Apparel21 includes full discrete production functionality speficially designed to handle the manufacturing of coloured and sized products. This functionality covers planning, tracking and costing of orders with support for both in-house, sub-contracted and multi-supplier production runs. Of course this functionality is all fully integrated with the inventory and financial modules too.

Planning

• Single screen Bill of Material entry and editing for all colours and sizes of a style
• Full MRP calculations including delivery, production and supplier lead times
• Automated purchasing of raw materials from MRP calculations with manual override
• Sales forecasts can be incorporated in MRP and production planning
• Automatic creation of production orders using sales quantities

Tracking

• Track orders through multiple stages (with potentially multiple suppliers)
• Issue and return raw materials by stage
• Record shortages and overs by stage and reason code for loss analysis
• Summary production status reports by stage
• Use barcoded work tickets to track progress between stages with operator performance reporting