Who orders jars in Dewas
Dewas is an industrial city of about 2.9 lakh people (Census 2011). Older reports describe a large cluster of factories, around 400 units in figures from before 2020, with several well-known manufacturers named in a Water Conflict Forum document. Those numbers are dated, so treat them as a sign of the type of city rather than a headcount. If your plant is in Dewas, your list probably includes some of the following.
- Factories and workshops. Large, regular orders delivered to a gate, a canteen or a shop floor. Delivery often has to fit around shifts.
- Offices and small commercial units. A few jars a day, usually paid monthly.
- Households in colonies. One or two jars on a regular cycle.
- Shops, schools and clinics. Short, steady orders.
- Labour housing or contractor sites, if you serve them. Counts change when a contract starts or ends.
A factory customer is different from a household in three ways. The order is larger, so a missed delivery is more visible. The person who signs the invoice is often in accounts and has never seen the delivery. And the site may have a gate pass or a security process that adds minutes to every stop.
Water supply, as reported
A CSE profile of Dewas and a 2016 YourStory article describe demand above 18 MLD against supply of 14 to 15 MLD, with around 12 MLD reaching users after leakage. They also say tube wells have run dry every summer, and that the Kshipra and Narmada (piped roughly 70 km via the Indore route) make up about 70 percent of supply. These are figures from the 2010s. They are useful background for understanding why households and businesses look for other drinking water, and they are not a description of today. We found no sourced water-quality figures for Dewas, so this page makes none.
Seasonal pressure points
The one pressure point the sources support is summer. If tube wells go dry each summer, as the older reports say, households on those wells and businesses that depend on them look to jar supply. Your jar stock and plant output are the limits, so count them before April.
Beyond that, factory demand depends on the shift pattern and the production calendar. We found no sourced data on this, so ask each factory customer for its shift timings, shutdown weeks and holidays, and enter them as dates on the standing order. A plant that shuts for a week should not get a driver at its gate that week.
Planning routes
Dewas is about 35 km from Indore. Some suppliers run routes across both cities, and the key constraint is the road time between them. A driver who spends two hours on a highway will not complete as many stops as one who stays inside the city. Think about whether a combined run is worth it.
- Keep Dewas customers on routes of their own, even if the driver starts from an Indore plant.
- For factory customers, give a fixed delivery window and fill it at the same time every visit, so the gate staff learn your driver.
- Review the route monthly. A new colony or a new factory unit changes how stops cluster.
If you also deliver in Indore, treat Indore and Dewas as separate routes in your records even when the same vehicle serves both. That way the Dewas stops show their own short deliveries and empties. For a deeper look, read running multiple delivery routes.
What to set up in an app
- Factory standing orders. A factory order is usually daily or on working days. Give it its own price, and use a temporary order when a contractor site needs extra jars for a fixed number of weeks. See standing orders and pricing per customer.
- Empties. Factories keep jars at several points and move them between floors and canteens. Count empties at each visit, and compare a factory’s delivered and returned numbers over a month. The empties guide shows how to read the pattern.
- Credit. Factories often pay 30 days or more after invoice. Record every payment with its date, and use the dues report to see which accounts are drifting past 30 days.
Example (made-up round numbers, illustrative only). A factory takes 30 jars on each working day, about 26 days a month, at ₹40 a jar. That is ₹31,200 a month from one customer. If payment slips from 30 to 60 days, you carry about ₹62,400 of that customer’s billing at once.
How Pyaau helps
Pyaau gives each driver the day’s route, built the night before from customers and standing orders. At each stop the driver sets delivered jars and empties taken back, and the stop shows short or extra jars as -1 or +2. The owner can see delivered, skipped and short jars for a day from the office. Standing orders carry their own price, and a customer with a regular order plus an extra shows as one combined stop. Customers belong to routes, so Dewas and Indore can sit on separate routes inside one business.
Payments are recorded in the app, and the app can run in Hindi. Coming next: WhatsApp billing and a web admin panel.