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MatruOS for a leather tannery

Set up the way a leather tannery runs: sale of wet-blue, crust and finished leather by the square foot (or wet-blue by the kg or piece) and job tanning for other tanners and traders. Routines, workflows, registers, licences and an AI team that knows the work are ready when you sign up.

Clothing and textilesReady when you sign up

  • 9routines on a timetable
  • 2workflows with approvals
  • 2SOPs and checks
  • 4registers of your own
  • 3jobs for your AI team
  • 12licences tracked

7-day free trial, no card needed.

What this solves

What a leather tannery deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it

01Today

Closure orders from courts and pollution boards; records are not ready when inspectors come. Sq ft yield per hide below expectation and nobody links it to supplier or recipe.

02In MatruOS

MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 2 workflows, 4 registers and 12 licences for a leather tannery, with an AI team that reads your own records and prepares the work.

03What changes

The right person is reminded at the right time, approvals wait for whoever decides, and every licence has a renewal reminder. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval.

Where you sit

MatruOS starts from how your business earns

Who you sell to, who you buy from, how credit moves and where you sit in the chain decide how your screens, reminders and reports are set up.

  1. Abattoir
  2. hide merchant
  3. tannery
  4. finished leather dealer, footwear or goods maker

Your customers

  • Footwear makers and exporters
  • Leather goods and garment makers
  • Finished leather dealers
  • Other tanneries buying wet-blue
  • Overseas buyers

Your suppliers

  • Raw hide and skin merchants
  • Leather chemical suppliers (chrome, syntans, fat liquors, dyes, finishes)
  • Salt and lime suppliers
  • CETP society
  • Machine service firms

Credit and cash

Hides on 15-60 days or cash at Bakrid; chemicals 30-60 days; sells 30-90 days; exports LC or DA 60-90 days

Raw stock bought in bulk at Bakrid and in winter; a hide takes 3-6 weeks to become finished leather; chemicals and CETP fees go out monthly; buyers pay 1-3 months later

Your screens use your words

  • CustomerBuyer
  • ItemArticle
  • SupplierHide merchant
  • productArticle

How it works

How MatruOS is set up for a leather tannery

Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.

  1. Describe the business in one lineFor example "Leather tannery", typed when you sign up.
  2. Recognised as a leather tanneryRoutines, workflows, registers, items, licences and the AI team for this trade are set up for you.
  3. Bring your dataCustomers, items and balances come across from Zoho Books, Vyapar, Excel and others. For Tally, our team helps you move the data while Tally import is checked on the live app.
  4. Approve and runThe AI team prepares the routine work. A person approves anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes.

Your AI team

What the AI team does for a leather tannery

Each job goes to a member of your AI team. It reads your own records and prepares the work. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval.

Operations head

Keeps the daily effluent log complete, flags readings out of limit and missing entries, and assembles an inspection-ready pack with consents, manifests and returns due

Reads effluent and chrome log, CETP manifests and consent dates

Asks you before sending

Store keeper

Works out sq ft per hide and grade mix per batch, compares them by hide merchant, kind and recipe, and links chrome VI and fastness test reports to each lot sold

Reads drum batch card and measurement and grading list

Works it out and shows you

Accountant

Costs chemicals per sq ft for each article and batch, and shows where cost rose against the selling price

Reads drum batch card, chemical issue and sales and dues

Works it out and shows you

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How you run

Your routines, already on a timetable

Each routine has a time, a person and its steps with the checks that matter. MatruOS reminds the right person and keeps the record. Open one to see its steps.

Every day4

  • 7:00 amMorning drum loading planTanning master · 3 steps
    1. 1Check which batches move stage today and which drums are free
    2. 2Issue chemicals by recipe card and weigh them
    3. 3Float pH at the end of pickling
  • 9:00 amDaily effluent and chrome logETP operator · 3 steps
    1. 1Read water and effluent meters
    2. 2pH at outlet to CETP
    3. 3Send spent chrome liquor to recovery, not to the drain
  • 2:00 pmWet-blue boil test and sortingTanning master · 3 steps
    1. 1Boil test a sample from each chrome batch
    2. 2Final pH after basification
    3. 3Sort wet-blue by substance and grade
  • 4:00 pmMeasuring and grading finished leatherSorter and measurer · 3 steps
    1. 1Measure each piece on the machine and print the list
    2. 2Grade A, B, C by grain and defects
    3. 3Enter sq ft per hide for the batch

Every week2

  • MonChemical cost per sq ft by articleAccountant · 2 steps
    1. 1Total chemicals issued per batch by recipe card
    2. 2Divide by sq ft measured and compare with the price sold
  • SatBuyer dues and claimsAccountant · 2 steps
    1. 1List invoices past 60 and 90 days and open claims
    2. 2Send reminders after the owner approves

Every month1

  • 5thCETP bill, sludge and hazardous waste recordsETP operator · 2 steps
    1. 1Pay the CETP charge and file the monthly manifest
    2. 2Record chrome sludge sent to the TSDF with the manifest number

Every year1

  • JunConsent renewal, hazardous waste return and buyer auditOwner · 3 steps
    1. 1File the hazardous waste annual return by 30 June
    2. 2Check CTO validity and renew in time
    3. 3Prepare for the buyer's environmental audit (LWG or equivalent) and chrome VI tests

Workflows

Each stage goes to the person who handles it

Work passes stage by stage to the right person. Stages marked for approval wait for the person who decides.

