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Manufacturing

Manufacturing Software Development for Factories & Job-Work Units

Nicco Web Solutions provides manufacturing software development for discrete and process manufacturers, engineering workshops, job-work units, and food and packaging plants. We build the systems that turn a sales order into a production plan, a material requirement, a set of quality checks, and finally a dispatch, so the planning desk, stores, shop floor, and accounts work from the same numbers.

Two of our own products cover parts of a factory’s needs: StockCore for stock across warehouses and bins, and PeopleCore for attendance, leave, and payroll. Production orders, bills of materials, routings, and quality inspection differ from plant to plant, so those are custom ERP modules we design with you and connect to the products or to your existing accounting software.

Our engineering team is based in Tamil Nadu, India, and we deliver remotely to manufacturers in India and other countries, with planned working-hour overlap for teams in other time zones.

  • Sales orders to production plans
  • Bills of materials and routings
  • Raw material and WIP stock
  • Quality inspection records
  • Dispatch documents
  • Plant and management dashboards
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Partial ready-made fit StockCore and PeopleCore cover inventory and HR; production and quality modules are built for your plant.
Industry Challenges

Where Factories Lose Time and Material

What plant heads, production managers, and owners of manufacturing units describe to us.
Production supervisor in safety glasses holding a tablet with a production dashboard beside CNC machines and machined metal parts, with sparks in the background
Order to dispatchEvery hand-off between sales, planning, stores, production, and quality is a point where status gets lost.

Plans that live in spreadsheets

Production schedules are built in Excel and shared as printouts, so changes in priority or machine availability reach the floor late.

Shortages discovered on the floor

Raw material and component stock is not linked to the bill of materials, so shortages show up only when a job is ready to start.

No live view of work in progress

Supervisors walk the floor or phone around to find out which stage an order has reached and how much is left to make.

Quality records on paper

Inspection results, rejections, and rework are written in registers, making it hard to trace a defect back to a batch, machine, or shift.

Breakdowns instead of maintenance

Preventive maintenance is tracked from memory, so machines stop at the worst moment and downtime goes unrecorded.

Dispatch details typed twice

Packing lists, invoices, and delivery documents are prepared separately from production records, with the same data entered more than once.

Software Solutions

Manufacturing Software We Design and Build

Modules are scoped plant by plant. Most factories start with one area and connect the rest as each module proves itself on the floor.
Planning

From Sales Order to Production Schedule

Sales or work orders converted into production orders, scheduled against machines, lines, and shifts, with job cards issued to the floor and priorities changed in one place when plans shift.

  • Machine and line loading by day and shift.
  • Job cards with drawings, specifications, and instructions.
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Automation Opportunities

Repetitive Factory Work Worth Automating

Automation pays off on the paperwork around production — calculations, reminders, and reports. Planning decisions and quality sign-off stay with your engineers and supervisors.

  1. Material requirements from planned orders

    Planned production is run through the bill of materials to produce shortage lists and draft purchase requests for approval.

  2. Reorder alerts for stores

    Minimum levels for raw materials, consumables, and spares raise alerts before the floor runs short.

  3. Maintenance reminders

    Preventive maintenance tasks are raised by date or recorded running hours and assigned to the maintenance team.

  4. Shift and daily production reports

    Output, rejections, and downtime are compiled into a shift or day report for management without manual collation.

  5. Accounting hand-off

    Dispatch and invoice data can be exported or synced to Tally or your accounting system, so accounts do not type it again.

Use Cases

Manufacturing Use Cases

Typical starting points. Each one is scoped to the plant’s own products, machines, and paperwork.

Engineering and machining workshop

Job cards, drawing-linked work orders, operation tracking, and inspection reports for make-to-order parts.

Job-work and subcontracting unit

Material received from customers, job-work challans, process tracking, and return of finished goods with balances per customer.

Food and process manufacturing

Batch production, recipe-based material use, batch and expiry tracking, and quality records for every batch.

Packaging and plastics

Order-wise production on presses or extruders, roll or batch tracking, scrap recording, and dispatch planning.

