How it works
A normal day, start to finish
Nothing here asks the factory to work differently in the first phase. Bala records how the factory works, rather than instructing it.
06:00
The plan
Last night's orders are already drafted into jobs and picks, with the ingredients reserved and the batch sizes worked out. Nothing has reached the floor. Your manager accepts or denies each one, seeing what it is for, who asked, what it consumes and what it leaves over.
Through the day
The floor
Each released job becomes a numbered pick. The store room issues from a named place, weighs out, and stages the result for whoever is collecting it. The system keeps reminding them until they do, then escalates.
At the bench
The method
The maker sees the sequence at the quantity actually being made: add the milk, warm it, add the gelatine, mix. Each step is marked as it is done, and Bala asks how much actually went in. Outside tolerance, it says so while the batch can still be fixed.
Coming back
What is owed
Two litres went out, five hundred millilitres is expected back. The store room knows it is owed that, and when it arrives it goes on a scale. What is received is what the scale says, and the difference is recorded.
Daily
Counting
Assigned people count assigned items, and they are not shown what the system expects. Anything outside tolerance goes to the manager with a reason required before it posts.
Any time
The trail
There were fifty, where did they go. Read down a column: every movement, in order, with a running balance, a place, a job and a name. And what the system said at six on Tuesday, when you promised that customer.
What it does
Six things, done properly
Stock that reconciles
Every movement recorded against a place and a person. Daily counts entered without the counter seeing what the system expects.
Orders that answer honestly
A multi-line order gets one verdict: what is short, how much to buy, in the units you buy it in, and the date it would be ready.
Work that organises itself
Accepted orders become drafted jobs and picks with the measurements already calculated. Nothing reaches the floor until your manager releases it.
A method, not a recipe card
The maker sees the sequence at the quantity being made, marks each step, and records what actually went in the pot.
Nothing stands around
Weighed ingredients are staged to a named destination, and whoever must collect them is reminded until they do.
A record nobody can edit
Not an operator, not a manager, not an administrator, not us. A correction is a new entry and both stay visible for ever.
What does not change
Your paper records stay exactly where they are.
If your rating depends on signed hard copy on letterhead, Bala does not replace it. It scans it, holds as many pages per record as it needs, and links each one to the job, the batch and the recipe version. The paper stays the authority. Bala becomes the index.
Start with two weeks
A short conversation, then two weeks on your floor. At the end you have a fixed price and your factory's knowledge written down, and you owe nothing further.