From paper gate slips to a
gate-to-invoice ERP.
Digiwah moved Unati, a 195-person food cooperative in the Punjab foothills, onto one cloud ERP: gate, weighbridge, QC, manufacturing and finance on a single system, reaching all the way to the shop floor, and delivered inside a sub-₹5L budget.
Unati
The Unati Co-op. Marketing-cum-Processing Society is a farmer-and-community-owned cooperative in Punjab's Kandi belt, in the lower Shivalik foothills. It processes natural products: nutraceuticals, jaggery, fruit & vegetable preserves, and a dedicated vinegar line.
“Connecting Communities. Crafting Wellness. Cultivating Cooperation.”
Unati makes its own labels and privately processes for 100+ partner brands, all under FSSAI, GST and MSME regulation across two manufacturing units.
A regulated plant, running on paper
Unati ran on Marg ERP for accounts, Zenscale for payroll, and a great deal of paper and spreadsheets at the gate, the store and the QC bench. The mandate: consolidate onto one modern cloud ERP without disrupting a regulated food workflow, and stay inside a hard budget.
One ERP for the spine.
Keep what already works.
Zoho ERP Premium became the system of record for finance, inventory, purchase and sales. Native Manufacturing and Quality ran the floor. Zoho Creator put apps in the hands of gate and store staff. And Zenscale stayed for payroll, integrated rather than ripped out, saving about ₹1.4L a year. Simplicity first: the simplest version that works, with complexity added only where the floor demanded it.
From the gate to the invoice
Follow a sack of raw material from the factory gate to a finished, batch-traced, invoiced product. This is the path it now takes, in production.
Production used to live in five places.
Now it runs as one.
For the people on the line: BOMs, material planning, work orders, work-center costing and quality, all connected. Every batch traceable from recipe to finished goods, with no paper recipe and no guesswork in a spreadsheet.
Ten phases, one integrated system
- Full Chart of Accounts: 18 banks, 84+ expense heads, opening balances
- GST for both unit GSTINs, 6-digit HSN enforced
- GST e-invoice template live (IRN/ACK), in daily use
- Value-tiered PO approval matrix (4 rules)
- Two-level bill approvals, payment blocked till cleared
- Bin-level, location-aware inventory across 2 units
- 318 inspection templates, 250+ rules, auto-inspection
- Quarantine-gated stock release via Transfer Order
- Sampling SOP standardized (1% floor)
- 11 Work Centers, structured BOMs & Manufacturing Orders
- Auto-backflush consumption, verified live
- Batch genealogy RM → FG → customer, with CoA
- Gate Entry, Weighbridge, Physical Verification (Creator)
- Photo evidence with write-back to ERP
- Push notifications to the right store operator
- Restricted Creator portal for gate & store staff
- Zenscale payroll bridge (leave sync + journals)
- OAuth Connections + scheduled REST backups
A migration measured in thousands
The architecture
Four integrated layers, stitched so a sack at the gate flows cleanly to a batch-traced, invoiced product.
Bulk data engineering at scale
Items, contacts, QC rules, bin mappings and brand-by-brand FG configuration driven through Zoho's REST APIs with paced, idempotent, stock-safe scripts.
Quality automation
The qualityspecifications API was used to clone, load and activate hundreds of inspection rules: boolean pass/fail and numeric Min/Max thresholds, item by item.
Deluge + OAuth Connections
The key insight that ERP custom functions need a named Connection to write back. Establishing it resolved a whole class of silent-write failures.
Creator ↔ ERP write-back
Push notifications to portal users via zoho.pushNotification, auto-record creation, and status round-tripping between the floor apps and the ERP.
What changed
Running a regulated operation on legacy software and paper?
We design the operation, build the system, and stay till your team owns it. From the gate to the invoice, let's map your plant onto one platform the floor will actually use.