Migrating from Spreadsheets to a Custom ERP for Jaipur Handicraft Exporters
How Jaipur's handicraft, furniture and textile exporters can move from Excel and email to an ERP that tracks orders, artisans, inspections and shipments.
A typical Jaipur export house runs on an order sheet in Excel, a WhatsApp group with each vendor and a merchandiser's memory. It works with five buyers. With twenty, shipments slip and nobody is sure which version of the order sheet is current.
What spreadsheets cannot do
Migration in steps
The item master with photographs is half the project. Start there.
Working with artisans and small vendors
Vendors will not log into an ERP. A simple mobile link or WhatsApp update for each order, in Hindi, gets status without asking them to change how they work.
AI
Buyer purchase orders read into the system, product descriptions drafted for catalogues and delay risk estimated per vendor.
Cost
Subscription tools charge per user monthly. A custom system costs once and includes a year of AMC.
