Gold goes out to a karigar. A finished piece comes back. The weight has to match.
Jewellery manufacturing runs on job-work: raw gold or silver goes out to a karigar or contract workshop, and a finished piece comes back, with wastage, making charges, and purity all needing to reconcile. Yukti tracks that outward-and-back cycle instead of leaving it to a paper register and manual weight checks.
The Real Workflows Behind Jewellery Manufacturing & Job-Work
Job-work costs and BOM update with live metal rates
Yukti's subcontracting workflow tracks materials issued to a job worker and finished goods received back, with cost control on making charges and wastage allowances built into the job cost, not estimated after the fact. Bill of materials handles a piece's composition, metal weight, stone weight, and finish, with cost rollup reflecting current metal rates as they move.
Lot tracking traces a dispute back to a batch and karigar
Lot and serial tracking follows a specific batch of metal or a specific piece from raw material through job-work and into finished stock, which matters when a customer disputes purity or weight and you need to trace exactly which batch and which karigar a piece came from. Quality inspection points at receiving catch a discrepancy before the piece reaches a customer, with non-conformance logged against the specific job worker.
Multi-stage jobs track weight loss at every handoff
A single piece might go from an in-house design spec to one karigar for casting, to another for stone-setting, and back in-house for polishing. Work orders track that sequence as one connected job, with metal weight and purity recorded at each handoff, so wastage that shows up when a piece comes back lighter is tied to the specific stage and karigar responsible.
Metal cost and making charges stay on separate lines
Yukti keeps metal cost and making charges separate on the job cost: metal cost tracks against the current rate for that purity, while making charges, a flat per-gram rate, a percentage, or a fixed charge per piece, post as their own line. A manufacturer comparing margin across two pieces made a month apart can see whether a profitability shift came from the gold price or the making charge.
How the Pieces Connect
A returned piece reconciles against its exact lot
Materials issued to a karigar are tracked against a specific lot, not a generic "gold out" tally, so when a finished piece comes back, its weight and purity get reconciled against that same lot record. A discrepancy shows up at the batch level, tied to a specific job-work transaction, instead of an unexplained gap in a month-end reconciliation.
In-progress job costs track the market, not a stale quote
Bill of materials and purchasing share the same metal rate data, so cost rollup updates with the current rate rather than the rate that applied when a piece was first quoted. When gold or silver prices move while a piece is still with a karigar, the cost of that in-progress work order tracks the market instead of running on a stale costing sheet.
A karigar's wastage pattern becomes visible over time
A purity or weight discrepancy caught at receiving from a specific karigar logs against that karigar's record, not as an isolated dispute settled by argument. Over enough job-work cycles, a pattern across many orders becomes visible to management, turning a one-off wastage complaint into a data-backed conversation.
AI that tracks whether a job worker's wastage is normal or a problem
Yukti's quality agent analyzes inspection results over time to tell a normal wastage variance from a developing problem.
Watches a specific job worker's wastage and purity variance over time
Surfaces a trend before it becomes an accepted cost of doing business
Treats every job-work return as data, not a one-off exception
See What This Could Save Your Team
Production planning and scheduling
You could save ~6.0 hours/month
Based on documented ERP implementation efficiency benchmarks: planning, forecasting, and reporting activities in manufacturing typically see a 10-20% efficiency gain from AI-assisted scheduling that reduces manual replanning triggered by material shortages, machine downtime, and demand changes; enter your own expected improvement since results vary widely by production environment.
Material picking and production consumption tracking
You could save ~8.0 hours/month
Based on documented ERP implementation efficiency benchmarks: material picking and recording production consumption typically see a 20% efficiency gain when component usage is tracked automatically against the bill of materials instead of logged by hand.
Engineering change orders and BOM revisions
You could save ~0.8 hours/month
Based on documented ERP implementation efficiency benchmarks: propagating an engineering change order or bill-of-materials revision to every affected work order typically sees only a 5% efficiency gain, since this remains a largely manual review process even with automation support.
Preventive maintenance scheduling
You could save ~1.7 hours/month
Automatic preventive maintenance scheduling against equipment usage replaces manually tracking maintenance due dates across a spreadsheet.
Shop floor progress tracking
You could save ~2.1 hours/month
Real-time shop floor status visible from the office replaces walking the floor or calling supervisors to check on work order progress.
Bill of materials creation and maintenance
You could save ~4.5 hours/month
Multi-level BOMs with reusable sub-assemblies reduce the time spent rebuilding similar structures from scratch for each new product.
Production efficiency (OEE) analytics
You could save ~6.0 hours/month
Real-time OEE and cycle-time dashboards replace manually compiling downtime and output data from the shop floor into a report.
Total: ~29.1 hours/month, ~$908/month
Common Questions
If we send raw gold to three different karigars for the same order, casting, setting, and polishing, can Yukti track all three separately?
Yes. The subcontracting workflow tracks materials issued to and received back from each job worker as its own transaction, so a piece moving through three different karigars on the same order has its weight and purity recorded at each handoff, not just at the very start and end of the job.
How does the system handle making charges when we sometimes charge a flat rate per piece and sometimes a percentage of metal value?
Making charges post as their own cost line, separate from metal cost, and can be structured as a flat per-gram rate, a percentage, or a fixed charge per piece. That separation means a shift in a piece's profitability can be traced to either a metal rate move or a making-charge change, not blended into one number that hides which one actually happened.
Can we trace a specific piece back to the exact gold lot and karigar if a customer disputes purity or weight?
Yes. Lot and serial tracking follows a specific batch of metal or a specific piece from raw material through every job-work stage and into finished stock, so a purity or weight dispute can be traced back to the exact lot and the exact karigar who worked on it.
Does the cost of a piece update when gold rates move, or is it fixed at the time we quoted it?
Cost rollup on the bill of materials reflects current metal rates as they move, so the cost of a piece still in production or still with a karigar reflects today's rate, not the rate that applied when the piece was first quoted.
Can we tell if a specific karigar consistently returns more wastage than others?
Yes. Quality inspection at receiving logs weight and purity discrepancies against the specific job worker responsible, and Yukti's quality agent analyzes that data over time, surfacing a karigar whose wastage or purity variance is trending outside the normal range before it becomes an accepted cost of doing business.
Where a Simpler Tool Might Be Right
A retail jewellery counter selling finished pieces with no manufacturing or job-work relationship to manage doesn't need BOM, subcontracting, or lot-level metal tracking. A billing and stock tool built for counter sales is a better fit for that business. This page is for jewellery manufacturers and workshops running job-work with contract karigars, tracking metal purity, or managing multi-stage production.
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