Apparel Manufacturing – A Dynamic Process Flow System

apparelApparel Manufacturing is different from other manufacturing industries because it involves a dynamic workflow. Each order received by any company follows a different workflow in the form of number of items to procure, number of approvals sought or number of production processes involved. Not only this, the procurement or approval processes may have their own complicated process flow based on the type of order, yarn, fabric or buyer.

Therefore, in order to manage an apparel manufacturing or sourcing organisation, we need a little more than static time and action calendars. Typically these time and action calendars are fixed and we need to choose a particular template for an order and then modify it manually to fit the actual order flow and schedules.

Some people choose a spreadsheet for managing their flow. While a spreadsheet offers great customization options but it still is a manual process and sharing the details between multiple people is not possible. The spreadsheet only works as a tracking device for a single person.

Prasora has an in-built mechanism for managing dynamic process flows. It automatically generates activities for any order based on number of fabrics, trims or processes involved. It can automatically follow key dates and process lead times for scheduling these activities. It smartly identifies dependencies between these activities too and hence can extrapolate any delays or any parallel dependencies.

Prasora also becomes customized to the organization structure and automatically allocate the activity to the right person. This means if you have more than one factories, Prasora will automatically allocate it to the right person in the right factory. Being dynamic also means that it will automatically reschedule/reallocate activities or modify them if required.

With all these information at hand, Prasora can then generate a variety or reports or documents as desired by the organization. These documents or reports are designed as per the specifications of the organization and can be made available on demand or scheduled basis.

Prasora does all this dynamically and therefore, it can match any organizational setup for any kind of organization. Therefore, the organization doesn’t need to change the way they work currently.