The March Visibility Shock: When Plants See the Whole Picture Only Once a Year
Every March, a familiar pattern begins to appear inside many manufacturing plants. Stores team begin recounting inventory. Accounts team starts asking for updated WIP numbers. Production supervisors try to close long-running jobs, while purchase team revisit old purchase orders and...
The Capacity Illusion: The Gap Between Installed and Usable Output
Capacity is one of the most referenced figures in manufacturing. It appears in sales commitments, production plans, and expansion decisions. But what it usually represents is potential, not performance. The math is straightforward: installed machines, rated output, available hours. Logically...
How Budget, Trade Deals, and Tariff Shifts Are Reshaping Indian Manufacturing
The time is changing for Indian manufacturing, and it’s changing all at once. New opportunities are opening abroad, new pressures are rising at home, and policies are shifting under active production cycles. When the external world speeds up, stability on...
‘Jugaad’ in Indian Manufacturing: A Superpower That Needs System to Scale
If German manufacturing is often celebrated for its precision, and Japanese manufacturing for its discipline, Indian manufacturing carries a distinct identity of its own – a remarkable capacity for Jugaad. Jugaad (often misunderstood as just a workaround) is not the...
The January-March Trap: Carrying Old WIP Into a New Financial Year
For many Indian manufacturers, what happens between January and March often decides whether your audit is smooth or painful when the financial year closes on March 31. Hence January doesn’t feel like a fresh start. It feels like the beginning...
Vendor Monopolies: Understanding the Risks of Deep Supplier Dependence
Vendor dependence doesn’t hit you like a crisis. It builds slowly, quietly, year after year. A supplier meets your quality standards.They deliver on time.Your team prefers them because coordination feels effortless. And before anyone realises it, one supplier becomes the...
Industry 5.0: The Comeback of Human Intelligence in Manufacturing
Everyone today talks about automation, smart machines, AI-driven production lines, and factories that supposedly run themselves. For the past decade, Industry 4.0 has dominated every conversation and pushed manufacturers toward sensors, IoT dashboards, predictive maintenance, and data-driven workflows. But amid...
When One Person Holds the Process: Risks of Tribal Knowledge in Manufacturing
In every factory, there’s that one person. The go-to expert. The one who knows which machine needs a tap before starting. Which supplier delivers faster if you call after lunch. How to bypass a glitch in the invoice system. They’re...
Swadeshi ERP: Why Local Solutions Are India’s Key to Global Leadership
India is not just a large market; it’s one of the largest in the world for almost any product or brand. That scale is both an opportunity and a responsibility. Recent global trade developments, such as the high tariffs imposed...
Tackling the ₹80 Lakh Crore Credit Crunch: Make Your MSME Lender-Ready with ERP
In 2025, Indian MSMEs are caught between rising demand and limited access to credit. The August 2025 Manufacturing PMI hit a 17-year high of 59.3. That is clearly signaling robust demand across sectors. With GST 2.0’s simplified tax slabs soon...