Product: Costing and Merchandising (CAM)

BENEFITS
That are essential to effective Apparel Supply Chain Management and Global Sourcing.


• Shortens lead time: Speeds completion of price quotations.
• Trustworthy information fast: Constant updating with easy look-up capability means decision power at your fingertips.
• Get the business you need: Helps you win borderline bids and avoid losers by knowing exactly what it will cost your plant to produce a style.
• Reduces Bill of Material (BOM) administration: One BOM for a style serves for multiple colors and sizes
• Begin production faster: Streamlines purchasing, since BOM is already drawn up during the estimating phase.
• Improves labor management: Provides maximum lead time to anticipate hiring and training needs.
• Integrates costing with updated material and labor costs: When a labor rate or material rate is changed, costing of all styles affected is automatically updated.
• Complete information package: Visual representation of components combined with operational, material, labor information shortens learning curves at start of production.

FUNCTIONS

• Enables direct entry of cost data for each variation of garment components (pockets, collars, plackets, etc.)
• Runs statistical analyses instantaneously.
• Pulls data from the Byte Database, built by MODSEW©, Piecework Apparel Computer (PAC), or Raw Material Inventory Control.
• Maintains material and trim cost and rate data automatically and constantly.
• Math modeling template allows storage of standard efficiencies by plant, style, efficiency factor, production run size, overhead.
• Burden, design requests, marketing overhead, or special customer requests.
• Builds specification sheets fast with easy look-up capability.
• Enables addition or modification of items in the database without changing programs.
• Tools for drawing sketches of parts, operation techniques workplace layouts, components, bills of materials, trim features styles.
• Integrates graphics and text on the screen - brings together pictures and detail specifications in one record.
• Sketch generation by mouse or digital capture via scanner.
• Sketches may be edited or scaled at any time.