Materials Tracking

Two dashboards focused on materials — what's planned, what's been issued, what's been consumed, and whether they tie out.

Production Materials

A per-Order or per-Batch view of material status. For each material on a Production Order or Batch, the dashboard shows:

Planned — the BOM quantity × order/batch size.
Issued — how much has actually left the Raw Material warehouse.
Consumed — how much has been recorded against operations through the Operation Ledger.
On-hand WIP — Issued minus Consumed minus what's left the WIP warehouse as finished goods.

Use it to:

Confirm readiness before releasing an order. Are all the materials in stock?
Track in-flight orders. Is consumption running ahead or behind plan?
Spot shortages early. If a material is under-issued, the next operation may starve.

Material Reconciliation

The cousin of Production Materials, but focused on variances. For a closed Batch or Order, the dashboard shows the gap between planned consumption and actual consumption, broken down per material.

Variances are normal — fabric shrinkage varies, defects happen, spreaders over-spread. The dashboard surfaces them so you can:

Spot patterns. If every batch of a style is 5% over plan on fabric, the Tech Pack's consumption number is wrong and needs correcting.
Spot anomalies. A single batch wildly over plan deserves investigation — was material mis-issued, did the cut go wrong, was scrap mis-recorded?
Validate the Spreader Compensation Factor. If reconciliation shows consistent under-consumption, your factor is too generous. If consistent over-consumption, too tight.

The Material Reconciliation dashboard is one of the highest-leverage analytical tools in GarmentFlow. It pays for the entire setup overhead the first time it catches a recurring 8% fabric over-consumption that's been silently eating margin for months.

Image: The Material Reconciliation dashboard showing a closed Production Order with five materials, planned vs actual columns, and variance percentages flagged in colour.