Your customers
- Pharma formulation plants
- PCD and third-party pharma makers
- FMCG brands
- Food and sweets brands
- Cosmetics makers
- Agarbatti and consumer goods makers
Printing, packaging and media · Makers and factories
MatruOS for a mono carton maker
Set up the way a mono carton maker runs: printed folding cartons sold per 1,000, priced from board weight plus plates, printing, coating, die and pasting; die and plate charges billed separately on new jobs. 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 mono carton maker deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
One wrong word on a pharma carton means reprint and sometimes a recall. Sheet wastage in make-ready and punching is not tracked by job.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 8 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 7 licences for a mono carton 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.
- board mill
- board merchant
- mono carton maker
- pharma or FMCG plant
Your suppliers
- Duplex and SBS board merchants
- Ink dealers
- CTP plate bureaus
- Die makers
- Lamination and foil suppliers
- Adhesive suppliers
Credit and cash
Board bought on 15-30 days; customers pay 30-90 days; small PCD companies often slower; advance on first jobs
Board and plates are bought for each job before the customer pays; working capital of 60-90 days; inverted-duty GST credit refund monthly
Your screens use your words
CustomerPartyOrderJobItemCartonInvoiceBillSupplierBoard merchantproductCarton design
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a mono carton 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 "Mono carton maker", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a mono carton 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 mono carton 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.
Compares new artwork text with the last approved version, lists every change, and drafts the proof message to the party
Asks you before sending
Works out sheets issued against cartons packed for each job and flags jobs over the wastage allowance
Works it out and shows you
Ages dues by party, drafts statements and reminders, and lists parties to hold
Asks you before sending
Collects approvals, line clearance and complaint records into an audit pack and lists missing items
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
9:30 amProof check and approval follow-up
- 1Compare new artwork text with the last approved version word by word
- 2Send proof with change list and chase pending approvals
- 3Release to plates only with a signed approval
10:30 amFirst sheet approval on press
- 1Colour against shade card
- 2Text and barcode against approved proof
- 3Sign the first sheet and keep it with the job card
6:00 pmClose jobs with sheet yield
- 1Note sheets issued, sheets printed good and cartons packed
- 2Wastage against allowance
Every week
TueWeekly board buying against jobs
- 1List next week's jobs by board type and GSM
- 2Order board from merchants; check rates
Every month
5thMonthly dues and statements
- 1Age bills by party and send statements
- 2Hold new jobs for parties over the limit after owner decision
Every year
AprAnnual die and plate store clean-up
- 1Scrap dies of discontinued products after party confirmation
- 2Destroy obsolete printed stock with a record
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.
Artwork to delivered carton
- 1Quote approvedNeeds approval
- 2Proof signed by party
- 3Plates and die ready
- 4Printed with first sheet signed
- 5Punched and pasted
- 6QC passed and packed
- 7Billed and dispatched
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.
Artwork and proof approval
Carton job card
Die register
Artwork version control
Never print an unapproved or old artwork
Line clearance and mix-up prevention
Keep cartons of one product out of another product's pack
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Printed duplex mono carton (small, 4 colour) | 4819 | 18% |
| Printed duplex mono carton (medium, 4 colour + varnish) | 4819 | 18% |
| SBS carton with UV and foil (cosmetic) | 4819 | 18% |
| Pharma tablet carton (strip carton) | 4819 | 18% |
| Food carton (sweets or bakery box) | 4819 | 18% |
| Window carton with PET patch | 4819 | 18% |
| Cutting die (development charge) | 8441 | 18% |
| Plate and positive charges | 8442 | 18% |
| Board trim and waste | 4707 | 5% |
- GST registration
- Udyam (MSME) registration
- Factory licence
- Fire NOC
- PF registration (EPFO)
- ESI registration (ESIC)
- Pollution consent (CTO)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, handles pharma and FMCG buyers, buys board, approves credit.
Pre-press operatorArtwork check, proof, die-line, imposition, plate order.
Press operatorMake-ready, colour matching to shade card, print run.
Punching and pasting supervisorDie-punch, stripping, window patching, folder-gluer.
QC in-chargeChecks first sheet and samples against approved proof, keeps line clearance.
AccountantBills, collections, GST refund.
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 mono carton maker?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Mono carton 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.
Printing, packaging and media
Other makers and factories in printing, packaging and media
Run a mono carton 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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