Migrating from Excel to ERP: A Guide for Tiruppur Knitwear Exporters
How Tiruppur exporters can replace merchandiser spreadsheets with an ERP without slowing orders: what to move first, and how to get job-work units to cooperate.
In most Tiruppur export houses each merchandiser keeps an Excel file per buyer. The files hold everything: order details, fabric programme, job-work status, approvals. When the merchandiser is on leave, so is the information.
Cost of the spreadsheet method
What to move first
Once delivery challans come from the system, job-work status updates itself.
Getting job-work units on board
Knitters and dyers will not use your ERP. They will accept a challan with a QR code and a WhatsApp message asking for delivery confirmation. That is enough.
Running orders
Do not migrate half-finished orders in detail. Enter open orders with current balances, and run new orders fully in the system.
Cost
Apparel ERP subscriptions charge per user per month. Ours is a one-time cost with a year of AMC.
