Garment Manufacturing Settings

Garment Manufacturing Settings is a single-doc that holds the production-side defaults the rest of GarmentFlow reads from. It's also referenced from Getting Started; this page covers the fields a production user cares about most.

Getting there

Awesome bar: Cmd/Ctrl + K → type garment manufacturing settings → pick the singleton.

Click path: Desk → GarmentFlow → Production → Setup card → Garment Manufacturing Settings.

Warehouse Settings

Two fields, both critical:

• Default Raw Material Warehouse — where fabric and trims are pulled from when materials are issued to a Production Order. Override per Order on the Warehouse Configuration block.
• Default WIP Warehouse — where stock sits while batches are in flight. Materials land here on issuance; finished goods leave from here.

You need both pointed at real, leaf-level warehouses before any Batch can post material movements. See Warehouses for setting up the warehouse tree itself.

Cut Settings

The cutting room parameters:

• Cutting Operation — which operation in the Assembly Operation list represents cutting. Used by Cutting Orders to know where to post their Handoff entries.
• Marker Name Template — the naming pattern for auto-generated Marker Orders. Use a format your cutting team can read at a glance.
• Max Lay Limit (plies) — the maximum number of fabric plies that can be spread in a single lay. The Marker Order planner flags lays that exceed this.
• Max Lay Overflow % — how much over the limit you're willing to tolerate before GarmentFlow rejects rather than warns.
• Max Table Length — the longest marker the room can physically spread. Markers exceeding this get flagged.
• Default Item UOM — the unit of measure used when items are auto-created during Batch flows.

These come from your factory floor. Set them once with your cutting lead; revisit when the floor changes (new tables, new SOPs).

Labor

The numbers behind every internal cost rollup:

• Cost Per Minute — the per-minute labor cost used to value internal operations. Multiply by SMV × actual minutes to get the cost a Batch carries for that operation.
• Default Minutes per Day — the working minutes available per operator per day. Used by capacity calculations and the simulator.

Set this with finance. If your floor has dramatically different cost-per-minute by skill or unit, you can override per Production Unit, but the default here is what everything falls back to.

Below these, two buttons: Insert Default Skills (seeds the standard skill list) and Create Custom Skill (for factory-specific skills). Skills get attached to Assembly Operations and matched against operator profiles.

Spreader Settings

One field that punches above its weight:

• Spreader Compensation Factor — defaults to 1.03 (i.e., 3% extra). When GarmentFlow calculates fabric consumption for a Cutting Order, it multiplies the planned length by this factor to account for the extra fabric a spreader uses for catch-up, defects, and end-of-roll wastage.

If your spreaders consistently use more or less than this, adjust. A wrong factor means consistent over- or under-issuance of fabric, which shows up as a Material Reconciliation variance.

Raw Material Settings

• Raw Material Parent Group — the Item Group that filters which items appear in raw-material pickers across the app. Defaults to "Raw Material" after install.
• Raw Material Operations child table — links operations to the kinds of raw materials they consume. Used by the auto-consumption (Recipe Based) flow in the Operation Ledger.

What to do next

Move on to Production Units — every operation needs at least one Unit to run on.