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Piece Rate System in Garment Factories: Fair, Fast and Compliant Under India’s New Labour Codes
In a piece rate system, workers are paid per unit or per operation completed instead of per day. A fair piece rate is set from […]
Capacity Planning in Garment Industry: How to Know If You Can Say “Yes” to That Order
Garment factory capacity is best measured in SAM (standard allowed minutes), not pieces. Monthly capacity = Number of operators × Working minutes per day × […]
Line Balancing in Garment Industry: SMV, Operation Bulletin and the Bottleneck You Can’t See
Line balancing is the process of assigning sewing operations to operators so that each workstation takes roughly the same time, and work flows without piling […]
Fabric Consumption Calculation in Garments: How to Stop Losing Lakhs in the Cutting Room
Fabric Consumption Fabric consumption is the quantity of fabric needed to make one garment (or one dozen). For knits, it is usually calculated by weight […]
ERP for buying houses: one system for buyers, vendor factories and every order in between
TL;DR: ERP for buying houses is built for businesses that manage production across many vendor factories without owning them. It ties together buyer orders, vendor […]
Size curve management software: getting the size mix right before you cut
TL;DR: Size curve management software works out how many units of each size to make or buy for a style, based on what actually sold, […]