How a Mumbai garment manufacturer cut inventory errors by 60%
The Background
The client is a leading apparel manufacturer based in Mumbai, MH, operating 2 factories and producing over 50,000 items of clothing monthly. They distribute finished goods to both domestic wholesale channels and international retailers.
The Challenge
Before moving to C36Space, the company tracked raw fabrics, dye lots, and subcontracted job work across manual spreadsheets. Stock discrepancies stood at 15%, causing production delays, fabric waste, and delayed shipments to key clients.
The Solution
By implementing the C36Space Manufacturing and Inventory modules, the factory team set up barcode verification pick-packs, size/color variant Bill of Materials (BOM), and direct job-work challan logs. Floor operators logged dye-lot approvals on tablet screens.
The Results
Within three months of deploying the system, raw material stock discrepancies dropped to under 1% (a 60% reduction in overall errors). Subcontracted fabric roll tracking became 100% automated, saving the operations team 12 hours of manual ledger checks every week.
"C36Space connected our dye house logs with cutting desk registers. Real-time yard tracking stopped material shrinkage overnight."
Manually listing raw dye lots on ledger spreadsheets led to 15% fabric roll shrinkage and severe assembly line stockouts.
Tablet-friendly barcode scans on the floor sync roll consumption to inventory and financial ledgers instantly.