Bill of materials
Multi-level BOM with sub-assemblies, alternates and wastage allowances.
Manufacturing · Beyond textile
Manufacturing ERP for factories of every kind, not just textile
Linksoft is known for textile because that is where we started in 1998. The engine underneath — materials in, stages tracked, costs attached, goods out — is not textile-specific, and we build it for food, plastics, engineering, chemicals, packaging, pharmaceuticals and assembly operations alike.
Every factory has the same four questions
Whatever you make, the operational questions are identical. What material do we have and what is committed? Where is each order right now? What did this batch actually cost to produce? And do the books agree with the floor?
A manufacturing ERP exists to answer those four continuously rather than at month-end. The industry-specific part is only the vocabulary of the stages — dye batch or extrusion run, loom or oven, greige or blank. The machinery is common, which is why a system built properly for one process configures to another rather than needing to be rewritten.
Bill of materials and production orders
The bill of materials defines what a finished item consumes, including multi-level assemblies where a sub-assembly is itself manufactured. A production order draws against it: material issued, stages completed, output and by-products recorded, wastage and rejection captured with reasons rather than silently absorbed into variance.
Work-in-progress becomes visible at each stage, which is usually the single largest blind spot in a factory running on registers — the difference between what has been issued to production and what has emerged from it.
- 01 Multi-level bill of materials with sub-assemblies
- 02 Production orders drawing material against the BOM
- 03 Stage-wise work-in-progress visibility
- 04 Wastage, rejection and rework recorded with reasons
- 05 By-products and co-products handled where the process creates them
Job costing that survives an argument
Costing is where manufacturing software earns its price. Material at actual issued cost, labour attached to the order, and overhead applied on a basis you and your accountant agree — producing a per-batch and per-unit cost you can defend, compare against the quoted price, and use to decide whether a product line is worth running.
Because costing draws from the same records as production and the same ledger as accounting, the number does not change depending on who prepares it.
Quality, maintenance and compliance
Quality checkpoints are recorded at the stages where you inspect, with results held against the batch — which matters when a customer complaint arrives six months later and traceability decides how much product you have to recall. Machine maintenance is scheduled and its history retained. For regulated products, batch and lot traceability from raw material to dispatch is built in rather than added afterwards.
What the system includes
Modules are configured to your operation during scoping — you take what your business runs on and leave what it does not.
Production orders
Material issue, stage progress, output, by-products and rework against each order.
Work-in-progress
What has been issued versus what has emerged, visible per stage.
Job costing
Material, labour and overhead producing defensible per-batch and per-unit costs.
Quality control
Checkpoints and results held against the batch, with full traceability.
Machine maintenance
Scheduled maintenance, downtime and history per machine.
Inventory & purchasing
Raw material, consumables and finished goods with reorder control.
Accounting & FBR invoicing
Double-entry books posted from production and sales, with compliant e-invoicing.
Where the proven parts come from — stated plainly
This is the one industry page where the proof is direct rather than transferred. The Textile Management Expert System has tracked orders through multi-stage production — material receipt, weaving, dyeing, processing, packaging, delivery — with quality control at the stages and integrated double-entry accounting, in production at named Karachi mills, dyeing units and towel exporters since 1998.
Textile is one of the more difficult manufacturing processes to model: multi-stage, batch-based, with by-products, rework and buyer-specific packing. A factory with a simpler process is a smaller problem, not a different one. The configuration work is real and we scope it on-site — but the engine has been running for twenty-eight years.
See the client register →Asked and answered
Do you only build manufacturing software for textile factories?
No. Textile is where the company started and where our named clients are, but the engine — bill of materials, production orders, work-in-progress, job costing, integrated accounting — is not textile-specific. We configure it to food, plastics, engineering, chemicals, packaging and assembly operations.
Can it handle multi-level bills of materials?
Yes, including sub-assemblies that are themselves manufactured, alternate materials, and wastage allowances defined per item.
Will it tell us what a batch actually cost?
Yes — material at actual issued cost, labour attached to the order, and overhead applied on a basis agreed with your accountant, giving per-batch and per-unit costs drawn from the same records as production and accounts.
Does it support batch traceability for regulated products?
Yes. Batch and lot identity is carried from raw material receipt through production to dispatch, with quality results held against the batch — which is what makes a recall or a customer complaint answerable.
Our factory is small. Is an ERP worth it?
Sometimes the honest answer is to start with one module where the pain is sharpest — usually inventory or costing — and grow from there. Because everything writes to one database, each addition inherits clean data rather than creating another silo.
Can it connect the floor to the accounts?
Yes, and that integration is the point. Material movements, production output and sales become double-entry accounting entries automatically, so costing and planning run on live numbers rather than last week's registers.
Tell us how your operation actually runs.
We scope on-site, specify in writing, and tell you honestly whether custom software is the right answer — before any commitment.