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Style costing from the marker or GSM, and the SMV

Cost a style before you take the order. Fabric per piece comes from the marker length or from GSM and area, with waste on top. The making cost comes from the SMV at your cost per minute. Overhead, margin and quantity breaks price it.
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The problem it solves

  • A buyer wants a price today and the fabric consumption is a guess.
  • Making charges are quoted from memory, not from the minutes the style takes.
  • Two merchandisers price the same style differently.

How it works

  1. Open an estimate under Manufacturing > Products > Estimates, with the customer and the style.
  2. Add the fabric as a material line. Show the textile columns and give the marker length and pieces per marker; metres per piece fill in.
  3. Or give the fabric area per piece in square metres; with the fabric's GSM on the item, kg per piece fill in.
  4. Add trims and other material with a waste percent where needed.
  5. On the Steps tab type the SMV and your cost per minute, and press Put CMT on the Estimate. A CMT step is added, replacing an earlier one.
  6. Add quantities to price. Each shows cost and price per piece after overhead and margin. When the buyer agrees, tick the quantity and press Won.

Everything it does

Fabric

  • Marker Length (m) / Pieces per Marker = metres per piece
  • Fabric Area per Piece (sq m) x GSM / 1,000 = kg per piece
  • The textile columns are hidden in the list to start with; show them from the column menu
  • Waste (%) on each material line is added to its cost and to the BOM made when won

CMT

  • SMV (min) and Cost per Minute on the estimate
  • Put CMT on the Estimate adds a step CMT: minutes per piece = SMV, cost per hour = cost per minute x 60
  • The SMV is typed; it is not read from the style's operation bulletin

Pricing (from estimates)

  • Overhead 10 % and margin 20 % to start with, per estimate
  • Quantities: cost and price per piece and total for each quantity (100 to start with)
  • Print and Send; Won makes the item (or uses the existing one), its BOM and a quotation for the customer; Lost needs a reason

Who uses it

Merchandiser or estimatorCosts the style and sends the price.
Industrial engineerGives the SMV from the operation bulletin.
OwnerChecks margin before the price goes out.

Where you use it

  • Web: Manufacturing > Products > Estimates (Planner role and above)
  • Printed: the estimate PDF
  • Not in the SmartMy Manufacturing app: the textile screens are on the web only

What you control

Settings

  • Textile screens: Settings > Manufacturing > Industry: Textile, per Entity (off to start with) (the marker, area and CMT fields show only then)
  • Overhead 10 % and margin 20 %: per estimate
  • Cost per minute: per estimate, not a setting of the Entity

Questions

Can we cost from the marker?

Yes. Give the marker length and how many pieces it holds; metres per piece fill in. Add waste in percent on the same line.

We knit and sell by weight. Can we cost in kg?

Yes. Give the fabric area per piece in square metres; with GSM on the fabric item, kg per piece fill in.

Does the SMV come from the operation bulletin?

Not by itself. Type the SMV from your bulletin on the estimate; the bulletin's total SMV is on the assembly line screen.

What does Won make?

The item (or the existing item you chose), its BOM with the material and waste, and a quotation for the quantity the buyer takes.

Related features

PRODUCTION AND JOB WORKEstimates priced by quantity, made into the item, BOM and quotationPrice a new job from its material, its steps on your machines, overhead and margin, at each quantity the buyer asks for. Send the estimate as a PDF; when it is won, the item, its bill of materials and the sales quotation are made from it.TEXTILE AND GARMENTSTextile: fabric data, rolls and style orders by ratioKeep yarn and fabric details on your items and every roll with its metres, kg, shade and dye lot. Take a buyer's style order by colour and size ratio and make one production order per colour and size in one step.LINES AND SCHEDULINGAssembly lines: operation bulletins, balancing and hourly outputSet up each line with its stations, and write an operation bulletin per item with the SMV of every step. See the bottleneck and line balance at once. Each day's line plan becomes a production order, and the hourly board fills from the shop floor terminal.PLANNING, QUALITY AND COSTStandard cost roll-up from the BOMWork out what each item you make should cost, rolled up level by level. It counts its components, machine and labour time from the bill of materials, and your factory overhead. Keep each standard from a date, and print a cost sheet with office overhead, profit and a suggested price.DESIGN FILES AND QUOTESDraft with AI on estimatesPress Draft with AI on an estimate. The buyer's drawings, the measured CAD figures, your machines with their costs and similar past estimates go to the SmartMy AI service. Back come material lines, steps on your machines with minutes, and the assumptions, for your estimator to check before anything is sent.

See your shop floor on it.

Tell us what you make, how many machines and people you run, and how production is recorded today. We will set up a line with you and run a job on the terminal.
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