Feature
Inventory Control Built for Chemical Batch Factories
Books and reality in the same place. No more month-end hunts for the ₹15 lakh discrepancy.
Faktry's inventory control auto-decrements raw materials by actual batch consumption — not theoretical recipe values — so stock always matches what's on the shop floor. It handles low-stock alerts, order-pipeline-based forecasting, finished-goods tracking, and batch-lot lineage for GPCB and customer audits. Included in the ₹8,999/month core plan.
People also ask
- Our stock count and books never agree. Will this fix it?
- Yes, and that's usually the first visible win. The gap comes from entries drifting between paper registers, WhatsApp messages, and Excel. Once consumption is captured when and where it happens, the discrepancy collapses — most customers see it within the first month.
- What about raw material waste and scrap?
- You can log it when it happens. Faktry treats it as an explicit adjustment, not a mystery write-off, so you see where material is actually going and can decide what to do about it.
- Do we still need to do physical stock counts?
- Yes, but they go from painful all-day exercises to quick reconciliations. The system tells you what the expected count is for every item; you just verify. Variances are flagged, investigated, and logged — not absorbed silently.
How it works
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Stock updates itself as batches run
When a batch is completed, raw material consumption flows out of inventory automatically based on what was actually used — not what the recipe said. Finished goods move in at the same time. No end-of-day entries, no register-to-Excel re-keying.
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Low-stock alerts before you're out
When a raw material drops below the threshold you care about, Faktry flags it. No more 'we just ran out of H-acid' surprises in the middle of a coupling.
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Forecast by order pipeline, not by gut feel
The system knows what orders are active and what recipes they need. Supervisors see upcoming raw material demand against current stock — procurement gets a clear list instead of a rough estimate.
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Finished goods match dispatch, always
Every batch that passes QC moves into finished goods in real time. Dispatch sees exactly what's available. Invoice, lot code, batch lineage — all already linked.
Why stock counts don’t match the books
Every Gujarat chemical MSME we’ve worked with has some version of the same story: a month-end inventory count that’s off by ₹10–25 lakh from what the books say. It’s not theft — it’s drift. Small quantities of raw material that were used but never logged, finished goods that went out without a dispatch entry, returns that never made it into the system, scrap that was absorbed into “variance.”
The fix isn’t discipline. Discipline requires someone to re-enter data from the floor to Excel every evening, and that step is exactly where the drift happens.
What changes
Consumption is captured at the source. When an operator records the actuals for a completed batch, raw material inventory updates at that moment — not at 8 PM when the supervisor gets to Excel.
Three effects show up quickly:
- The month-end discrepancy shrinks. Most customers see it drop by 80%+ in the first cycle, and by month three it’s usually a rounding error.
- Procurement stops getting surprised. “We need 500 kg of VS urgently” becomes “VS is trending low, let’s place the order next week.”
- Finished-goods dispatch is cleaner. Sales knows exactly what’s ready to ship. Invoices go out without hand-reconciliation against the godown.
Forecasting that reflects your order book
The forecast isn’t magic — it’s arithmetic. Faktry knows the raw materials each active order will consume (from your recipes) and compares that against current stock. The supervisor sees a clear “you’ll run out of H-acid around Thursday” signal instead of a rough mental model.
For a typical dye or pigment unit running 10–20 active orders, this removes most of the firefighting from procurement.
How does Faktry inventory management fit dye, pigment, and specialty chemical manufacturers?
Inventory for chemical batch manufacturing is chemistry-specific. Faktry’s inventory module adapts to each:
For dye manufacturers
H-acid, vinyl sulphone, caustic, sulphate, sodium nitrite, and auxiliary chemicals decrement by actual batch consumption — not theoretical recipe amounts. Per-batch landed cost of each raw material stays visible, so a ₹720/kg H-acid spike shows up in real time instead of at month-end. Lot-level traceability for every raw material means GPCB audits and textile-buyer complaint lookups answer in seconds.
For pigment manufacturers
Phthalic anhydride, urea, copper chloride, and solvents (xylene, toluene, MEK) all decrement by actual consumption; recovered solvent output is logged as structured data for VOC and CETP compliance. Particle size consistency depends on consistent raw material lot quality — Faktry links every finished pigment batch to the specific drum numbers that fed it.
For specialty chemical manufacturers
Intermediates, catalysts, solvents, and auxiliary chemicals all tracked at lot level. Cost volatility across campaigns stays visible because per-batch landed cost is computed automatically from actual consumption. Custom-synthesis contract buyers get the lot-traceability they expect without a supervisor having to reconstruct it from registers.
Try it with your own stock
The 30-day free pilot sets up your product master, recipes, and current inventory balance during onboarding. From that point on, the system stays matched to reality because your team is working in it daily. Book a demo and we’ll import a slice of your inventory so you can see what it feels like on your own numbers.