Garment and textile ERP guides

Plain-English guides for garment and textile factory owners, production managers and ERP buyers. Each guide answers one question, with real examples from the factory floor.

• How much does garment ERP cost?

  Pricing models, the costs people forget, a first-year cost sheet you can copy, and a worked example from published plan prices.

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• How to choose a garment ERP

  A step-by-step way to compare garment ERP systems: must-haves, a feature checklist with demo tests, what is not included, first-year cost, support and red flags.

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• How to track and control WIP in a garment factory

  Where WIP builds up, how to measure it by department, size and colour, how to find the bottleneck with WIP in days, and habits that stop pieces getting lost.

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• What is fabric lot tracking?

  Lots, dye lots, bales, rolls and thans explained; why lots matter for shade and stock; what to record at receipt and how a lot moves through the factory.

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• What is job work in textile manufacturing?

  Types of job work, how one cycle runs, how to work out the real cost after processing loss, what to record, and job work under GST in India.

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• Garment BOM: what it is and how to work it out

  What goes into a garment bill of materials, how to calculate fabric consumption for woven and knit, size and colour lines, allowances and common mistakes.

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• What is garment ERP?

  What garment ERP software does, how one order moves through it, how it differs from a general ERP or Excel, and what to check before you buy.

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