Eight colours, six sizes, one product record

The size and colour matrix

Garment styles: colour and size are attributes, not forty-eight products

A shirt in eight colours and six sizes is one product with two attributes. Not a product code per combination, maintained by hand and reconciled at season end.

Defined once, used everywhere

Colour and size are set up as attributes with their own value lists, then attached to the products that use them. A new colourway is a new value, not a new item master.

Fixed or per delivery

An attribute can belong to the product, or vary with each receipt. Composition belongs to the fabric. The dye lot arrives with the roll.

Stock resolves to the combination

Availability, reservation and costing all read the exact combination. Navy in medium is a stock position, not a spreadsheet lookup.

Production against an order

The work order knows which order line it is for

Apparel is made against a buyer's order more often than against a forecast. When production is not linked to the order that caused it, margin is worked out per month instead of per style.

The link is held on the record

A production order carries the sales order line it was raised for, and how it was raised. Cost lands on the order, and the margin on that buyer's programme is a fact rather than an allocation.

The explosion goes all the way down

Planned orders carry their level, their parent and their root. Yarn to knitting to dyeing to cutting to finishing stays connected as one chain rather than five unrelated requirements.

Short shipments are visible early

Requirements are planned against the delivery date on the order line. A late trim shows up while there is still time to chase it.

Lot control

Dye lots that stay separate in the costing

Two rolls of the same shade bought eight weeks apart are not interchangeable, and they did not cost the same. Both facts matter, and most systems keep neither.

Lot tracking in Onfinity splits the stock and the costing layer together. Each lot holds its own quantity and its own value. A run finished from expensive fabric is costed from that fabric, not from an average that flatters it. When a shade fails inspection, the affected lot is traceable through the goods receipts and the production orders that consumed it.

Fashion retail

From the factory to the store, on the same size and colour matrix.

The style you make is the style you sell. At the counter the barcode carries the size, the colour and the fabric. A return points at the line it came from. A custom order at the counter becomes a work order in the factory.