Your customers
- Hardware and building-material dealers
- Steel stockists
- Fencing contractors and farmers
- Nail, mesh and fastener makers
- Government and forest fencing tenders
Metals and engineering · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a wire and nails maker
Set up the way a wire and nails maker runs: margin per kg over wire rod on drawn wire, binding wire, GI wire, nails, barbed wire and fencing; some drawing job work for others. 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 wire and nails maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Drawing loss and zinc pick-up per tonne are guessed, not measured. Rate list lags wire rod and zinc moves, so margin goes.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 2 workflows, 3 registers and 9 licences for a wire and nails maker, 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.
- Induction furnace
- re-rolling mill (wire rod)
- wire drawer
- dealer
- contractor, farmer or nail user
Your suppliers
- Re-rolling mills and wire rod stockists
- Zinc ingot dealers
- Acid suppliers
- Carbide die makers
- Power utility
Credit and cash
Wire rod on advance or 7 days; zinc on advance; dealers 15-45 days; tenders 60-90 days
Rod paid before delivery; 10-20 days stock; 15-45 days dealer credit; zinc is the second largest buy
Your screens use your words
CustomerPartyItemGaugeInvoiceBillproductWire productBatchCoil
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a wire and nails maker
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Wire and nails maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a wire and nails makerRoutines, 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 wire and nails maker
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 drawing loss per rod lot and gauge, zinc pick-up per tonne of GI wire, gauge-wise stock, and spent acid per tonne; flags lots and shifts above norm
Works it out and shows you
Recomputes per-kg rates by gauge and product from this week's rod and zinc cost and drafts the dealer list
Asks you before sending
Ages dealer dues, drafts statements and reminders, flags dealers to hold
Asks you before sending
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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
8:00 amDaily gauge and product plan
- 1Pick gauges and products for the day from dealer orders and stock
- 2Issue rod coils by lot and weigh them
- 3Check dies for size with a micrometer before the run
11:00 amZinc bath readings and coating sample
- 1Bath temperature 445-460 °C
- 2Zinc added and ash removed this shift
- 3Coating mass sample by strip test
7:00 pmEnd of shift rod-in vs wire-out
- 1Weigh drawn coils, scale and end cuts per rod lot
- 2Enter in rod coil register; loss above 4% to be explained
Every week
MonSend dealer rate list
- 1Check this week's wire rod and zinc price
- 2Set rates per kg by gauge and product
- 3Send list to dealers on approval
SatDealer dues and dispatch holds
- 1List dealers past 30 days
- 2Send statements and call the biggest
Every month
10thSpent acid and zinc dross disposal record
- 1Total spent acid and dross sent this month with manifests
- 2Check stock of spent acid on site is within consent limit
Every year
JunRenew consent and file hazardous waste annual return
- 1File Form 4 annual return for hazardous waste by 30 June
- 2Renew consent to operate before expiry
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.
Dealer order to collection
- 1Order by gauge and kg
- 2Credit checkedNeeds approval
- 3Made or picked from stock
- 4Weighed and billed
- 5Delivered and paid
Spent acid dispatch to recycler
- 1Tanker booked with authorised recycler
- 2Weighed and manifest filled
- 3Receipt from recycler filed
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.
Rod coil and yield
Galvanising log
Acid and hazardous waste log
GI wire coating and gauge
Meet the coating the dealer and tender ask for
Acid pickling and waste handling
Keep the consent and keep workers safe
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Black annealed binding wire 18-20 SWG | 7217 | 18% |
| MS hard-drawn wire | 7217 | 18% |
| GI wire 8-14 SWG | 7217 | 18% |
| Barbed wire (GI) | 7313 | 18% |
| Chain link fencing | 7314 | 18% |
| Wire nails (polished) | 7317 | 18% |
| Roofing nails with washer | 7317 | 18% |
| Wire drawing job work | 9988 | 18% |
| End cuts and scale scrap | 7204 | 18% |
| Zinc ash and dross | 2620 | 18% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Factory licence
- Pollution consent (CTO)
- Hazardous waste authorisation
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
- BIS licence (ISI mark)If it applies
- GeM seller 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.
OwnerBooks wire rod and zinc, sets dealer rates, handles pollution board.
Mill supervisorPlans gauges, die changes, checks yield.
Drawing operatorRuns blocks, changes dies, coils wire.
Galvanising and furnace manRuns zinc bath and annealing pit, skims ash.
Nail machine operatorSets nail machines, polishes and packs nails.
AccountantBilling, dealer dues, GST TDS on scrap, hazardous waste returns.
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 wire and nails maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Wire and nails maker". 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.
Metals and engineering
Other makers and factories in metals and engineering
Run a wire and nails maker 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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