For manufacturers whose product is made, not bought. One job carries a customer’s order from production plan through material, labour and overheads to the finished piece — and tells you what it actually cost.
| S# | Date | Item | Formulation | Qty | UOM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 03-08-26 | Pashmina Shawl — Embroidered | SHWL-EMB-STD | 30 | Pcs |
| 2 | 03-08-26 | Three-Piece Suit — Printed | 3PC-PRN-STD | 15 | Pcs |
The BOQ — one job document, nine views of it.
Every other product in the range sells what it bought. BizMan is for the case where it doesn’t — where fabric becomes a shawl, and a customer’s order becomes a job.
The question that matters here is not what did I sell but what did it cost me to make. One document carries the answer from the production plan through material, labour and overheads to the finished piece.
A BOQ is the job. It opens when the customer orders and closes when the goods go out, and everything that happens in between is a different view of the same document.
What is being made, from which formulation, how many, by when. The customer, the project and the delivery date sit at the top of the job, so nobody has to go and ask which order this batch belongs to.
What it takes. Fabric drawn against a lot number, lining, thread and trims — the material side of the cost, itemised rather than estimated.
The labour side, by work centre. Washing, embroidery, stitching and packing each carry their own rate and their own piece count, so the labour in a finished shawl is a figure rather than a feeling.
Electricity, machine maintenance, factory allocation. The costs everyone knows are real and almost nobody puts against the job that caused them.
When each piece of work happens. A delivery date at the top of the job is a promise; this is the part that decides whether you keep it.
What to draw from stores against this job — raised before anything moves, so the storekeeper issues against a document rather than a phone call.
Material going out to a work centre and being consumed there. This is the movement the whole page turns on, and it is covered properly below.
Goods received and goods returned against the job, so what came back is recorded on the same document that says what went out.
What went out against what has come back. This is the answer to where are my goods right now, and it is one click from the job.
These are not nine features we assembled for a website. They are the nine layouts in the dropdown on the BOQ screen, in the order the software lists them. A job is one document because that is how the software was built — not because it reads well.
Every factory owner has had this conversation. Something is late, nobody is quite sure where it is, and finding out means three phone calls and a walk around the floor.
Material leaves on a returnable gate pass and comes back on an inward one. The difference is the answer, and it is a report rather than an investigation.
Note what this is not: it is not a promise that nothing goes missing. It is a promise that you will know, the same day, exactly how much and at whose premises.
| Work Centre | Contractor | Out | Back | Pending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washing | In-house | 45 | 45 | 0 |
| Embroidery | Hafeez Embroidery Works | 30 | 30 | 0 |
| Stitching | Al-Noor Stitching | 45 | 30 | 15 |
| Packing | In-house | 30 | 30 | 0 |
| Total — 4 work centres | 150 | 135 | 15 | |
Material, labour and overheads are three separate documents on the same job. The costing sheet adds them up and sets the total against what you budgeted.
These are four layouts of BOQ #0142. The first three are the cost as it was incurred; the fourth is the same money set against the budget, which is where an overrun stops being a surprise.
| Material | Lot | Qty | UOM | Rate | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw fabric — greige | LOT-2608 | 275.00 | Mtr | 850.00 | 233,750.00 |
| Lining fabric | LOT-2611 | 45.00 | Mtr | 320.00 | 14,400.00 |
| Thread, buttons & trims | — | 1 | Set | 8,600.00 | 8,600.00 |
| Bill of Material — 3 lines | 256,750.00 | ||||
| Work Centre | Contractor | Pcs | Rate | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washing | In-house | 45 | 120.00 | 5,400.00 |
| Embroidery | Hafeez Embroidery Works | 30 | 950.00 | 28,500.00 |
| Stitching | Al-Noor Stitching | 45 | 340.00 | 15,300.00 |
| Packing | In-house | 45 | 60.00 | 2,700.00 |
| Bill of Labour — 4 work centres | 51,900.00 | |||
| Overhead | Basis | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Electricity & fuel | Metered, apportioned by hours | 9,200.00 |
| Machine maintenance | Apportioned by hours | 4,300.00 |
| Factory overhead allocation | Standard rate per piece | 12,500.00 |
| Production Overheads — 3 lines | 26,000.00 | |
| Cost head | Budget | Actual | Variance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Material | 252,500.00 | 256,750.00 | 4,250.00 |
| Labour | 49,400.00 | 51,900.00 | 2,500.00 |
| Overheads | 23,600.00 | 26,000.00 | 2,400.00 |
| Sale value — 30 shawls, 15 suits | — | 417,000.00 | — |
| Job cost — 3 heads | 325,500.00 | 334,650.00 | 9,150.00 |
Standard against actual, on the same job. The shawls should have taken 150 metres and took 155 — and that five metres is not a rounding error, it is Rs 4,250.
Look back at the costing sheet and the material overrun is exactly that figure. The wastage report does not just report a loss; it explains a line in the budget variance.
