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MatruOS for a potato chips and wafers unit

Set up the way a potato chips and wafers unit runs: margin on chips over potato, oil and packing; loose wafers at own counter; ₹5 and ₹10 packs through distributors; farali and banana wafers in fasts. Routines, workflows, registers, licences and an AI team that knows the work are ready when you sign up.

Food and groceryReady when you sign up

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

7-day free trial, no card needed.

What this solves

What a potato chips and wafers unit deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it

01Today

Recovery falls and chips go dark from high-sugar lots, found only after frying. Cold-store receipts, withdrawals and reconditioning tracked on paper.

02In MatruOS

MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 2 workflows, 3 registers and 9 licences for a potato chips and wafers unit, 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. farmer
  2. cold store
  3. chips unit
  4. distributor or shop
  5. consumer

Your customers

  • Farsan and sweet shops
  • Kirana through distributors
  • Own retail counter
  • Caterers
  • Canteens

Your suppliers

  • Cold storages and potato traders
  • Contract farmers (medium)
  • Oil brokers
  • Seasoning makers
  • Pouch film printers

Credit and cash

Potato paid at withdrawal or 7 days; cold-store rent per season; oil 7-15 days; distributors pay 7-30 days; shops weekly

The season's potato is booked or bought in Feb-Mar and paid as withdrawn. Rent is paid by the season. Sales cash comes weekly from shops and in 2-4 weeks from distributors.

Your screens use your words

  • CustomerParty
  • ItemWafers
  • InvoiceBill
  • BatchLot
  • SupplierCold store

How it works

How MatruOS is set up for a potato chips and wafers unit

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 "Potato chips and wafers unit", typed when you sign up.
  2. Recognised as a potato chips and wafers unitRoutines, 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 potato chips and wafers unit

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.

Store keeper

Plans which cold-store lots to withdraw each week so each has 10-14 days of reconditioning before use, and warns as the store's stock and season end near

Reads potato lots, fry log and orders

Works it out and shows you

Operations head

Works out recovery and oil per kg for each lot, variety and cold store, and flags lots below 23%

Reads potato lots and fry log

Works it out and shows you

Accountant

Works out cost per kg and per ₹5 and ₹10 pack from this week's potato, oil and gas prices and recovery; proposes grammage or rate changes

Reads fry log and purchase bills

Asks you before sending

Accountant

Ages dues and checks crushed-pack claims against dispatched quantities; drafts credit notes and reminders

Reads party accounts and dispatches

Asks you before sending and signing

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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 day3

  • 7:00 amWithdraw and recondition potato lotsOwner · 3 steps
    1. 1Pick the next lot by receipt and reconditioning days completed
    2. 2Fry-colour test on 10 slices before the lot goes to the line
    3. 3Move new withdrawals into reconditioning at 15-18°C
  • 8:00 amSlice and fry (line run)Line supervisor · 4 steps
    1. 1Slice thickness 1.2-1.5 mm, checked every hour
    2. 2Wash slices of starch and dewater before frying
    3. 3Oil at the set point (about 170-180°C)
    4. 4Log potato kg in, chips kg out and oil added
  • 11:00 amPack and open the counterCounter and packing staff · 2 steps
    1. 1Weigh and seal packs; check nitrogen and seal
    2. 2Fill counter trays with today's fry only

Every week1

  • MonWeekly oil buying and cost per kgOwner · 2 steps
    1. 1Check oil stock and buy at the week's rate
    2. 2Work out cost per kg chips from recovery, oil and gas

Every month1

  • 5thMonthly distributor dues and crushed-pack claimsOwner · 3 steps
    1. 1List dues by distributor and shop
    2. 2Check crushed or expired pack claims against dispatches
    3. 3Issue credit notes and reminders

Every year1

  • AprYearly licence and lab testOwner · 2 steps
    1. 1Renew FSSAI and Legal Metrology registrations
    2. 2Lab test chips for moisture and acid value of fat

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.

Cold-store lot to packed chips

  1. 1Withdrawn from cold storeOwner
  2. 2Reconditioned 10-14 daysLine supervisor
  3. 3Fry-colour test passedLine supervisorNeeds approval
  4. 4Fried and packedLine workers
  5. 5Recovery checkedOwner

Distributor order to payment

  1. 1OrderOwner
  2. 2Dispatched with billCounter and packing staff
  3. 3Claims for crushed packs checkedOwnerNeeds approval
  4. 4PaidOwner

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.

  • Potato lots

    Cold store receipt number · Cold store · Variety · Bags · Withdrawn on · Reconditioning days · Fry colour test · Potato kg used

  • Fry log

    Date · Fryer · Slice thickness mm · Oil temperature °C · Oil added kg · Chips kg · TPC reading %

  • Party accounts

    Party · Type · Date · Amount · Crushed or returned packs · Received

  • Potato fitness for chips

    Light, crisp chips with good recovery

    4 steps with checks

  • Frying and finished chips

    Low-oil, low-moisture chips and safe oil

    4 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
Salted potato wafers (loose) · kg200520005%
Masala potato wafers (loose) · kg200520005%
Pepper or mint wafers (loose) · kg200520005%
Wafers ₹10 pack (to distributor) · pack200520005%
Wafers ₹5 pack (to distributor) · pack200520005%
Potato sali (lachha) · kg200520005%
Banana wafers · kg200899995%
Farali chevdo (fasting mix) · kg210690995%
Used cooking oil to RUCO aggregator · litre15185%
  • FSSAI food licenceFSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India)
  • Udyam (MSME) registrationMinistry of MSME (Udyam portal)
  • GST registrationGST department (GSTN)
  • Weighing scale stampingLegal Metrology department
  • Factory licenceState factories departmentIf it applies
  • Fire NOCState fire and emergency servicesIf it applies
  • EPR registration for plastic packagingCPCB (Extended Producer Responsibility portal)If it applies
  • PF registration (EPFO)EPFO (Employees' Provident Fund Organisation)If it applies
  • ESI registration (ESIC)ESIC (Employees' State Insurance Corporation)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.

OwnerCold-store contracts and withdrawals, oil buying, prices, distributors and shops.
Line supervisorPeeling, slice thickness, fryer temperature, seasoning, fry colour.
Line workersWash, peel trim, slice, fry, season, pack.
Counter and packing staffLoose sales, pack weighing, sealing.

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 potato chips and wafers unit?

Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Potato chips and wafers unit". 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 potato chips and wafers unit 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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