The WIP spreadsheet
Progress lives on the order, posted by the people doing the work, not reconstructed on a Friday from six emails.
Production management
See the whole floor without being on it.
Raise production orders against real demand, then watch work move stage by stage, factory by factory. Materials draw down as the order is placed, ex-factory dates update themselves as suppliers post progress, and anything slipping is flagged before it becomes a late delivery.
Where it sits
One chain, this link.
Every flow in Weavwork is a view of the same connected record — so nothing here is a module bolted on beside the others.
- StyleSKU tree · BOM
- Samplerounds · specs
- Ordergrid · price list
- Production managementplan · WIP · QC
- Shipmentvessel · ETA
- Warehousepick · pack · count
- Accountingbook value · WIP · finished goods
Raising the run committed the materials; making it moves them. Book value shifts out of raw materials into work in progress and then into finished goods as the floor posts each stage — so the balance sheet follows the floor rather than waiting for month end.
How it runs
Step by step, on one record.
- 01Raise against demand
A production order is built from confirmed sales orders and the replenishment the agent recommends — never from a guess. The quantities by colour and size come straight from the demand behind them.
- 02Draw down the materials
Placing the order consumes the fabric and trims it needs from your bill of materials. Weavwork forecasts to the unit where a run hits empty, so you order cloth before the cutting table does.
- 03Watch it move
Cutting, sewing, finishing, QC, packed — the factory posts progress and photos from their portal, or the agent reads it out of their email. The order says what the floor says.
- 04Ex-factory that moves
Dates recalculate as progress posts. A run falling behind is flagged while there is still time to do something about it, and the customer-facing date updates with it.
A week with it
What it looks like on a Wednesday.
Three days from one week, on the sample data that runs through this site.
Monday
PO-2041 is raised
Two thousand Pique Polos against three confirmed sales orders and the agent’s replenishment. Placing it draws 3,400 m of navy pique from stock; the shortfall at the mill is on the order before anyone cuts.
Wednesday
The floor posts
Bao Loc posts 1,640 sewn and finishing started from the supplier portal. QC begins on the AQL sample — 125 pieces for a lot of 2,000 — and the first 48 are inspected with one minor.
Friday
Ex-factory moves in
The factory pulls ex-factory from 22 to 18 September. The three sales orders behind the run update their dates; nobody forwards anything.
What it removes
The jobs that stop existing.
The surprise late delivery
Slippage shows the day it starts. You hear about it from the system, not from the customer.
Fabric you thought you had
Every order draws down the cloth it will consume, so the shortfall appears at planning time — not at cutting.
Who works in it
The same record, three seats.
Production planning
Every factory’s WIP on one screen, materials drawn down as orders are placed, and the run that will hit empty forecast to the unit.
The factory
A production order that carries the tech pack and the QC plan, and a portal to post progress and photos from the floor.
Sales
Ex-factory dates that move with the floor, so the date you give the customer is the date the factory is working to.
Questions
The ones we get asked.
Does it cover our own factories as well as external ones?
Yes. Your own floors, lines and WIP sit on the same record as an external factory’s production order — you choose which parts of the flow each one uses.
How is a unit costed?
Fabric, trims, labour and decoration roll up from the bill of materials into a landed cost and a margin per unit, per style, and update as the real invoices land.
Can one production order span two factories?
A style can be split across factories, each with its own order, progress and ex-factory date, rolled up against the same demand.
What does the factory need to use?
A browser. The supplier portal works on a phone on the floor, and factories that prefer email are read by the agent.
Keep going
Two more flows, and the whole product.
See it on your own range.
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