Garment Costing Breakdown: How Cost Per Minute Becomes a CM Price
Why "Just Multiply SMV by Cost Per Minute" Isn't Enough A merchandiser sends a CM quote of $1.04 per piece. The buyer's costing team asks one question: how did you get that…
Apparel Production
Cutting, sewing, finishing, line layout and production planning.
3 published articles
Kanban Pull System: Cutting-to-Sewing Handoff Guide
A step-by-step account of replacing push scheduling between the cutting room and the sewing floor with a two-bin kanban, including the card calculation and the first three weeks of failure modes.
Cutting Room Efficiency: The Marker Planning Playbook
After reading this, a cutting manager or IE can separate marker efficiency from true fabric utilization, price what a point of efficiency is worth on a real order, and work through the five levers length, ply height, width, tilt and splicing that recover the fabric a CAD repo