The Complete ERP Platform for Cosmetics & Personal Care

Creams, oils, shampoos, colour — a cosmetics unit runs its own brands, fills for other people's brands, and ships both. Trade Node holds the formulation, the filling run, the pack, the client who owns the label and the consignment that leaves the country, on one platform.

• Formulations on record
• Own-brand and white-label runs
• Pack-wise stock to export

The problems this trade lives with

• Formulations live with one person: The working recipe sits in a chemist's file and in their memory. When they are away the run waits, and nobody can say what the last batch actually consumed.
• Client jobs get mixed with your own: Filling for a client brand uses the same floor, the same tanks and often the same stock. Telling their job apart from yours at costing time is guesswork.
• Packing material quietly eats the margin: Bottles, caps, cartons, labels and shrink at four different rates. The pack often costs more than what goes inside it, and it is the part nobody costs properly.
• SKUs multiply faster than the rate list: One product, six sizes, three MRPs, two label versions and a monthly scheme pack. Printed rate lists and stock registers go stale within a week.

How Trade Node runs it

• Every formulation is a recipe the system knows: Bills of material record what a batch should consume and what it should yield, so a run is reproducible whether or not the person who wrote it is on the floor that day.
• Work orders show where a batch actually is: Mixing, filling, labelling, cartoning — stage-wise work orders on a live board say which stage a job is stuck at, without a walk to the shop floor.
• Client brands kept separate from yours: White-label buyers sit on record as their own accounts with their own rates, orders and dispatch history, so a client's brand is never settled against your own sales.
• Packing material costed like material: Bottles, caps, cartons and labels are purchased, stocked and consumed like any other input, so the true cost of a filled pack is visible instead of assumed.
• Variants, sizes and rates in one catalogue: Every SKU carries its pack size and rate in a single catalogue, published once, so the list your distributors see is the list you actually sell from.

Why one platform

• A maker and a seller in one system: Most software makes you choose between manufacturing and distribution. A cosmetics unit needs both on the same day, on the same stock, in the same books.
• Own brands and other people's brands, side by side: Contract filling is not an exception to be worked around. Client accounts, their orders and their dispatches are ordinary records here.
• Built for Indian trade paperwork: GST invoices, e-way bills, dispatch challans and export consignments come out of the same flow the goods do, and Tally sync keeps your accountant where they are.

Modules for this trade

• Factory: Formulations as bills of material, filling and packing work orders by station, a waste ledger for rejects and rework, and a machine register for the filling lines.
• Catalog: Every variant, pack size and rate in one catalogue, so distributors and client brands see exactly what you sell.
• Partners: White-label clients and distributors on record with their own rates, orders and dispatch history — their brand kept clean of yours.
• Trade: Published rates, distributor orders and scheme packs, with quotes for the buyers who want a price before they commit.
• Operations: Stock across finished goods and packing material, dispatch challans with e-way bills, and export consignments with customs milestones and forex values.
• Finance: GST invoices from actual dispatch, live outstanding per client and distributor, and payments posted to the ledger as they land.

Frequently asked questions

Can we run our own brand and third-party filling on the same system?

Yes. Client brands are ordinary accounts with their own rates, orders and dispatch history, so contract filling is tracked separately from your own sales without running a second system.

Does it track packing material as well as the formulation?

Yes. Bottles, caps, cartons and labels are purchased, stocked and consumed like any other input, so the cost of a filled pack includes what the pack itself cost.

Can we handle export orders for our own brand?

Export consignments carry customs milestones, foreign-currency values and trade document references alongside domestic dispatches, so the same team runs both.

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