- Auto components
- Pumps & valves
- Process equipment
- CNC job shops
- Panels & switchgear
- Tool rooms & dies
- Material handling
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The gap nobody's software covers
Tally can't see your shop floor. Excel can't do your ledger.
So most Indian MSMEs run both, and paper over the seam by hand. That seam is where margin quietly disappears.
Today Two systems and a lot of retyping
- BOMs live in one engineer's Excel file, and in their head.
- Job-work challans are tracked in a paper register; the statutory return clock is somebody's memory.
- Operators paid ₹4.50 per hole get costed at a machine-hour rate, so quotes are guesses.
- Stock value in Tally and stock on the rack disagree, and nobody knows by how much.
- You learn a job lost money at year end, not when you quoted it.
With NextGenManager One record, start to finish
- Multi-level BOMs with ECO numbers and approvals — a revision is a tracked event, not a WhatsApp message.
- Challans carry Section 143 / Rule 45 fields, and every dispatch starts its own return clock.
- Four costing modes, including rate × quantity, so piece-rate labour costs what it actually costs.
- Every material issue posts to the general ledger as it happens, with a stock-vs-GL reconciliation report.
- You see the margin on a job while it is still running.
The platform
Everything a discrete manufacturer runs on
Nine modules that share one data model, so a number entered on the floor is the same number your CA sees.
Costing that matches your payroll
Rate × quantity for piece-rate work, calculated hourly with setup and run time, flat fixed rate, or subcontracted per unit. Plus a configurable overhead percentage on the rollup.
Compare the four modesJob work, the Indian way
Delivery challans with GST Section 143 and Rule 45 fields built in. Every dispatch carries a return-by date and an ageing clock, so an overdue vendor surfaces before your CA finds it.
Job-work tracking in detailPerpetual inventory
Goods receipts, issues and production output move stock and post journals in the same transaction. Immutable movement logs behind every line, with batch and serial traceability.
Inventory & traceabilityAccounting built for India
Sales invoices, vendor bills and production runs post their own journal entries. GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B generation, period locking, and TDS deducted at the payment point.
Accounting & GSTQuality & approvals
QA parameters and test templates per item, rejection reason codes that roll into yield reporting, and a configurable approval framework on the documents that matter.
Quality controlWhy costing is the whole game
Your operator is paid ₹4.50 a hole. Your ERP should know that.
Almost every ERP on the market assumes labour is paid by the hour, because almost every ERP was designed somewhere that is true. Force a machine-hour rate onto piece-rate work and every quote you produce afterwards is fiction.
NextGenManager treats the costing mode as a property of the operation, not an afterthought. A drilling operation billed per hole, a lathe billed per hour, an inspection billed flat and a plating step billed per unit by a job worker can all sit on the same routing — and the rolled-up cost is still right.
Operation costing — Strainer body
Live rollup| Operation | Mode | Rate | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rough turning | Calculated hourly | ₹420/hr | ₹315.00 |
| Drilling — 24 holes | Rate × quantity | ₹4.50/hole | ₹108.00 |
| Hard chrome plating | Subcontracted | ₹180/unit | ₹180.00 |
| Final inspection | Fixed rate | ₹95.00 | ₹95.00 |
| Overhead @ 45% (excludes subcontract) | ₹233.10 | ||
Total operation cost per unit₹ 931.10
4
Operation costing modes
1yr
Sec 143 input return window, tracked per challan
9
Modules on one data model
₹0
Per-user seat licences
Why manufacturers pick us
Five reasons this one actually gets used
Most failed ERP projects don't fail on features. They fail on adoption, price and honesty.
Priced per plant, not per person
Charging per seat is how ERPs end up half-used: the storekeeper never gets a login, so stock is entered a day late by somebody else. One fee, whole team, no negotiation about who gets access.
Straight answers, quickly
Ask us anything about how the product handles your process and you get a direct answer on the first call — from an engineer who knows the system, not a sales script.
You talk to the people who build it
This is our own product, not a reseller badge on somebody else's software. When you report a costing bug you reach an engineer who can open the file, not a ticket queue.
Your data stays yours
Cloud hosting in India, or on a server in your own office if you prefer. Full export whenever you want it, in formats your CA can read. No hostage-taking at renewal.
Go live mid-year
Opening balances load at any date. You do not have to wait for 1 April, and you do not have to run two systems in parallel for six months to bridge the gap.
Built for how Indian shops actually run
Piece-rate labour, half the process at job workers, GST sitting on top of all of it. These are the default cases here, not customisations quoted separately.
How we work
From first call to running on real orders
The software is the easy part. The project is your item master, your BOMs and getting the floor to enter data the same way twice. We run implementation in five stages so you always know what is next and who owns it.
See the full processFit check
You describe what you make and how you're paid. We tell you straight whether we fit — before anyone talks about price.
Demo on your data
We load one of your real assemblies and run it end to end: BOM, routing, costing, challan, invoice.
Data migration
Items, BOMs, parties and opening balances. This is the part that decides your timeline, so we scope it before you commit.
Case study
Process Equipment Corporation
A discrete manufacturer running multi-level assemblies with a significant share of the process at outside job workers — the exact shape of problem NextGenManager was built for.
- Multi-level BOMs with ECO-controlled revisions replacing engineer-owned spreadsheets.
- Job-work challans issued from the system, with the return window tracked per dispatch.
- Operation costing across in-house and subcontracted steps in a single rollup.
- Stock movements posting to the ledger as they happen, with a reconciliation report.
Deployment scope
| Item master & multi-level BOM | Live |
| Work orders & operation costing | Live |
| Job work & Section 143 challans | Live |
| Inventory, GRN & issues | Live |
| Sales orders & tax invoices | Live |
| Accounting, GST & TDS | Live |
Honest comparison
How the three options compare
You are probably choosing between three things. Here is where each one lands for an Indian MSME.
| Tally + Excel | Global tier-1 ERP | NextGenManager | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual cost | Lowest — but paid in staff time | Very high, plus per-seat licences | Fixed per plant |
| Shop-floor depth | None — the floor is outside the system | Deep, if you configure it | Deep by default |
| GST job work (Sec 143) | Manual register | Usually a paid localisation add-on | Core feature |
| Piece-rate costing | Spreadsheet, if anyone maintains it | Rarely modelled natively | One of four modes |
| Time to live | Already running | 6–18 months | Weeks to a few months |
Not sure which column you belong in? Ask us and get honest advice
Common questions
The things buyers ask first
You can keep Tally for statutory filing and use NextGenManager for everything operational, or migrate fully. Opening balances load at any date, so you don't have to wait for a new financial year to go live.
Yes, on the Enterprise plan. Plenty of manufacturers want production data on a machine they can physically point at, and the system is built to run either way — same product, same updates.
It depends almost entirely on the state of your item master and BOMs. A shop with clean part numbers can be live in a few weeks. A shop where the BOMs live in one person's head takes longer — and mapping that knowledge is the real project, not the software setup.
That is the question that decides whether an ERP project succeeds, and we take it seriously. Screens for high-frequency floor tasks — goods receipt, material issue, production entry — are built to be completed in a few fields. We would rather show you those screens in the demo than argue about it here.
Bring us your toughest assembly.
We will build its BOM, route it, cost it across all four modes and raise a job-work challan against it — live, on the call, with your part numbers.
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