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Know an order will be late two weeks before your buyer does.
What it costs you today
Where a buyer's order actually stands requires asking three people, each of whom knows one stage of it. The answer is always slightly out of date.
By the time a delay is visible it is too late to recover it. The cost is not the delay — it is the chargeback and the buyer's next order going elsewhere.
A long specification arrives, someone reads it, and the details live in their head. What changed between revisions is discovered on the production floor.
How it works here
Signal
Buyer orders, tech packs, cutting and line records, and material stock all report in as the work happens.
Understanding
Each order's real progress is compared against the pace it must hold to ship on time, and against what materials will actually be there.
Action
The order that will run late is named while you can still add a line, reallocate, or talk to the buyer from a position of choice.
What it does from the first month
Predicts
Each order is followed through cutting, sewing, finishing and packing against the plan it needs to hit. When a stage slips far enough to threaten the ship date, you are told — with enough time left to add a line, reallocate, or negotiate.
Assembles
A buyer's specification is read and broken into materials, measurements, tolerances and compliance requirements. Anything that changed since the previous revision is flagged, so it is caught at sampling rather than at inspection.
Compares
Output is tracked line by line and operation by operation against the time the work should take. The bottleneck operation is named rather than inferred, and you can see whether yesterday's fix held.
Schedules
Sample rounds, buyer comments, revisions and approvals stop living in an email thread. Every style shows what stage it is at, what was asked for, and who is waiting on whom.
Watches
Material requirements are compared against what is in store and what is on order, continuously. A shortage that would halt a line surfaces while there is still time to expedite it.
Verifies
Social and technical compliance evidence is gathered as the work happens rather than assembled in a panic. When a buyer's auditor arrives, the file already exists.
In practice
Two are at risk. Both are held at finishing, and one has a trim shortage behind it.
line output + material stock + the shipping plan
Checked against each order's required pace
Illustration of the interface. Your data, your wording, your records.
A Tuesday in your business
A style is two days behind at sewing. On its own that means nothing — it has been recovered before. But the system knows this order's finishing stage is already committed to another buyer, and that the fabric for the next colourway has not cleared. It says so on Tuesday, not the following month. You move one line and ship on time.
Why this pays
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Test this against your real dataWhat it connects to
Read as it is. Nothing here needs replacing, and nobody needs to change how they work.
What it watches
Where sensing earns its place. Supplied at cost plus installation, and never a condition of getting started.
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