A Lahore company rarely sits in one place. The brand's head office is in Gulberg, its stores are in DHA, Emporium Mall and Packages Mall, and its warehouse is off Ferozepur Road. The textile group has its office in Model Town and its mills on Multan Road or in Sundar. The distributor's godown is near Kot Lakhpat and its vans cover Sheikhupura, Kasur and Okara. Each place keeps its own sheet, and the owner stitches them together on WhatsApp every evening.
ERP software for Lahore: four businesses, one problem
| Company | Start with | Add in the next release |
|---|---|---|
| Fashion brand with stores and online | Stock by store and warehouse, one price list, online orders in the same stock | Production orders to stitching units, sell-through by design |
| Textile or garment head office | Order file per buyer with programme and shipment dates | Yarn and fabric purchasing, contractor work, export documents |
| Distributor on Punjab routes | Sales by route and salesman, recoveries, scheme accounting | Van stock, order-booking app, company claims |
| Construction or real-estate developer | Project budgets, purchase orders, site requisitions | Contractor bills, retention, sales of plots and units |
Fashion brands: stores, warehouse and the online shop
A pret or lawn brand sells the same design in a DHA store, at Emporium Mall and on its website. If each has its own stock, the website sells a size the store sold an hour ago. The ERP holds one stock across stores, warehouse and online, moves it with transfer notes, and shows sell-through by design and size so the next cut is right. Online orders, courier dispatch and returns belong in the same system as the store sale. See textile ERP for Pakistan for the production side.
Textile and garment head offices
A garment exporter's head office in Lahore runs each buyer order as a file: the programme, yarn and fabric bought for it, work given to stitching units, packing and the shipment. The ERP keeps that file from enquiry to payment. Our textile work so far is the corporate website for Syed Ahmed & Sons, a Karachi textile company; the ERP shape we have built is Sea Keepers, which runs a supplier from the first enquiry email to the final delivery documents. A textile order file follows the same idea.
Distributors: routes and recoveries
A distributor covering Punjab routes from Lahore sells on udhaar and lives on recoveries. The ERP should show, by route and by salesman, what was sold, what was collected and what is overdue, and should account for company schemes separately from price. Company schemes, such as free cases on a target or a season-end discount, are posted when they arrive, so the salesman's price and the company's benefit are never confused, and the claim is made from a report. Van stock, order booking on a phone and company claims come in the next release, once the ledger is trusted.
Developers
A developer selling plots or apartments in Lahore's housing schemes needs two things joined: the project's cost, coded by phase, and the sales ledger of buyers paying in instalments. The ERP holds budgets, purchase orders and contractor bills on one side, and buyer files with instalment schedules and recoveries on the other, so the owner sees both the cost of a block and what has been collected against it. Instalment reminders go out on WhatsApp before the due date, and the recovery report lists who has missed one.
PKR books and sales tax
The books come out of these operations, not from a separate entry. Sales invoices carry FBR sales tax on goods; services sold in Lahore carry Punjab Revenue Authority sales tax on services. The ERP puts the right line on each invoice and produces the monthly summary. Which registrations apply to your company: confirm with your tax adviser.
Discovery on video
Walk us through one order, one purchase and one month-end, screen-shared from your office.
Approve the screens
Every screen is designed and shown to you before it is built.
Release weekly on your data
You test each release with real items, customers and invoices.
Train on the live system
In Urdu or English, over video, with a visit to Lahore when the go-live needs one.
Support on one WhatsApp number
The same number from the first call onwards.
Delivered online from Karachi
Operix has no Lahore office; we work with Lahore companies online, with visits when the project needs them. See how we work with Lahore businesses, where Lahore sits in ERP software in Pakistan by city, and the ERP software for Pakistan page for the modules. Then book a demo and bring one order and one month-end.
Questions people ask
Can the ERP connect our stores and online shop to one stock?
Yes. Stores, warehouse and the online shop sell from one stock, transfers are recorded at both ends, and online orders, dispatch and returns are handled in the same system as store sales.
Does it handle recoveries for a distributor's routes?
Yes. Sales, collections and overdue balances are shown by route, salesman and customer, and company schemes are accounted separately from price.
Can we keep our accountant's software?
Yes. The ERP can export to or integrate with your accounting package, or the books can live in the ERP itself. The choice is made at discovery.
Do you have an office in Lahore?
No. Operix is in Karachi. Lahore companies work with us online, with visits when the project needs them, on the same WhatsApp number as every other client.
How much does ERP software cost in Lahore?
It depends on modules, users, branches and integrations. Operix does not publish prices; a written quote with milestones follows the discovery call.
