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Inventory control in Apparel and Textile Warehouse

Inventory control is a crucial part of every industry.  Inventory control of Apparel, textile, and fashion industry must keep inventory in their warehouse/store. Inventory control is called stock management which saves cost, time and increases the work efficiency of your warehouse.

Goods in warehouse in Garments

Inventory control can be defined as a list of in housed, unsold, and unshipped goods in an organized way at the same time; balance quantity, booking quantity, shipping quantity everything I mean the real status of stock/selling/shipping/moving goods.

Inventory control in Apparel and Textile Warehouse

Inventory control in Apparel and Textile Warehouse

Proper inventory control in the apparel and textile warehouse will ensure market competitiveness in the international market.

Goods in the warehouse can be placed in three ways

  1. Raw material, to be inputted for products bought from another company
  2. Work in progress, production is running
  3. Finished goods, waiting for delivery to buyer’s destination

 Inventory of Raw materials

Inventory in Garments Industry

Maintaining Database for Inventory in Textile and Garments Industry

For controlling your inventory, you have to maintain a proper database and recording system so that you can monitor the inventory status continuously. Two common practices of maintaining inventory report you may find in the apparel industry:

  • Excel database
  • ERP (Enterprise resource planning) software.

For small organizations buying ERP software is sometimes creates extra burden so my suggestion for them is to use an excel template which is totally from and available to download. We have developed an excel (inventory management) template for your convenience. Here is some free excel template ready to download.

  • Fabric – Inventory Control (excel 148 kb)
  • ACCESSORIES INVENTORY REPORT-2 (excel 42 kb)
  • Inventory Report (Finishing Trims) (excel 1145 kb)

Benefits of Inventory

  1. Information transparency
  2. Save cost
  3. Increase efficiency
  4. Save time
  5. Data Management
  6. The beneficiary for all other departments
  7. Minimize Goods receive and delivery time
  8. Increase supply chain performance
  9. Knowing stock information at any time
  10. Organize store/warehouse

Factors of inventory report for Garments and Textile store/Warehouse

  1. Mention buyer name
  2. PO and style name
  3. Production name
  4. Product description
  5. Proforma invoice (PI) number of received goods
  6. Challan No
  7. Booking quantity
  8. Received quantity
  9. Balance quantity
  10. Delivery quantity
  11. Quality inspection status
  12. Due product
  13. Product moving log
  14. Shipment date
  15. Rejected quantity
  16. Store rack number

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  1. Kratika says

    December 1, 2018 at 12:45 am

    It is very helpful topic

  2. Jahanvi says

    March 30, 2019 at 4:03 pm

    for businesses that are looking to upgrade from Excel and adopt a more secure cloud and mobile-powered solution for Inventory Management in the textile industry, you can also explore simple to you ERP software company that is simple to use and provides great flexibility similar to ERP systems such as SAP and Ms. Dynamics.

    We have used it for our engineering business and found it to be very powerful and useful.

  3. Abasiama John says

    April 29, 2019 at 5:22 am

    such a great business i’d like to know more

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