Delivery dates, capacity and cutting yield in textile and apparel.
In apparel the plan changes when orders get tight, not when they arrive. How much fabric became product, where the subcontracted work stands, and whether the delivery date will hold are usually learned over the phone. Miletus moves that information onto the record.
Cutting yield is not calculated per style; fabric loss is only seen as a lump sum.
The stage of subcontracted work is established by phoning the workshop.
Whether a delivery date will hold becomes clear only once the order runs late.
Line balancing is done from experience; which operation is the bottleneck is never measured.
Second-quality and repair rates are not tracked per style or per line.
Cutting yield depends on the habits of whoever lays the marker. The state of subcontracted work is known from what the workshop says. The delivery date is promised optimistically at order intake.
Cutting yield is recorded per style and per lot, so loss shows up where it happens. Every bundle sent to and returned from a subcontractor is on record with its stage. The delivery date is computed from line capacity and current load, and is visible at order intake.
A synthetic example: every cutting lot gets a bar-coded ticket. The ticket is scanned at the line and again when work leaves for a subcontractor, so a bundle is visible at whatever stage it sits. Cutting yield is computed per style from fabric in versus pieces out. The planning screen shows line capacity alongside open orders, so when a new order is taken, where its delivery date lands is read off the same screen.
The order list, style codes and due dates.
Fabric goods-in records and cutting-lot data.
The line and operation list with standard times.
Subcontractor dispatch and return records.
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