CMT and subcontract tracking
What each workshop got, returned and billed
Cut parts to a CMT unit, panels out for embroidery, garments out for washing. Every dispatch and every recovery is a document against the same order, matched three ways per operation — so the balance at an external unit is a number you can read rather than a conversation you have to have.
$179 Studio · $450 Factory M · $900 Factory L — prices on the page.
Workshop · Taller Norteexample
- Sent
- 240 pcs
- Returned
- 236 pcs
- Invoiced
- 240 pcs
- To query
- 4 pcs
Dispatch · Taller Norteexample
- Batch
- CH2L
- Operation
- Sewing
- Cut parts sent
- 240 pcs
- Rate per piece
- $0.55
- Committed
- $132.00
01 · Dispatch
Send work without losing sight of it
A dispatch names the order, the batch, the operation and the quantity. The bundles that left are still on the same production order they were cut for, so "where is that order" has one answer whether the work is in your factory or at a workshop.
02 · Ownership
Your stock, their workshop
An external unit is a warehouse like any other. What you sent is still your inventory and still on your balance sheet until it comes back or is consumed — which is also what your auditor expects to see.
03 · Rates
Priced per operation, per piece
Each operation carries the rate you agreed with that unit. What comes back is costed as it arrives, so the labour in a subcontracted style is as real as the labour in one you sewed yourself.
04 · Reconciliation
Costed in real time, not at season end
Dispatched, recovered, invoiced — each invoice links straight to its PO, so the cost of a subcontracted operation lands the moment it's billed. What used to be a manual compile at the end of every season, taking a couple of days, is now a number that's already there.
05 · The other side
A screen for the unit doing the work
The workshop sees what it has been sent and confirms what it is returning, so the numbers arrive on their own instead of over WhatsApp on a Friday afternoon.
One operation, or all of them.
Washing, embroidery, finishing or the whole garment, at whatever volume you run. GarmentFlow follows every piece at every external unit and costs it as it moves, not in a season-end compile.
- Cutting
- Embroidery (Highlighted: sent to an external unit)
- Sewing
- Washing (Highlighted: sent to an external unit)
- Finishing
- Packing
Connected to the rest
Subcontracting is production that happens somewhere else. The work comes from the plan, the pieces come out of inventory, the operations return into costing, and every movement is part of the same audit trail as work done in your own factory.
Questions
We send cut parts out and get garments back. Does that work?
Yes — a dispatch carries the operations the unit is doing, and what returns is booked against the same batch it left as.
Who owns the stock while it is out?
You do. An external unit is a warehouse, so the goods stay in your inventory and your valuation until they are consumed or returned.
Does the workshop need a licence?
No. The supplier portal is part of your instance — they sign in to their own work, and see nothing else.
Pricing
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Subcontracting comes with Studio and every plan above it.
- Design Design Teams $0 free, for good Not included
- Studio ≤30 Operators $179 a month
- Factory M 31–100 Operators $450 a month
- Factory L 101–300 Operators $900 a month
- Factory XL 301–700 Operators $1,800 a month
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