Tej Flow Case Study

Overview

Tej Flow is an ERP software platform designed for steel fabrication businesses where operations span enquiries, material requests, purchasing, inspection, stock movement, job execution, dispatch, maintenance, manpower allocation, and reporting.

The system contains more than 180 tables, reflecting the depth of the domain model and the number of operational entities required to run fabrication workflows properly.

Technodweep designed Tej Flow as a serious operational backbone, not a lightweight workflow tool. The platform supports structured approvals, traceable execution, and management-level visibility across day-to-day plant and project operations.

The challenge

Steel fabrication ERP is difficult because the software has to map real industrial processes, not generic office workflows. Each department depends on accurate data from the previous stage, and small gaps can create delays across procurement, production, inventory, dispatch, and reporting.

• Large approval flows across operational departments
• Purchase lifecycle from material request to purchase order
• Enquiry handling and comparison statements
• MRIR, stock, and material movement visibility
• Job order, AMTR, packing, bundling, and delivery note tracking
• Separate tracking needs for steel structures and vessel jobs
• Machine tools maintenance and man-hour allocation
• Management reports across production and operations

The challenge was to convert a complex fabrication operation into a structured ERP system without flattening important business rules or losing operational traceability.

What Technodweep delivered

Technodweep delivered a broad ERP system covering the core workflows required by a steel fabrication company, with module boundaries designed around real departments and operational responsibilities.

• Complete approval flow architecture
• Purchase, material request, and purchase order workflows
• Enquiry and comparison statement modules
• MRIR, stock, and inventory process tracking
• Job order and AMTR tracking
• Packing, bundling, and delivery note workflows
• Steel structure and vessel job tracking
• Machine tools maintenance workflows
• Man-hour allocation and operational reports

Domain architecture

The ERP required a large domain model because fabrication operations depend on many linked entities: enquiries, materials, vendors, requests, approvals, inspections, stock positions, job orders, AMTR records, bundles, delivery notes, vessel jobs, machine tools, manpower, and reports.

With more than 180 tables, the priority was to keep the system understandable and maintainable while preserving the detail required by real users. Each workflow needed clear state transitions, ownership, and traceability from request to execution.

This is where architecture quality matters. A generic CRUD approach would not be enough for this kind of ERP. Tej Flow needed a system structure that could support complex dependencies, department-level approvals, and long-running operational processes.

Key workflow areas

Why the architecture mattered

ERP systems become difficult to maintain when approvals, stock movement, job execution, and reporting are treated as disconnected features. Tej Flow was structured around the real flow of work so each module could connect cleanly with the next operational stage.

The platform gives fabrication teams a stronger foundation for managing accountability: who requested, who approved, what was purchased, what was received, where materials moved, how jobs progressed, what was packed, and what was delivered.