Guides for designing, making and shipping garments — and for running the business behind them.
Inspections A QC Inspection is the document that captures one act of checking — at a specific stage, on a specific Production Batch, by a specific inspector. It's the atomic unit of quality …
Quality Reports Nine tabular reports cover the quality side. Where dashboards are visual and meant for browsing, reports are list-shaped — better for filtering, exporting, and sharing. The n …
Quality Setup Before the team inspects anything, four masters need to be configured. Get them right and the rest of the section runs itself. Get them sloppy and your inspections produce data …
Final Quality Checks A final check is the last gate before finished garments leave for boxing and shipping. It's the moment the factory confirms — to itself and to the brand — that a batch as a wh …
In-line Quality Checks An in-line check is the kind of inspection that catches a problem before it scales. The first 20 garments off a stitching line look fine; the 21st has the wrong topstitch tens …
Installing the Quality App The Quality App is the interface your inspectors live in. It runs at /garmentflow/quality and is built for tablets and phones — the devices that actually go onto the floor. Get t …
The Quality Workspace Quality in GarmentFlow exists to do two things: catch problems while they're cheap to fix , and leave a data trail that surfaces patterns no single inspector could see alon …
… ert Configuration A QC Alert Configuration turns data into action. An inspection records that a defect rate crossed 8%; without alerts, that fact sits in the dashboard until someone happens to look. With an alert wired up, the production manager gets a notific …
… Templates An IQ Template is a named bundle of parameters at a defined quality rank. "Q1 Premium Knits." "Q3 Standard Wovens." "Q5 Basic Reorders." Each one represents a level of inspection rigor, and each Tech Pack picks one — that's how a Production Batch kno …
QC Overview The QC Overview is the headline dashboard for the quality function. It's the page a quality manager opens first thing in the morning and refers back to throughout the day. What it shows The overview surfaces the metrics that summarize quali …
… isregistration." The category tree is what every Defect entry on a QC Inspection references. The reason this is a structured tree, not free text: categorized defects roll up; free-text defects don't. "Skipped stitch on the third sleeve, line 4, Tuesday" is a u …
QC Parameters A QC Parameter is a named thing your inspectors check. "Chest measurement." "Color match to approved sample." "Zipper functionality." Each one is a master record carrying the details of how it's checked and what's acceptable. P …
Recording Defects and Readings Every QC Inspection has two output tables — Parameter Readings and Defects Found . They're the parts that turn an inspection from a status update into actual data. The dashboards, the alerts, the hea …
… Status and Risk Two dashboards focused on Production Units through a quality lens. QC Unit Status A per-unit view of current quality performance. For each Production Unit (internal or external), the dashboard shows: Recent inspection count — how much inspecti …
… ed app. Workspace — a module's landing page in Desk (e.g. Production, Quality), with shortcuts to its key documents and reports. DocType — the definition of a record type, like Sales Invoice or Production Order . When people say "a document," they mean one rec …
… ematic. QC Issue Radar A clustering view of defects across the recent inspection history. Each cluster is a recurring pattern — same defect category, same operation, same unit, same shift — and the dashboard surfaces the largest clusters first. Use it to: Find …
… receiving warehouse. The PO status moves toward Completed. What about quality inspection? If any items on the PR have Inspection Required (Purchase) set on the Item master, the app prompts for inspection before the PR can submit. The clerk records a basic insp …
… shows the items in the receiving warehouse, at the rate from the PO. Inspecting on receipt Some items get inspected at receipt — typically fabric (for quality, shrinkage, color matching) and specialty trims. ERPNext's Quality Inspection mechanism can be trigg …
… rack pieces through each operation as they move across the floor. 7 · Quality control Check it, then ship it. → Quality [ ] Inspections. Check work in-line and at the end against your standards. [ ] Dispatch. Send finished, passed goods out the door. 8 · Go li …
… chips naming the apps you personally can open. Operators, cutters and inspectors work from a phone: point a camera at the QR code and the site opens on the device. There is no install and no app store. The ten areas Area What it covers Company Company, System …
… e, shown as clickable stars. Options sets how many stars. Example: QC Inspection.quality_rating with Options 5 ; Interview Skill Test.star_rating . Good for a human judgement. Bad for anything that should be calculated — use Float or Percent for those. Dates a …
… s whose quantities don't reconcile with their batch. Production Batch Inspection Gaps — batches that moved on without the inspection they were supposed to have. Stock Movement Timeline — every movement against a batch in order, for when you need to reconstruct …
… ated from the Tech Pack but editable for the order. IQ Template — the inspection quality template that decides which inline and final inspections the resulting batches will be measured against. Commercial and design agree on this together. The moment you set t …
… closing quantity is what posts to finished goods. The IQ template and quality alerts key off these quantities. Inspections are scheduled against the planned units. The cost rollup divides by these quantities to give cost-per-garment at the end. A wrong Size Pl …
… the site immediately. Adding a field The most common request. Say the quality team needs a Customer PO Number on the Production Order. Open Customize Form and set Enter Form Type to Production Order . Scroll to the Fields table. Find the row you want your fiel …
… entFlow card sits at the top of the Production, Design, Logistics and Quality Control workspaces, showing how many steps are done and linking straight back into the wizard. You can stop and return at any time, and any step you would rather do by hand counts as …
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