Tracking job work without losing lots

Job work is the part of the business that lives outside your own four walls. Cloth goes out to a karigar, something happens to it, and some of it comes back. In between, the only record is usually a line in a diary and a photograph on WhatsApp.

That works for five lots. At fifty, nobody can answer the two questions that matter — what is outstanding with whom, and how much of it came back — without making phone calls.

Lots rarely disappear. They become unaccountable, which costs the same:

• Cloth issued but never recorded, because the karigar came at closing time.
• Part-returns entered as full returns, so the balance quietly reads zero.
• Wastage argued about months later, with no agreed figure from the day it happened.
• Two lots with the same party mixed together, so neither can be closed.
• Rework sent back out with no record that it went out twice.

A lot is trackable when four things are recorded at the moment they happen, not at month end:

1. What went out — quantity, quality, and to which karigar, on the day it left.
2. What the job is — the process, the agreed rate, and the expected return date.
3. What came back and when, including part-returns as part-returns.
4. What was lost or rejected, agreed and recorded on the day, not argued later.

Once those four exist, the outstanding balance for every karigar is arithmetic, and nobody has to remember anything.

Most disputes with karigars are not about honesty. They are about two people holding different numbers because each wrote them down separately.

When both sides are paid from the same recorded returns, the argument stops being about what happened and becomes about the rate — which is a negotiation, not a fight.

• Payment calculated from recorded returns, not from a remembered total.
• Advances and deductions sitting against the same karigar as the work.
• A statement you can send when it is asked for, rather than reconstruct.

Job work is a module, not a separate app. Issuing a lot reduces your stock, receiving it back adds the finished goods, and the karigar's outstanding updates on its own — because it is the same set of records the rest of the business runs on.

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Bring one week of real lots to a demo — including the messy ones with part-returns. Twenty minutes on your own figures tells you more than any feature list.

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