Garment manufacturing software for fabric, runs and size breakdowns

The loss happens on the cutting table

A roll of shirting is one purchase, one price, one line in a book. It leaves the workshop as ninety garments in five sizes, cut over three days by two people, and by then nobody can say what a single shirt cost.

The gap between the shirts a roll should have made and the shirts it actually made is the real cost of cutting. It never appears as an expense. It appears months later as a feeling that fabric has got expensive.

PesaScope treats fabric and trims as materials with their own stock, and a production run as an event that consumes them. You enter what you made and what came out damaged, and the cost per good garment comes from the materials that actually left the shelf.

How a run goes through the books

1. Take the order and the depositA school agrees a quantity and a price. Record what they paid up front; the balance sits against their name until delivery.
2. Buy fabric and trims as materialsRolls, thread, buttons and labels come in at what you actually paid, with a reorder level so a run does not stop halfway.
3. Record the runPick the garment and the number of batches, then enter good and damaged output. Materials come out of stock, finished garments go in, and the batch cost is kept.
4. Deliver and collect the balanceFinished garments sell out of stock like any product, and the outstanding amount clears when the school settles.

What a uniform workshop sets up

Pick "Garment manufacturing" at sign-up and this list is already there, and you only need the lines you actually make.

Garments are products — they have a count and sit in stock waiting for delivery. Alteration and embroidery are services, because they consume almost no fabric and would make your garment count wrong.

One school order — 300 shirts

Those eight rolls were bought expecting forty shirts each — 320 garments. You delivered 300. The twenty shirts of fabric lost to offcuts and rejects is UGX 160,000, more than the power and the delivery together, and the only cost here nobody writes down.

Sizes are separate lines, not a grid

PesaScope has no size-and-colour matrix. If you want to know how many size 32 shirts are left, size 32 has to be its own product line. That is more setup on day one, and the trade-off is that the count you get afterwards is a real count.

It matters more than it sounds. An order for 300 shirts is sixty small, a hundred and forty medium and the rest large. You fill it and finish the season holding forty larges that school does not want, still on your shelf at full cost.

There is no time-tracking either. A machinist paid by the piece is recorded as what you paid, on the day you paid it, rather than as hours worked.

Where a garment workshop leaks money

1. Fabric bought for one order, cut for anotherDated material movements show what went where, so neither run flatters itself.
2. Rejects that never get recordedA badly cut panel is fabric you paid for. Recorded as wastage, it lands in the run's cost.
3. Leftover sizes counted at full valueUnsold sizes make the business look richer than the safe says. Seeing them by line is the first step to clearing them.
4. Piece-rate pay with no run attachedOne lump at month end means no single run ever carries its own labour.

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