Textile manufacturing
    Custom Software Development

    Textile production tracking: 6 WhatsApp chats replaced by one timeline

    A production tracking system that gives every order a digital timeline through Cutting, Stitching, Printing, Finishing and Dispatch, with wastage and vendor performance visible per stage.

    31%
    less wastage within 3 months
    64% to 89%
    on-time delivery
    4 weeks
    from kickoff to live
    The Problem

    What was breaking

    • Order status was spread across 6 separate WhatsApp chats, one per production stage, so answering 'where is this order' meant reading through all of them.
    • Nothing was recorded in a form that could be counted, so wastage and delays were argued about rather than measured.
    • On-time delivery was running at 64% and nobody could point to which stage was responsible.
    • Vendor performance was judged on impression, because per-vendor wastage was never separated out.
    The Work

    How we approached it

    01

    Gave every order one timeline

    Cutting, Stitching, Printing, Finishing and Dispatch became stages on a single digital timeline, so an order's position is one lookup instead of six chats.

    02

    Captured wastage at each stage

    Wastage is recorded against the stage and the vendor that produced it, which turns a vague total into something attributable.

    03

    Measured stage timing, not just completion

    Recording when work enters and leaves each stage exposed where time was actually being lost, rather than where people assumed.

    04

    Shipped in 4 weeks

    Scope was held to tracking the existing process rather than redesigning it, so the floor was using it inside a month.

    Results

    • Wastage fell 31% within 3 months of the system going live.
    • On-time delivery improved from 64% to 89%.
    • The timing data revealed one section sitting idle 2.3 hours every morning — a scheduling problem nobody had been able to prove.
    • Per-vendor wastage showed one vendor running 17% against another at 4%, which changed how work was allocated.
    • Built and live in 4 weeks.

    Built with

    React & TypeScript
    Node.js
    PostgreSQL
    Mobile-friendly shop floor UI

    Timeline

    4 weeks from kickoff to production use

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