AutoProbaho

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Garments ERP and automation built for how a factory really runs

Bangladesh's garments and textile sector runs on tight lead times, thin margins and buyers who want visibility at every stage. AutoProbaho builds ERP, production tracking and reporting systems for factories, buying houses and washing units — designed around merchandising, cutting-to-packing flow and the compliance evidence buyers ask for.

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Merchandising in Excel, production on paper, buyers on email

A typical factory runs its business on three disconnected layers. Merchandisers keep order sheets, cost sheets and T&A calendars in Excel; the floor records cutting, sewing and finishing on paper or whiteboards; and buyer communication lives in email and WhatsApp threads. Fabric and trims are received in the store, but nobody can say in real time how much of a style's fabric is still on the shelf versus already issued to cutting.

The gaps show up as late shipments, air-freight penalties, unexplained fabric shortages and last-minute scrambles before an audit. Management sees production numbers a day late, and profit per order is only known — if at all — weeks after the goods have shipped. Packaged ERPs rarely fit because garments logic (styles, colours, sizes, PO breakdowns, T&A milestones) is not how they think.

Who this is for

  • Woven, knit and sweater factories from a few lines to multi-unit groups
  • Buying houses and sourcing agents managing dozens of buyers and factories
  • Washing, dyeing, printing and embroidery units serving other factories
  • Spinning, weaving and knitting mills supplying fabric and yarn

Current pain points

  • Order status is scattered

    Where is style 4021 today — sampling, cutting, or packing? Answering that means calling three people.

  • Fabric and trims leak

    Store receives, cutting issues, but wastage, short receipt and returns are reconciled by hand, if ever.

  • Line output is known tomorrow

    Hourly production is written on boards; the daily production report reaches management the next morning.

  • Buyer audits mean panic

    Attendance, overtime, wage and safety records live in separate registers and are pulled together the night before.

  • Order profitability is a guess

    Costing is done pre-order; actual consumption, overtime and rework are rarely fed back into a real margin per PO.

What AutoProbaho builds

  1. Order and merchandising system

    Buyer, style, colour-size matrix, PO breakdown, cost sheets and T&A milestones with alerts before a date slips.

  2. Production tracking (cutting to packing)

    Cutting, input, sewing output per line and hour, finishing, packing and carton scanning — on tablets or barcode terminals.

  3. Fabric, trims and store management

    Roll-level fabric inventory, trims by PO, issue against style, shortage and wastage reconciliation.

  4. Compliance and HR records

    Attendance, overtime, leave, wages and safety records kept in one system so audit reports are a click, not a night.

  5. Management dashboards

    Line efficiency, on-time delivery, WIP by style and margin per order, updated during the shift.

Modules & capabilities

  • Buyer & style master

    Buyers, seasons, styles, colours, sizes, tech-pack attachments and approvals history.

  • PO & T&A calendar

    Order breakdown by destination and delivery date, time-and-action milestones, escalation before a slip.

  • Costing & consumption

    Pre-cost and actual cost per style, fabric consumption, CM calculation, comparison of planned versus actual.

  • Fabric & trims store

    Roll and lot tracking, GRN against PI, issue to cutting, leftover fabric, trims per PO.

  • Cutting & sewing tracking

    Lay and cut reports, bundle tickets, line-wise hourly output, DHU and rework counts, efficiency per line.

  • Finishing & packing

    Ironing, QC pass/fail, poly and carton packing lists, packing per buyer's ratio, shipment readiness.

  • Compliance & payroll inputs

    Attendance import, overtime hours, wage sheets, leave records and audit-ready exports.

  • Subcontract & washing

    Challan out to washing/embroidery, expected return, quality on receipt, bill reconciliation.

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Example workflows

Order to shipment

  1. 1Merchandiser enters the PO breakdown and T&A calendar
  2. 2Fabric and trims booking triggers purchase orders to suppliers
  3. 3Cutting plan is released against fabric received
  4. 4Line output is captured hourly and WIP is visible per style
  5. 5Packing list and shipment documents are generated from packed cartons

Fabric reconciliation

  1. 1Store receives fabric roll by roll against the PI
  2. 2Cutting requests issue against the style
  3. 3Actual cut quantity is posted with lay reports
  4. 4Leftover and wastage are recorded per style
  5. 5Consumption variance report goes to merchandising and costing

Compliance audit preparation

  1. 1Attendance and overtime are captured daily from the device
  2. 2Wage sheets are generated with overtime rules applied
  3. 3Leave, safety drill and training records are logged in the system
  4. 4Auditor request list is mapped to standard reports
  5. 5The compliance pack is exported per buyer format in minutes

Integrations

  • Attendance and biometric devices
  • Barcode / QR bundle and carton scanning
  • Accounting software (Tally, QuickBooks)
  • Buyer portals and PLM exports (Excel/CSV/API)
  • Email and WhatsApp for buyer and supplier updates
  • Google Workspace / Microsoft 365
  • Label and carton printers
  • n8n workflow automation

Implementation process

  1. 01

    Floor and office walk-through

    We map order flow from merchandising to shipment and see how store, cutting and lines record work today.

  2. 02

    Prioritise the first module

    Usually production tracking or fabric store — where the daily loss is most visible.

  3. 03

    Prototype with your styles

    Screens are reviewed with merchandisers, IE and store staff using real orders.

  4. 04

    Build, train, roll out per unit

    Line supervisors and store-keepers are trained in Bengali on tablets; one unit goes live first.

  5. 05

    Extend and support

    Add costing, compliance and dashboards; ongoing support through peak seasons.

Expected business outcomes

  • Order status in one screen

    Merchandisers and management see every style's stage without phone calls.

  • Fabric that adds up

    Received, issued, cut and leftover quantities reconcile per style.

  • Same-shift production visibility

    Line output and efficiency are visible during the shift, not the next morning.

  • Calm audits

    Compliance records are already in the system, exported in the buyer's format.

Security & ownership

  • Buyer audit readiness

    Attendance, wage and safety records with an audit trail that shows who changed what and when.

  • Data separation per buyer

    Tech packs, prices and PO data are visible only to the merchandising team responsible for that buyer.

  • Offline-tolerant capture

    Floor terminals keep working during load-shedding and sync when the connection returns.

Frequently asked questions

No. The ERP handles orders, production, store and HR; finance data can flow to your accounting tool through integration.

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