This is the number most factories suspect and cannot prove. It is also the one that pays for the software.
| Item | Pcs | Std / pc | Standard | Actual | Variance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pashmina Shawl — Embroidered | 30 | 5.00 | 150.00 | 155.00 | 5.00 |
| Three-Piece Suit — Printed | 15 | 8.00 | 120.00 | 120.00 | 0.00 |
| Total — 2 items (Mtr) | 45 | 270.00 | 275.00 | 5.00 |
Production is the reason to buy BizMan. It is not the only thing in it.
Vouchers, cash and bank receipts and payments, cash book, bank book and day book on the entry side. Trial balance, journal, income statement, balance sheet, chart of accounts, payables and receivables on the reporting side. BizMan is the only product in the range with a trial balance and a journal.
A purchase demand is raised before a purchase order exists, so buying starts with a request rather than a decision. Goods receive notes, purchase returns and purchase invoices follow, and an automatic PO can be generated rather than typed.
A goods inspection report against what arrived. For a manufacturer, material that fails inspection after it has gone to a work centre is a job already going wrong.
A service invoice sits alongside the supply invoice. Not every line a manufacturer bills is a physical thing, and no other product in the range handles that.
Shipping expense types spread freight and duty across the items that carried them, and currency rates are maintained in the system. Importer language, because importers are who needs it.
Sales, purchase, stock, transfers, issuance, production and financial statements — plus a custom report builder and tax reports for anything the list does not already cover.
Deliberately not on this list: payroll, HR and fixed assets. BizMan holds employee records, but it is not a payroll system and we will not sell it as one. If that is what you need, say so on the call and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.
No. The production side exists because a customer told us gate passes were too abstract for his factory. You send goods to washing, then embroidery. Same movement underneath, named the way you already say it.
It runs on your own machines and your own server, like everything else we make. No internet needed to work a shift. A cloud option exists if you want it.
No. The licence is one-time, and monthly support is separate and optional. You are not renting the system that runs your factory.
Then look at RetailWiz Full first. It does single-step assembly — recipe in, finished item out — and for a shop that occasionally makes something, that is usually enough.
| Runs | Fully offline. Cloud option available. |
|---|---|
| Modules | Sales · Purchase · Inventory · Finance · Job Management · Reports |
| Production | Work centres, formulations, BOQ jobs, standard-vs-actual yield |
| Accounting | To trial balance, journal, income statement and balance sheet |
| Locations | Multiple locations and warehouses, with stock transfer and gate passes |
| Currency | Multi-currency, with maintained rates |
| Database | SQL Server 2008 or later |
| Migration | Bring your data from Excel or your existing system |
| Licensing | One-time licence + optional monthly support |
| Price | Contact for pricing |
The question is not how big your business is. It is whether you make what you sell.
RetailWiz Full can make a product. BizMan follows it through every stage of making it. If a recipe in and a finished item out describes your production, Full already does that and costs less. If material leaves your building and comes back changed, it does not.
| RetailWiz Full | BizMan ERP | |
|---|---|---|
| Buying, stock, selling, customers, suppliers | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple locations and warehouses | ✓ | ✓ |
| Recipe / formulation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Consume material, produce a finished item | ✓ single step | ✓ |
| Balance sheet and chart of accounts | ✓ | ✓ |
| Trial balance and journal | — | ✓ |
| A job raised against a customer order and delivery date | — | ✓ |
| Work centres — goods tracked stage by stage | — | ✓ |
| Bill of labour and production overheads on the job | — | ✓ |
| Job budget against actual cost | — | ✓ |
| Gate passes — material out to a contractor and back | — | ✓ |
| Standard against actual yield | — | ✓ |
| Task scheduling | — | ✓ |
| Service invoicing | — | ✓ |
Most businesses that ask us about BizMan should be buying RetailWiz Full. Manufacturing software sold to a business that does not manufacture is an expensive way to make everyone’s day slower. We would rather tell you that on the call than after the invoice.
RetailWiz Full can make a product — you give it a recipe, it consumes the material and produces the finished item in one step. BizMan follows the job through every stage of making it, against a customer’s order and a delivery date, with material, labour and overheads accumulating on that job. If what you sell is what you bought, you do not need BizMan.
Yes. Material goes out on a returnable gate pass and comes back on an inward one, and the difference is visible at any moment. The Transfer VS Pending view shows exactly how much is still sitting with each contractor or work centre.
No. The gate pass is the general version, and it is there if you want it. The production side was built because a customer told us gate passes were too abstract for his factory — so instead of raising a returnable outward pass, you send goods to washing, then to embroidery. Same movement underneath, named the way you already talk about it.
That is what the job budget and the costing sheet are for. Material, labour and overheads are three separate documents on the same job, and the costing sheet sets the total against the budget so the overrun has a line next to it rather than being a surprise at the end of the month.
It handles it. Vouchers, cash and bank books and the day book on the entry side; trial balance, journal, income statement, balance sheet and chart of accounts on the reporting side. BizMan is the only product in the range with a trial balance and a journal.
Bring a job you have already finished and we will cost it in front of you. Fifteen minutes.