Raw batch to finished leather sale

  1. 1Raw lot checked and batchedTanning master
  2. 2Beam house and chrome tanningDrum and machine worker
  3. 3Boil test passedTanning masterNeeds approval
  4. 4Retanned, dyed and fat-liquored to crustTanning master
  5. 5Finished to buyer's swatchFinishing in-charge
  6. 6Swatch approved by buyerOwnerNeeds approval
  7. 7Measured and gradedSorter and measurer
  8. 8Invoiced and dispatchedAccountant

Job tanning for another party

  1. 1Raw received on challan and countedSorter and measurer
  2. 2Tanned to wet-blueTanning master
  3. 3Returned with measurement and job billAccountant

Registers and SOPs

Your registers and standards

Registers hold the fields this trade records. SOPs carry the steps and checks, so work is done the same way every time.

  • Drum batch card

    Batch number · Raw lot and supplier · Kind · Pieces · Raw weight (kg) · Status · Recipe card number · Chrome used (kg)

  • Measurement and grading list

    Batch number · Article and colour · Pieces · Total sq ft · Sq ft per hide or skin · Grade A pieces · Grade B pieces · Grade C and rejects

  • Effluent and chrome log

    Date · Water used (kl) · Effluent to CETP (kl) · Chrome liquor to recovery (kl) · pH at outlet · Total chromium (mg/l) · Chrome sludge stored (kg) · CETP manifest number

  • Sales and dues

    Invoice number · Buyer · Article · Sq ft · Rate per sq ft · Due date · Received · Claim

  • Chrome tanning and boil test

    Make wet-blue that is fully tanned, even in colour and low in chrome VI risk

    5 steps with checks

  • Effluent, chrome and sludge compliance

    Keep the tannery open by meeting discharge standards and keeping records ready for inspection

    5 steps with checks

Items and licences

Your first bill is right, and no licence lapses

Starter items arrive with unit, HSN and GST rate. The registrations this business usually needs are listed with a reminder before each one expires.

ItemHSNGST
Wet-blue buffalo hide (sorted) · sq ft41045%
Wet-blue goat skin · piece41065%
Crust cow and buffalo leather · sq ft41045%
Finished cow and buffalo upper leather · sq ft41075%
Finished goat leather (kid) · sq ft41135%
Finished sheep nappa (garment) · sq ft41125%
Split suede and lining leather · sq ft41075%
Job tanning raw to wet-blue · sq ft9988235%
Shavings and trimmings (chrome) · kg41155%
  • GST registrationGST department (GSTN)
  • Udyam (MSME) registrationMinistry of MSME (Udyam portal)
  • Pollution consent (CTO)State Pollution Control Board
  • Hazardous waste authorisationState Pollution Control Board (Hazardous Waste Rules 2016)
  • Factory licenceState factories department
  • Boiler registration and certificateState Boiler Inspectorate (Boilers Act 2025)If it applies
  • Fire NOCState fire and emergency services
  • PF registration (EPFO)EPFO (Employees' Provident Fund Organisation)
  • ESI registration (ESIC)ESIC (Employees' State Insurance Corporation)
  • Import Export Code (IEC)DGFT (Import Export Code)If it applies
  • Export council membership (RCMC)Export promotion council (via DGFT)If it applies
  • Contract labour licenceLabour department (Contract Labour Act, or Labour Codes)If it applies

Your people

The people who run it, each with their own login

Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.

OwnerBuys hides, sells leather, deals with the pollution board, CETP and courts, approves credit.
Tanning masterWrites recipe cards, runs drums stage by stage, checks pH and boil test.
Finishing in-chargeBuffing, spray and roller coats, plating, matches the buyer's swatch.
Sorter and measurerGrades wet-blue and finished leather, measures sq ft, makes measurement lists.
Drum and machine workerLoads drums, runs fleshing, splitting, shaving and staking machines.
ETP operatorRuns pretreatment, sends chrome liquor to recovery and effluent to the CETP, keeps the log.
AccountantBills, buyer dues, hide merchant and chemical payments, GST and export papers.
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Not covered yet

  • Sending messages, bills and reminders on WhatsApp from MatruOS is not live yet. Today they go by link, QR code or email, and from your own phone in one tap.
  • Live bank and UPI feeds are not connected yet. Upload a bank statement and MatruOS reads it into payments for you to confirm.

Questions people ask

How long does it take to set up MatruOS for a leather tannery?

Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Leather tannery". MatruOS picks this business type and sets up everything on this page in a few minutes. You then get a 7-day free trial, no card needed.

Do I have to type all of this in?

No. The routines, workflows, registers, items, licences and AI team on this page arrive already set up. You change what is different in your business, and bring your customers, items and balances from Zoho Books, Vyapar, Excel and others, with our team's help for Tally data.

Can I change the routines and workflows?

Yes. Every routine, workflow, register and SOP is yours to rename, retime, switch off or add to. MatruOS keeps the rest of the system in step with your changes.

What does the AI team do without asking me?

It runs routine checks and prepares drafts. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval. The one exception you can choose is payment reminders, which go out on their own once you have checked them and switched them on.

Run a leather tannery on one system Set up for your trade when you sign up.

Describe your business once. MatruOS sets up your apps, brings in your data and puts Muni and the AI team to work, with your approval on every step that matters. 7-day free trial, no card needed.

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