Manufacturing and garment production: bills of materials and orders with real cost
Remotjob lets you define which supplies each garment and size needs, launch manufacturing orders that reserve those supplies in Inventory, see what is left to buy and record progress by operator. When finished, it deducts the supplies and books the garment into stock at its real cost. Included in the membership.
Manufacturing without knowing which supplies are missing or what each garment cost
When the supply list lives in the workshop’s head or in a spreadsheet, you find out fabric is missing after you have already cut, nobody knows what a garment really cost, and waste goes unnoticed. Remotjob brings the bill of materials, supply stock, workshop progress and cost together in one place.
From bill of materials to finished garment, in six steps
One continuous flow on the same Inventory your company already uses.
1
Define the bill of materials
For each garment, or for a specific variant, list the supplies with quantity and waste: fabric by the meter, thread, buttons, embroidery. You can say a line applies only to certain sizes or colors.
2
Add operations and times
Add the operations (cutting, sewing, finishing) with their work center, cost per hour and standard time. Labor cost is calculated from them.
3
Launch the manufacturing order
On confirmation, the system calculates the supplies it needs, sizes included, and reserves them in Inventory. If any is short, you see it right away.
4
Buy or transfer what is missing
Planning shows which supplies are short per warehouse, what is coming in purchases and what sits in other warehouses. From there you create draft purchase orders or a suggested transfer.
5
Record workshop progress
Each operator records what they did and how many minutes it took from “My work”. The order moves to “in progress” and you see which stage it is at.
6
Produce and receive the finished item
When you produce, in full or in part, supplies are deducted and the garment enters the warehouse with its cost: supplies consumed plus labor, compared with the standard.
What is included
Bills of materials by garment or variant
Supplies with quantity, unit and waste, and rules by size or color. If you buy fabric by the roll and use it in centimeters, the list converts the units for you.
Operations, work centers and times
Work centers with a cost per hour and operations with a standard time, to calculate each garment’s labor.
Orders that reserve supplies
Each order has its own numbering, dates and origin, which can be a Store order. On confirmation it reserves supplies in Inventory, and it never consumes what is reserved for another order or delivery.
Progress by operator
A “My work” tab for the shop-floor operator, with the day’s open operations: start and record what was done. If you turn it on, progress is also reflected in Productivity.
Full or partial production with real cost
Produce in batches; what is left stays pending in the same order. The finished item’s cost adds supplies consumed and labor using the real minutes recorded, or the standard time where there is no record, and the order shows real against standard.
Lots and serial numbers in the order
The finished item can receive its lot or serial number on production, typed or generated. Supplies tracked by lot require choosing which one is consumed, with a suggestion to use what expires first, and full traceability is kept.
Scrap and real waste
Declare a supply’s scrap with its reason and compare real waste with the standard waste from the bill of materials. Scrap is shown separately and is not added to the finished item’s cost.
Shortages, purchases and “Manufacture what is missing”
Shortages are listed per warehouse and become draft purchase orders in Procurement. From a confirmed Store order you launch orders for what you do not have in stock, and from Inventory replenishment you choose to manufacture instead of buying.
Suggest with AI and process map
Paste the technical sheet or describe it and the AI proposes supplies and operations using your catalog; you review it before anything is saved. The module ships with its process map: what the team does, what the system does and what the AI does. The AI uses AI credits.
Control of every supply and every cent of cost
Manufacturing well depends on knowing what was consumed and what it cost. That is why all supply movement goes through Inventory and nothing is deducted twice.
Producing is safe against retries: if a click is repeated, supplies are not consumed twice.
Role-based permissions: someone who can only view (for example, the shop-floor operator) records their progress, and whoever manages creates bills and orders and produces.
Each organization sees only its own bills, orders, costs and supplies.
Each order keeps its history: supplies reserved and consumed, progress by operator, scrap, and lots produced and consumed.
The AI only proposes a bill of materials; nothing is saved until a person reviews it.
What your team records here becomes knowledge that Company Brain (for management) and People Chat (for the team, by role) return as answers to decide with.
What it is and what it is not
It is basic manufacturing designed for garment production. Bills of materials are single-level: there are no semi-finished items, kits, by-products or disassembly yet.
It does not plan by work-center capacity, and has no calendar, Gantt view or master production schedule.
It does not include quality control with rejections per operation.
The AI proposes the bill of materials from the technical sheet; it saves nothing by itself and its output always goes through a person.
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Manufacturing & garment production, explained in a short video
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Frequently asked questions
Do I need the Inventory module to manufacture?
Yes. Manufacturing works on top of Inventory: it reserves and consumes supplies from your warehouses and books the finished item into the order’s warehouse. That way the Store’s stock always reflects what was manufactured.
Can fabric usage differ by size?
Yes. In the bill of materials you can mark a line as counting only for certain sizes or colors, for example more fabric only for XL and XXL. When the order is confirmed, the system calculates the supply for each variant.
How is the cost of what I manufacture calculated?
It adds the value of the supplies consumed plus labor: the real minutes recorded times the work center’s cost per hour, or the standard time where there is no record. The order shows real against standard.
What happens if a supply is missing?
The order shows the shortage clearly. Planning tells you how much to buy, how much is coming in purchase orders and how much sits in other warehouses, and you can create draft purchase orders or a suggested transfer.
Does the AI make manufacturing decisions?
No. The AI only proposes a bill of materials from the technical sheet, using your catalog. The proposal is loaded into the editor for you to review, and nothing is saved without your confirmation.
Manufacture knowing what is missing and what each garment costs
Tell us what you make and how you track supplies today; we will show you what your workshop would look like in Remotjob.
