Manufacturing Process for Textile / Garment Industry
Kanat Mergenbayev
Hello everyone,
Does anyone have experience implementing iDempiere in the textile or garment manufacturing industry?
I'm trying to understand how you modeled the production process.
A typical scenario is:
Fabric is purchased in rolls.
The fabric is then cut into many different pieces.
Those cut pieces become semi-finished products or are used directly in sewing.
Finally, multiple finished garments are produced.
In a traditional manufacturing BOM, a finished product is usually assembled from several raw materials. In garment manufacturing, however, the opposite often happens: one raw material (a fabric roll) is transformed into many different semi-finished or finished products through cutting.
How did you model this in iDempiere?
Did you use Production (BOM) as-is?
Did you create semi-finished products for each cut piece?
How did you handle fabric consumption, cutting losses (scrap/waste), and inventory tracking?
Did you use any customization or alternative approach?
Any advice, examples, or implementation experiences would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Mahmuda Islam
we designed apparel manufacturing process for Sysnova client. The process was structured as follows:
1. Fabric Purchase
Fabric were purchased as raw materials. They were received into the factory using the standard Purchase Receipt process.
2. Cutting Process
We created a separate Cutting production process.
It supported both BOM-based production and an option to add raw materials without using a BOM.
The required quantity of fabric was consumed, and the output was semi-finished items such as the front part, back part, sleeves, collar etc.
Fabric scrap or waste was also recorded separately for inventory and costing.
3. Sewing Process
A BOM was created for each finished item.
The sewing process consumed the semi-finished cut pieces along with other materials like thread, buttons, labels and accessories.
The finished garment was then produced through the standard Production process.
4. Additional Production Stages
Depending on the client's requirements, we could also include extra stages such as: Washing, Finishing, Packing. Each stage used the output from the previous stage and produced the next semi-finished or finished product.
5. Inventory
Inventory was maintained separately for raw materials, semi-finished items, finished goods and scrap or waste. Lot/Batch tracking was used to maintain traceability from the fabric roll all the way to the finished garment.