SteelCraft Industries Saved ₹8 Lakhs/Month by Switching from Manual Processes to ERPDrive

SteelCraft Industries is one of the larger stamping and sheet metal parts manufacturers in the Delhi NCR region. With 200 employees, multiple stamping presses, laser cutting machines, and a dedicated tool room, the company produces a wide range of stamped brackets, pressed components, sheet metal enclosures, and welded sub-assemblies for automobile OEMs.

Despite the scale and complexity of their operations, the entire factory ran on paper-based processes. Production tracking was done in registers. Quality inspection records were maintained in physical logbooks. Material consumption was estimated rather than measured. The management team knew they were losing money, but they could not quantify exactly where or how much.

• Paper-based production tracking: Every production order, job card, and material issue was written by hand. Shop floor supervisors spent the first hour of every morning compiling the previous day's production data from paper registers into Excel for the management review meeting.
• Quality records in physical registers: Inspection results, dimensional checks, and customer complaint logs were maintained in multiple physical registers across the factory. During OEM audits, the quality team spent days preparing documentation because records were scattered and inconsistent.
• GST compliance consuming 3 days per month: With hundreds of purchase and sales transactions each month, the accounts team spent three full days every month reconciling invoices, matching input tax credits, and preparing GST returns. Errors were frequent, and two GST notices had been received in the past year.
• Material wastage at 12%: Sheet metal cutting and stamping inherently generates scrap, but without proper nesting optimization data or actual-versus-planned material consumption tracking, wastage was running at 12% - nearly double the achievable target for their product mix.
• No visibility on work-in-progress: At any given time, the factory had lakhs of rupees worth of WIP on the shop floor, but nobody could tell exactly which orders were at which stage. Customer queries about order status required manual checking across multiple departments.

The financial impact was immediate and substantial. Within the first quarter, SteelCraft Industries documented monthly savings of ₹8 lakhs across four categories.