Lab formulation
R&D prepares the formulation for a shade or product in the laboratory.
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A purpose-built ERP for the colour and paint industry — where every product starts as a laboratory formulation and every batch has to be traceable back to it.
Built for colour manufacturers
Generic ERPs treat a bill of materials as a list. In colour manufacturing, it’s a recipe.
Colour and paint manufacturing runs on formulations developed in a laboratory, not on fixed part lists. A shade has to be formulated, approved, scaled to the quantity a customer actually ordered, locked to a specific production batch, and then reconciled against what the floor really consumed — with the formulation itself treated as intellectual property. Off-the-shelf ERPs have no concept of any of this. Ours was built around it, and is in production at a colour manufacturer today.
How it flows
Formulation to finished goods
The full batch production cycle, automated end to end.
Approval
The formulation is formally approved before it can be used in production.
Sales order
A sales order is entered against the product, setting the quantity to produce.
Bill of materials
The approved formulation is scaled into a BOM for the ordered quantity.
Batch card & lock
A batch is created from the BOM and locked, reserving raw material stock against it.
Purchase, if short
Low stock alerts purchasing, which raises a purchase order and books goods in via a Goods Receipt Note.
Production
Stores issue the reserved raw material to the floor; the batch card records actual values against planned.
Pack & dispatch
Finished goods are packed and labelled, drums move to stores, and shipping goes out against the sales order.
Modules
What the system covers
Formulation & R&D
Laboratory formulation preparation with a formal approval workflow, keeping shade recipes controlled and versioned rather than scattered across lab notebooks.
Bill of materials
Conversion of an approved formulation into a bill of materials scaled precisely to the production quantity a sales order requires.
Batch production & traceability
Batch creation and locking, batch card generation, raw-material reservation, and planned-versus-actual consumption recorded per batch.
Stores management
Raw material stock, issue against confirmed BOMs, Goods Receipt Note entry, and the finished-goods stock register through to drums moving to stores.
Purchase & vendors
Low-stock alerting to the purchase department, purchase order management, and vendor records feeding back into raw material stock.
Sales & dispatch
Sales order entry through to fulfilment, packing and labelling of finished goods, and shipping to the customer.
Management reports
Reporting across stock, raw material, batch cards, purchases, vendors, and production.
Custom to your process
Formulation industries rarely run identical processes. Report changes and additional modules are built to the specific requirements of the plant.
In production
Deployed at Monopol Colors, Thane — a working installation in a real colour manufacturing plant, not a reference implementation.
Platform
A desktop client-server application built on .NET and SQL Server.
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