About Scan ERP
A garment factory ERP built by a doctor who owns a garment factory.
Scan ERP is not a vendor pitch. It is the software running my own sewing floor in Gaindakot, Nepal — tested across 1,400,000+ pieces before any other factory paid for it.
Santosh Rijal — Founder & CEO
I'm Santosh Rijal. I'm an MBBS doctor, a serial entrepreneur, and the owner of Trishakti Apparel — a 100-machine garment factory in Gaindakot, Nepal running RMG and CMT operations.
Before garments, I co-founded Medicos International, a Nepal tech startup behind MedicosPDF — a learning platform now serving 200,000+ medical students globally (93% outside Nepal) with a 4.7/5 rating. Building software that scales worldwide taught me one lesson: digital tools succeed when they meet users where they are, in the language they speak, on the device they already own.
When I bought the garment factory, every off-the-shelf ERP I evaluated violated that lesson. They were built for $50K+ fashion brands or for accounting departments — not for the sewing floor where unskilled operators (most first-generation factory workers, many illiterate) actually do the work. So I built Scan ERP myself — a complete garment factory automation platform, not just an ERP. Same discipline a doctor uses: find the bleeding point, fix it, measure outcomes. Same scale discipline I learned with MedicosPDF: works on a $50 Android phone, in any language, no IT team required.
The factory: Trishakti Apparel
Trishakti Apparel sits on 1 kattha (3,645 sq ft) in Gaindakot, Nawalpur. About 50 active workers, 100+ machines, RMG plus CMT operations. The floor is hot, dusty, and noisy — the same conditions every CMT factory in India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Ethiopia operates in.
That's the point. If a feature doesn't work for first-generation factory workers operating a $50 Android in a dusty room with intermittent WiFi, it doesn't make it into Scan ERP. The product is built from the operator's side of the QR scan — not from a vendor's slide deck.
Scan ERP has tracked 1,400,000+ pieces through RMG and CMT lines in my own factory since 2024. Every feature exists because I needed it on my own floor first. The pricing — $5/machine or $0.001/piece, whichever is cheaper — exists because I refused to charge other factory owners more than my own factory could afford.
The mission
"We don't want to earn much. When your factory earns, that's our satisfaction. That's the mission — revolutionize garment factory automation from the factory floor side, not the vendor side."
Scan ERP is not built for fashion brands buying ERP for accounting compliance. It is built for the small-to-mid CMT factory owner who is losing money to paper bundle tickets, payroll disputes, missing pieces, and WhatsApp-driven production decisions.
The target customers are factories in India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Ethiopia — the geographies where the global garment supply chain actually runs. Nepal is the origin of the company, not the market.
Press & published interviews
Long-form interview on smart textile manufacturing, real-time analytics, QR-enabled tracking, and transparent production monitoring.
Profile on the unusual founder path — from medical practice and a 200,000+ user EdTech platform to running a CMT factory and building its software from the floor up.
Talk to the founder directly
There is no sales team. If you run a CMT or RMG factory and want to see how Scan ERP works on your floor, send a WhatsApp message. I reply.