Need help/custom solution for Curtain Manufacturing

[simple]

An interior design company produces customized curtains on order. Every time the order is based on multiple inputs:

1. Window measurements
2. Type of fabric
3. Stitching cost
4. Extras like rings and ribbons
5. Other specific requests from customers.

This is a multi-step process where fabric is first chosen, measurements recorded, then it is sent to the tailor, cut and stitched, additional stuff added, invoiced, and then delivered to the customers. Plus a customer can order other items on the same order which have to be shown on the same invoice.

Is anyone here handling such an operation? How are you doing it?

[Pawan]

You can try to use ERPNext BOM with operations and see if it meets your requirements. If you need ideas to customize something for garment manufacturing, you can go through this link ideas.

[JayRam]

@simple

Window measurements

My guess is that this affects the quantities of the fabric and the accessories. Plus it perhaps affects the stitching cost.

@simple

Type of fabric

Set this up as Items on ERPNext

@simple

Stitching cost

Addressed later.

@simple

Extras like rings and ribbons

Either setup as Items on ERPNext or you add Extras as a Set

@simple

Other specific requests from customers.

Again can be setup as Items if it’s appropriate to do that.

With a little bit of scripting/customisation, you should be able to covert a design/measurement into a Bill of Quantity or a BOM.

It’s not easy to do that. But it’s too hard either.

Takes time and effort.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

Jay

[simple]

I greatly appreciate your generous, detailed responses Jay Ram

I’ll give this a good read to see how I can utilize it in the system.

[abidomar]

We created a custom module that acts as kind of a product configurator for the end-user, which then generates the required items with BOM. See this for how we did it:

Custom Textile Printing using vanilla Manufacturing Module

The biggest challenge we found in implementing ERPNext for our textile printing operation is how to manage BOM’s when every produced item is unique. Our goal was to keep our workflow as vanilla as possible, with just enough customization to have a user-friendly workflow. I believe we have succeeded in this. This post is practice sharing, and seeing how others have solved the production workflow. Item Grouping for product and process management Starting with a bird’s eye view, we use various gr…

[atulyaraaj]

Link is not valid now.

[alphaomegaphi]

Which ideas exactly? The link is dead and looking at the archived version it just show like three small high level paragraphs talking about what seemed to be some type of development done for garment-like ERP system.

Would appreciate if you can share the ideas here as the topic for garmet/clothing/fabric ERP is very relevant.

[Pawan]

The link is updated now. You may find it useful.