AutoProbaho

Solution for RMG & textiles

Garments ERP for Bangladesh factories, from buyer PO to shipment

A garments factory lives and dies by dates: fabric in-house, cutting start, sewing output per line, finishing, inspection, ex-factory. Most factories track all of that across merchandiser Excel sheets, production boards and WhatsApp groups. AutoProbaho builds a garments ERP around your styles, buyers and lines — so the merchandiser, production manager, store and commercial team look at the same order file and the same dates.

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Every buyer order runs through five disconnected files

A typical order file starts as a buyer PO in email, becomes a merchandiser's costing sheet, splits into a fabric and trims booking, appears again on a paper cutting register, and ends as a packing list typed for the C&F agent. Each hand-off is a chance to lose a colour-size breakdown, book the wrong quantity of trims or miss a shipment date that was changed in a WhatsApp message nobody forwarded to the store.

Generic ERP packages rarely handle the garment specifics well: style-level BOMs with consumption and wastage, colour-size matrices, line-wise sewing output per hour, and buyer-specific compliance and inspection stages. Factories end up paying for a package and still running production on Excel. A garments ERP designed for how RMG actually operates removes that gap.

Who this is for

  • Woven, knit and sweater factories in Bangladesh — including EPZ and bonded units — with 300 to several thousand workers
  • Buying houses and sourcing agents who need order status without calling the factory every day
  • Group companies running multiple units that want consolidated order and WIP visibility
  • Factories that tried a generic ERP and went back to Excel for production tracking

Current pain points

  • Order status lives in the merchandiser's head

    When the merchandiser is on leave, nobody can say which styles are on time and which are at risk.

  • Fabric and trims are booked twice or too late

    Consumption is calculated per style in Excel; small changes in order quantity are not reflected in bookings.

  • Line output is known the next morning

    Hourly production is written on boards and typed later. Managers cannot react during the shift.

  • Shipment documents are re-typed

    Packing lists, invoices and commercial documents are prepared by hand from data that already exists elsewhere.

  • Compliance evidence is scattered

    Buyer audits ask for records that exist on paper across departments and take days to assemble.

What AutoProbaho builds

  1. A style- and order-centric ERP

    Every buyer PO becomes an order file with style, colour-size breakdown, dates and documents — the single record every department works from.

  2. BOM and consumption per style

    Fabric, trims and accessories with consumption, wastage percentage and supplier, driving bookings and material requirement automatically.

  3. Floor-level production capture

    Cutting, sewing (per line, per hour), finishing and packing recorded on tablets or simple screens with offline tolerance for load-shedding.

  4. Store, bond and shipment

    Fabric and trims store, bonded warehouse registers, packing lists and shipment tracking generated from the order file.

  5. Management dashboards

    Order status, WIP, efficiency, delivery risk and DHU visible daily to owners and production management — on mobile.

Modules & capabilities

  • Buyer & order management

    Buyer master, PO intake, style library, colour-size matrix, order confirmation, delivery schedule, amendments with history.

  • Merchandising & costing

    Pre-costing and final costing per style, CM calculation, BOM per style with consumption and wastage, sample tracking (proto, fit, PP, TOP).

  • Sourcing & procurement

    Fabric and trims booking, purchase orders, supplier follow-up, in-house dates, back-to-back LC references.

  • Store & inventory

    Fabric roll and lot tracking, trims by style, issue to cutting, leftover and stock-lot management, bonded warehouse registers.

  • Production & WIP

    Cutting plan and cut reports, bundle tracking, line-wise sewing output per hour, finishing and packing, WIP position by style and process.

  • Quality & compliance

    Inline and end-line QC, DHU, inspection results, buyer-specific checkpoints and document library for audits.

  • Shipment & commercial

    Packing list generation, ex-factory scheduling, shipment tracking, commercial invoice data, C&F handover.

  • Reporting & dashboards

    Daily production report, order status board, efficiency and delivery-risk indicators, scheduled WhatsApp/email reports.

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Example workflows

Order intake to material booking

  1. 1Merchandiser records the buyer PO with style, colours, sizes and delivery date
  2. 2BOM per style calculates fabric, trims and accessories with wastage
  3. 3Purchase team receives booking requirements and raises POs to suppliers
  4. 4Store confirms in-house receipt against the booking
  5. 5Order file shows material readiness against the cutting start date

Cutting to packing

  1. 1Cutting supervisor records lays and cut quantities per colour-size
  2. 2Bundles are issued to sewing lines and tracked
  3. 3Hourly output per line is entered on a floor tablet
  4. 4Finishing and packing update the order's shipped-vs-remaining position
  5. 5Production manager sees WIP by style, line and process on one board

Ex-factory and shipment

  1. 1Packing list is generated from cartons packed per colour-size
  2. 2Final inspection result is recorded against the order
  3. 3Commercial team prepares invoice and shipment documents from the order file
  4. 4Ex-factory date, forwarder and container details are logged
  5. 5Buyer or buying house receives a status update automatically

Integrations

  • Attendance and payroll systems (device import)
  • Accounting software (Tally, QuickBooks, local packages)
  • Buyer portals and PLM exports (Excel/CSV/API where available)
  • WhatsApp Business & email for status updates
  • Barcode/QR bundle tickets and label printers
  • Google Workspace / Microsoft 365
  • Bank/LC document tracking (manual or API)
  • n8n workflow automation

Implementation process

  1. 01

    Factory walk-through

    We follow one order from PO to shipment across merchandising, store, floor and commercial to see the real flow.

  2. 02

    Order-file design

    The style/order data model and colour-size matrix are agreed with merchandisers and production before code.

  3. 03

    Module rollout

    Usually order management and BOM first, then store and production capture, then shipment and dashboards.

  4. 04

    Floor training

    Line supervisors and store staff are trained on Bengali screens with real styles; paper runs in parallel until confidence is high.

  5. 05

    Go-live & support

    Staged by unit or floor, with hypercare during the first shipments and ongoing monitoring.

Expected business outcomes

  • One order file per PO

    Merchandising, store, production and commercial work from the same style, quantity and date information.

  • Earlier delivery-risk warnings

    Material readiness and WIP against planned dates show which styles need attention before they slip.

  • Less manual document work

    Booking sheets, cut reports, packing lists and status updates are generated, not re-typed.

  • Audit-ready records

    Production, QC and compliance evidence is stored against the order and can be produced when a buyer asks.

Security & ownership

  • Buyer data stays yours

    Deployed in your own cloud or on-premise environment; buyer prices and tech packs are not shared with third parties.

  • Role-based access

    Merchandisers see their buyers, line supervisors see their lines, commercial sees shipment data — with an audit trail on every change.

  • Backups & offline tolerance

    Automated encrypted backups; floor capture continues during power or internet interruptions and syncs later.

Frequently asked questions

It is built around styles, colour-size matrices, style-level BOMs, line-wise production and buyer-specific stages — things a general package usually handles poorly or only after heavy customisation.

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Book a free consultation. We will trace a single style from PO to ex-factory across your departments and show you where a garments ERP would remove the most manual work.

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