Why a custom ERP?
Printing is manufacturing with a twist: every job is a little different. A Mushaf or a book goes through quotation → prepress proofs → plates → printing → binding → quality control → delivery, and each step consumes paper, ink, machine time and labour. Generic ERPs either ignore these steps or need expensive customisation.
The printing house needed one system where sales, production, stores and finance all work from the same data — so the cost of a job is known while it is being made, not weeks later.
Modules we delivered
| Area | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Sales & CRM | Leads, CRM activities, quotations, sales orders, price lists, returns and customer documents |
| Prepress | Prepress jobs with version history for proofs and approvals |
| Production | Bills of materials, routings, work centres, machines, production and work orders, shift logs |
| Planning (MRP) | Demand forecasts, MRP runs and purchase suggestions |
| Quality control | QC plans, inspections, defect types and results per batch |
| Maintenance | Maintenance plans, orders, spare parts and meter readings for each machine |
| Inventory | Multiple warehouses and locations, stock lots, movements, transfers and stock counts |
| Purchasing | Purchase requests, RFQs, supplier quotations, purchase orders, goods receipts and returns |
| Delivery | Vehicles, drivers, delivery routes, trips and delivery notes |
| HR & payroll | Employees, positions, attendance, leave, late penalties, loans, bonuses and payroll runs |
| Fixed assets | Asset categories, transfers and depreciation runs |
| Accounting | Chart of accounts, journals, cost centres, budgets, bank reconciliation, fiscal periods and period-close tasks |
| Tax | Tax rates and Egyptian e-invoice records |
How it works
- Event-driven accounting. Operational documents (receipts, deliveries, payroll, depreciation) post through accounting events with mapped accounts, so finance does not re-key data.
- Overhead allocation spreads indirect costs to production for realistic job costing.
- Document sequences per branch and document type keep numbering compliant.
- Role-based permissions, an audit log and attachments on every document.
- PDF documents (invoices, orders, delivery notes) with mPDF, barcodes for stock, and Excel exports for every report.
Technology
Built with Laravel 13, Livewire 4 and Tailwind CSS 4 — a fast, server-rendered interface that works well on the shop floor and in the office, with no separate SPA to maintain. MYN hosts the system at the client’s own subdomain and continues to extend it.