Textile and garment units

Order-wise cutting, stitching, and finishing stages with piece counts and quality checks at each stage.

Multi-plant manufacturer

Stock transfers between plants and warehouses, central purchasing, and consolidated production dashboards.

Nicco SaaS Products

Products That Cover Part of a Factory’s Needs

StockCore and PeopleCore handle inventory and HR. Production planning, bills of materials, and quality are custom modules built for your plant and connected to them.

StockCore

Multi-tenant inventory software with live stock by warehouse and bin, transfers checked at each end, and batch and expiry tracking. In a factory it can run raw material, component, and finished goods stores. Bills of materials and production orders are not part of StockCore; we build those as custom modules connected to it.

  • Live stock by warehouse and bin
  • Transfers with a gate at each end
  • Batch, expiry, and floor POS
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PeopleCore

HR and payroll software for attendance, leave, hiring, appraisals, and employee self-service, suitable for plant and office staff. Factory-specific needs such as shift rosters, contract labour, or piece-rate wages are checked in a demo and built as extensions where needed.

  • Payroll, attendance, and leave
  • Recruitment ATS and appraisals
  • Five roles, seat licensing
View PeopleCore
Related Services

Services Behind Manufacturing Projects

How We Work

How a Manufacturing Software Project Runs

We start on the shop floor, not in a meeting room, and release modules in an order that does not disrupt production.
01

Floor walk and discovery

We follow an order from sales through planning, stores, production, quality, and dispatch to see where information is written down, re-typed, or lost.
02

Data model and screens

Parts, BOMs, routings, machines, and roles are modelled, and supervisor screens are designed with UI/UX input for use on the floor.
03

Build and pilot on one line

Modules are built in sprints and piloted on a single product line or department before wider rollout.
04

Master data and training

Item masters, BOMs, opening stock, and machine lists are cleaned and imported; operators, supervisors, and stores staff are trained by role.
05

Staged rollout and support

Remaining lines or plants come on in stages, with a support plan agreed at handover for fixes, updates, backups, and new modules.
FAQ

Manufacturing Software Questions

Answers to the questions plant heads and factory owners ask us most.
  • 01. Do we need a full ERP, or can we start with one module?
    You can start with one area — often inventory, production tracking, or quality — and add modules over time. We design the data model so later modules connect to what is already running instead of replacing it.
  • 02. Can StockCore and PeopleCore be used in a factory?
    They cover part of the picture. StockCore manages stock across warehouses and bins with batch and expiry tracking, and PeopleCore handles attendance, leave, payroll, and hiring. Production planning, bills of materials, and quality inspection are custom modules we build and connect to them. A demo of both is the best way to see how much they cover for your plant.
  • 03. Will it work with Tally or our existing accounting software?
    Usually, yes. Tally and most accounting systems with an export or API can be connected, so invoice and stock data is entered once. We confirm the exact method during discovery.
  • 04. Can you connect our machines or PLCs?
    It depends on the machine. Where a machine or controller provides data through an export, interface, or API, we review its documentation during discovery and confirm what can be captured before quoting. Where it does not, supervisors record output and downtime on a tablet, which is often enough to start.
  • 05. Will the software work on a shop floor with patchy internet?
    Supervisor and operator apps can be built with offline entry that syncs when the connection returns. We check network coverage on the floor during discovery, since it decides which screens need to work offline.
  • 06. How do you handle our item masters and BOMs during migration?
    We take exports from your current software or spreadsheets, clean duplicate and inconsistent item codes, and import them into a test system for your team to verify before go-live. Clean master data makes every later module easier, so we give it time.
  • 07. Do you work with manufacturers outside India?
    We deliver remotely, so location is not a barrier. For teams in other time zones we schedule regular working-hour overlap; India Standard Time is UTC+5:30. Local tax and documentation rules are reviewed with you and your advisers during discovery.
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Talk through how an order moves through your plant

Tell us where planning, materials, quality, or dispatch slow down. We will suggest which modules to build first and where StockCore or PeopleCore can cover part of the work.

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