Introduction

■ Fabric costs account for more than 70% of the total garment’s cost. Hence, it goes without saying how crucial, effective fabric storage and management is to the manufacturing process.

■ Fabric store in a garment factory plays a vital role in garment manufacturing process, by not only offering the factory a storage space for its raw material inventory, it also serves as fabric inspection station.

Time Management■ A sorted fabric store offers you crystal clear

visibility of stock available at every check point, which in turn helps the store manager to align his internal activities like GRN entry, physical checking against stock received from supplier, fabric inspection and relaxation, segregation as per production requirements, and indexing to make locating convenient.

Space Management:

Factories can trim down these costs and perk up their efficiency by maximizing their space utilization in the fabric store, ensuring the following things:

■ 1. Demarked area for freshly arrived fabric

■ 2. Proper Indexing of the stored fabric rolls

■ 3. Space for relaxation

Capacity Augmentation

■ Organized fabric store improves the visibility of the current potential of the store, i.e. how much inventory the store is capable to handle, i.e. store, inspect, relax, etc. This opens the gates for the factory to better analyze their current capacity and their ability to increase their capacity.

■ As discussed in the previous point, proper indexing allows the flexibility of planning the capacity utilization in advance. You have the answers to questions like what fabric will be consumed in what time and what place in the store will be empty for allocation of the new fabric. Basically, you will have the timeline for each fabric.

Inventory Management

■ An organized fabric store allows clear visibility of the in-house stock the factory has. Hence, the management is in a better position to ascertain what the factory is carrying, how much more is needed to support operations, and for how long does the current inventory potentially lasts.

■ Moreover, it also creates a clear demarcation between the inspected and uninspected rolls or lots, which make it easier to measure the efficacy of the inspection process as well.

■ A thorough knowledge of the capacity is essential to determine the inward and outward flow of every fabric present in your store. The better you know this both way flow of fabric, better will be your store management

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