Your customers
- National brand principals (CP)
- Super stockists and distributors (own brand)
- Institutional buyers (mid-day meal, canteens)
- Export
Food and grocery · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a biscuit factory or contract packer
Set up the way a biscuit factory or contract packer runs: conversion charge per kg or carton from a principal (contract packing), or margin on own-brand biscuits through distributors. Routines, workflows, registers, licences and an AI team that knows the work are ready when you sign up.
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What this solves
What a biscuit factory or contract packer deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Principal material reconciliation deductions eat the conversion margin. Daily material over-use is found only at month-end.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 10 routines, 2 workflows, 3 registers and 14 licences for a biscuit factory or contract packer, with an AI team that reads your own records and prepares the work.
What 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.
- mills and refiners
- biscuit plant (own or for principal)
- principal depot or distributor
- retailer
Your suppliers
- Principal (CP materials)
- Flour mills
- Sugar mills and traders
- Fat refiners
- Invert syrup and milk solids suppliers
- Laminate printers
- Carton makers
- LPG or PNG
Credit and cash
Principal pays conversion in 30-45 days after deductions; own-brand materials on 15-30 days; distributors pay 7-30 days
CPs carry wages and fuel for 1-2 months until conversion is paid, net of reconciliation deductions. Own-brand units carry material and distributor credit.
Your screens use your words
CustomerPrincipal or distributorOrderProduction orderItemSKUInvoiceConversion billBatchShift
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a biscuit factory or contract packer
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Biscuit factory or contract packer", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a biscuit factory or contract packerRoutines, workflows, registers, items, licences and the AI team for this trade are set up for you.
- 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.
- 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 biscuit factory or contract packer
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.
Works out OEE, breakage and packing waste by line and shift and ranks stoppage reasons for the week
Works it out and shows you
Computes the daily material balance against standard per material and flags variances above 0.5% the same day
Works it out and shows you
Prepares the month's reconciliation statement and conversion bill and lists the principal's deductions that the plant's data does not support
Asks you before sending
Reminds of PF and ESI due dates and flags contractors whose challans or wage proofs are missing
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 day
6:00 amShift start and line checks
- 1Oven zone temperatures at set point before first dough
- 2Moulder roll and cutter clean; metal detector test pieces pass
- 3Material issued by batch sheet
7:00 amHourly QC (weight, moisture, breakage, seal)
- 1Stack height and pack weight sample
- 2Biscuit moisture 2-4%
- 3Seal and print check on 10 packs
2:00 pmShift report and stoppages
- 1Enter good output, breakage, packing waste and stoppage minutes with reasons
- 2Hand over to the next shift
4:00 pmDaily material balance
- 1Compare materials used with standard for output made
- 2Investigate any variance above 0.5%
Every week
SunWeekly preventive maintenance
- 1Oven band and burner check; moulder and packing machine servicing
- 2Deep clean and pest control round
Every month
3rdMonthly conversion bill and reconciliation (CP)
- 1Agree output and material balance with the principal's QA and accounts
- 2Raise the conversion bill; contest unfair deductions with data
15thMonthly PF, ESI and contract labour check
- 1File PF and ESI challans by the 15th
- 2Check each contractor paid wages and deposited PF and ESI
Every year
JanYearly licences, audits and returns
- 1Factory licence renewal and annual return; FSSAI annual return by 31 May
- 2Pollution consent, fire NOC and boiler if any
- 3Principal and third-party food safety audits; plastic EPR return
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.
Contract packing month (material in to conversion paid)
- 1Materials received from principal
- 2Produced and released by QANeeds approval
- 3Dispatched to principal depot
- 4Reconciliation agreed
- 5Conversion bill raised
- 6Paid net of deductions
Line stoppage to restart
- 1Stoppage logged
- 2Maintenance fixes
- 3QC clears restartNeeds approval
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.
Shift reports
Material reconciliation
Contract labour register
Line QC and release
Every carton meets weight, moisture and seal specs
Material reconciliation
No deduction from the principal that the plant cannot answer
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.
| Item | HSN | GST |
|---|---|---|
| Glucose biscuits (own brand) | 19053100 | 5% |
| Marie biscuits | 19053100 | 5% |
| Cream sandwich biscuits | 19053100 | 5% |
| Salted crackers | 19059090 | 5% |
| Butter or nankhatai cookies | 19053100 | 5% |
| ₹5 biscuit pack (to distributor) | 19053100 | 5% |
| ₹10 biscuit pack (to distributor) | 19053100 | 5% |
| Contract packing conversion charge | 998819 | 5% |
| Broken biscuit (to feed or crumbs) | 19053100 | 5% |
- FSSAI food licence
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- GST registration
- Weighing scale stamping
- Factory licence
- Fire NOC
- Pollution consent (CTO)
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
- Contract labour licenceIf it applies
- Boiler registration and certificateIf it applies
- EPR registration for plastic packagingIf it applies
- TrademarkIf it applies
- Professional tax registrationIf 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.
OwnerPrincipal contracts or brand, prices, bank, labour contractors.
Plant managerShift plans, line efficiency, maintenance, material balance.
Shift supervisorsRun mixing, moulding, oven and packing; shift report.
QC officerHourly weight, moisture, breakage, seal; release; principal QA liaison.
Stores officerMaterial receipt and issue, laminate and carton stock, FG dispatch.
HR and compliance officerAttendance, contract labour, PF, ESI, factory registers.
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 biscuit factory or contract packer?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Biscuit factory or contract packer". 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.
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