Your customers
- FMCG and food units
- Pharma plants
- Ceramics and tile plants
- Auto parts makers
- E-commerce and D2C sellers
- Exporters
- Fruit and vegetable packers
Printing, packaging and media · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a corrugated box maker
Set up the way a corrugated box maker runs: boxes sold per piece, priced from paper weight times kraft rate plus conversion cost per kg; printed and die-cut boxes, corrugated sheets and partitions; scrap sold to mills. 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 corrugated box maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Kraft rate changes several times a year while party rates are fixed for twelve months. Party money comes in 60-90 days while kraft is paid in advance.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 2 workflows, 4 registers and 9 licences for a corrugated box 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.
- kraft mill
- box maker
- brand owner or factory
- distributor
Your suppliers
- Kraft paper mills and their agents
- Paper merchants
- Starch and gum suppliers
- Stitching wire dealers
- Water-based ink makers
- Die makers
- Strapping suppliers
Credit and cash
Kraft bought against advance or 7-15 days; customers pay 30-90 days on annual rate contracts; large buyers may pay through TReDS discounting
Paper is paid fast and customers pay slow: 60-90 days of working capital sits in receivables and reel stock, funded by a cash credit limit; inverted-duty GST credit (18% in, 5% out) is claimed back every month or quarter
Your screens use your words
CustomerPartyOrderPOItemBoxInvoiceBillSupplierMillproductBox spec
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a corrugated box 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 "Corrugated box maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a corrugated box 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 corrugated box 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.
Orders jobs by delivery date and machine, checks paper for each by GSM, BF and deckle, and lists reels to issue
Works it out and shows you
Works out paper issued against theoretical weight of good boxes for each closed job and flags jobs with over 8% loss
Works it out and shows you
Recalculates cost per box for every contract spec when kraft moves and drafts escalation letters with workings for the owner to sign
Asks you before sending and signing
Ages receivables by party, drafts statements and reminders, and lists invoices that can go on TReDS
Asks you before sending
Prepares the inverted-duty refund working (net ITC on goods inputs against output tax) and the statement for the refund application
Asks you before 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 day
8:30 amMorning job plan by delivery date
- 1List jobs due today and tomorrow and the machines they need
- 2Check paper for each job is in stock by GSM, BF and deckle
- 3Issue reels against job cards and note weight issued
12:00 pmTest samples from each job
- 1Bursting strength against the spec
- 2Board moisture
- 3Size and print checked against approved sample
5:30 pmEvening dispatch and billing
- 1Count bundles against challan quantity
- 2Make bill and e-way bill for each vehicle
- 3Close job card with paper issued and good boxes made
Every week
MonWeekly kraft rate check and buying
- 1Collect this week's mill rates by BF
- 2Compare with reel stock and order book; place orders
- 3If rate moved more than 5% since the contract base, start escalation
SatWeekly wage sheet for helpers
- 1Total attendance and piece counts for stitching and pasting
- 2Pay by bank or UPI and keep the wage register
Every month
3rdStatements and collections round
- 1Send statement of account to every party
- 2List bills past due date and call
- 3Upload eligible invoices of large buyers on TReDS
20thInverted-duty GST refund working
- 1Total credit on kraft and other goods inputs against output tax at 5%
- 2Work out the refundable amount by the formula and prepare the claim
Every year
MarAnnual rate contract renewal and licences
- 1Renew rate contracts with an escalation clause tied to kraft rate
- 2Renew factory licence and fire NOC if due
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.
PO to payment
- 1Spec costed and quotedNeeds approval
- 2PO received and job card opened
- 3Paper issued and corrugated
- 4Printed and converted
- 5Tested and passed
- 6Dispatched with bill
- 7Payment received
Kraft price escalation claim
- 1Mill rate change noted
- 2Cost per box recalculated for each spec
- 3Escalation letter signedNeeds approval
- 4Party agrees revised rate
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.
Job card
Paper reel stock
Box test report
Party rate contract
Box quality release
Ship boxes that hold the customer's goods
Box costing from spec
Never quote below cost
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 3 ply corrugated box (RSC, plain) | 4819 | 18% |
| 5 ply corrugated box (RSC, plain) | 4819 | 18% |
| 7 ply heavy-duty export box | 4819 | 18% |
| Printed 3 ply box (2 colour flexo) | 4819 | 18% |
| Die-cut e-commerce mailer box | 4819 | 18% |
| Corrugated partitions and pads | 4819 | 18% |
| Corrugated sheets and rolls (2 ply) | 4808 | 18% |
| Box price per kg (quoted basis) | 4819 | 18% |
| Trim and reject scrap | 4707 | 5% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Factory licence
- Fire NOC
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
- Pollution consent (CTO)If it applies
- Boiler registration and certificateIf it applies
- BIS licence (ISI mark)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.
OwnerQuotes and rate contracts, buys kraft, signs escalation letters, approves credit.
Production supervisorMakes the daily job plan, issues paper, runs the line, signs job cards.
Corrugator operatorRuns the single facer and pasting, sets flute and glue.
Printer-slotter operatorPrints, slots, creases and die-cuts.
HelpersStitching, gluing, bundling, loading.
QC in-chargeTests bursting strength, compression and moisture on samples.
AccountantChallans, bills, e-way bills, collections, GST and refund claims.
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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 corrugated box maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Corrugated box 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.
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