BKMS exists because the spreadsheet we were running our own kiln on stopped being good enough.
We own and operate Ittefaq Bricks Company. Every register in BKMS — peshgi, coal average, gate passes, the investor's cut — is a register we needed ourselves before we ever thought about selling it to anyone else. When a round doesn't close cleanly, it's our round too.
That's the difference between BKMS and a generic ERP with "manufacturing" bolted on: we already know what batthaa, patthaa, and nikasi mean on the ground, because we've stood on that ground during a firing. The software follows the process — the process doesn't get bent to fit the software.
Ittefaq Bricks Company runs production, sells the output, and pays the same peshgi and payroll every register in BKMS was built to track.
New features get tried on our own rounds before they ship to any customer's kiln.
Peshgi, batthaa, patthaa, munshi — the vocabulary in BKMS is the vocabulary already used on site, in English and Urdu.
Production, labour, sales, purchasing, finance, and investor reporting — under one roof, working offline at the yard and syncing when there's signal.