Waste-Management system for Yarn

[Vasee Alee]

Our company is using this software with many customizations. The company's business is Machines Embroidery on fabric. we receive fabric from clients, do embroidery and return it. Yarn is our own raw-material. So, in the whole process a lot of yarn is wasted in different forms.

I'm seeking ideas for emplementing its waste-management system.

PS: our ERP is still in develepment phase, so we can easily emplement this.

thanks.

[Steven Sackett]

Hi Vasee Alee,

I am not sure what you mean by 'waste management system'.

I am guessing that you perform embroidery for others and that each job has a planned amount of each yarn and you want to monitor whether the amount of yarn that is used is being accounted for by the amount of production/sales.

An approach is...

Hold inventory of the yarns as Products, 

Create a BOM product for each customer's job that has the expected amount of each colour yarn required to embroider 1 (or N) items. include the customers unembroidered product (created as stocked or non-stocked as required (.. see below)

Modify the sales order completion process so that a Production record is created for each customer product when the sales order is completed (just to save a manual step).

Perform the embroidery and Complete the Production.  This will increment the inventory of that embroidered customer product (which can then be shipped/invoiced) and decrement the qty of each yarn product included in the that embroidered customer product's BOM.

Regular stocktakes of each yarn product should show whether usage is exceeding the allowance+waste that you have included in the BOM.

If you have a need to keep track of the qty of customers products that have been received by you and not yet returned you can create a Product for each unembroidered customer product (with a cost of a fraction of a cent so no accounting consequences) and receive the products into inventory and the qty will decremented by the Production process. Set the unembroidered customer product as 'stocked' 

Again, sorry if I have misunderstood your question.

regards