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
- Subcontracting workflow tracks materials issued to a job worker and finished goods received back
- Making charges and wastage allowances build into job cost, not estimated after the fact
- BOM tracks metal weight, stone weight, and finish, with cost rollup reflecting current metal rates
Lot tracking traces a dispute back to a batch and karigar
- Lot and serial tracking follows a metal batch or piece from raw material through job-work to finished stock
- Traces a purity or weight dispute back to the exact batch and karigar
- Quality inspection at receiving catches discrepancies, logged against the specific job worker
Multi-stage jobs track weight loss at every handoff
- A piece may move from design to casting karigar, to stone-setting karigar, back in-house for polishing
- Work orders track the sequence as one connected job
- Metal weight and purity recorded at each handoff, tying wastage to the specific stage and karigar
Metal cost and making charges stay on separate lines
- Metal cost tracks against the current rate for that purity
- Making charges (flat per-gram, percentage, or fixed) post as their own separate line
- Lets a manufacturer see whether a margin 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 track against a specific lot, not a generic tally
- A returned piece's weight and purity reconcile against that same lot record
- A discrepancy shows up at the batch level, not an unexplained month-end gap
In-progress job costs track the market, not a stale quote
- BOM and purchasing share the same metal rate data
- Cost rollup updates with the current rate, not the rate quoted at order time
- An in-progress job's cost tracks the market instead of a stale costing sheet
A karigar's wastage pattern becomes visible over time
- A purity or weight discrepancy logs against the specific karigar's record
- Not an isolated dispute settled by argument
- A pattern across many orders becomes visible, turning complaints 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
You could save ~5.8 hours/month
Estimated total: ~13.3 hours/month, ~$293/month
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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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