24 live orders for Textile Group
Fabric in
1
Cutting
4
Sewing
3
Finishing
7
Inspection
5
Packed
2
At sea
2
Delivered
0
Today The buyer emails the merchandiser, who asks the factory, who checks a spreadsheet.Behind the scenesThe supplier's own records feed it: the ERP for orders and materials, counters on the sewing lines, the inspection app, and the freight forwarder's shipment feed. Each order's stage updates as those records change, with no one typing a status.What is automatedEvery status update the buyer used to chase by email.What it achievesThe factory sees trouble first and decides what to tell the buyer. The buyer gets a clean, honest picture without chasing anyone.Could go furtherGive each buyer their own login, showing only their orders.
PO 7781
Hooded sweatshirt, 10,000 pieces, Factory G, Gazipur
Line 4, hourly output, 30 Sep
Read from a photo: 480 pieces a day
Forecast
16 Oct
2 days after it should leave the factory
Flagged 13 days before the ship date, while there is still time to act.Behind the scenesPieces sewn per hour on each line are compared with the plan. The remaining pieces at today's rate, plus finishing, inspection and packing, give the day the order can leave. A model trained on past orders learns how often late starts recover on their own, so only real risks are raised.AssumptionInvented rates. Working days are Monday to Saturday; finishing, inspection and packing take three days.What it achievesProblems are seen two weeks out instead of on the day the truck is due.
Three ways to fix PO 7781, with what each changesBehind the scenesEach option is run through the same forecast: extra hours on the line, a split shipment, or air freight for the balance. The effect on the ship date and the cost come from the plan and past rates.What is automatedWorking out the options and drafting the note to the buyer. The merchandiser chooses and sends.Could go furtherSuggest moving the order to another line with spare capacity, from the same data.
Note to Textile Group, drafted
PO 7781 is on track to leave on 13 Oct after Saturday overtime on Line 4. No change to your store date.
LLine 4 supervisorWhatsApp
Can Line 4 run Saturday for PO 7781?11:42
Yes. 24 operators confirmed, 08:00 to 17:00.11:55
Note to Textile Group, drafted
We propose shipping 8,000 pieces of PO 7781 on time and 2,000 a week later. Please confirm.
Note to Textile Group, drafted
We will air freight the balance of PO 7781 to keep your store date.
Which Textile Group orders will miss their ship date, and why?
TOrder Tower is checking 24 orders
T3 orders, each with its reason
What feeds it
The pipelineBehind the scenesEach source is collected as it lands, read, cleaned and joined on the order number into one governed record. The forecast, the answers, the alerts and the buyer's view all read from that one record, so they always agree.What it achievesNew uses are days of work, not a new project, because the hard part, one trusted record, is already done.Could go furtherShipment tracking, supplier scorecards and capacity planning sit on the same record.
One record
PO 7781
Ask in plain English
Which lines are behind plan this week?
Line 4, at 62% of plan since Tuesday.
Insights found for you
Share of plan sewn this week, by line. Line 4 is the outlier (modelled).
Automations
Scheduled snapshots
Morning snapshot07:00
At your fingertips
Monday
07:00
Textile Group portalnow
PO 7781 ships 13 Oct0%
on time in full, up from 81% (modelled)
0 days
average warning before a late order
0%
fewer status emails between buyer and factory (modelled)
£0
air freight avoided (modelled)
Late orders cost a factory penalties, chargebacks, air freight and repeat business. The tower cuts all four.
Across 186 orders in the season, every buyer sees the same picture as the factory, and the factory sees trouble first.AssumptionInvented supplier, buyer, orders and vessels. Modelled: on-time rates, warning days, fewer emails and air freight avoided.What it achievesBuyers stay because they can see; the factory wins repeat orders on trust as well as price.
Monday
07:00
Textile Group portalnow
PO 7781 ships 13 OctUpdated by Factory GOrder Towernow
Morning snapshot3 orders at risk, fixes draftedLive orders
24 orders, 3 forecast late
Interactive demo
Watch it run in 147 seconds, or click through at your own pace. The i buttons show what happens behind the scenes.
That was one season
9 days of warning before an order runs late
Modelled on an invented supplier. Your own orders and line data would give the real figure.
What we would build with you
A live view of every order from the records you already keep, inside your own buyer portal, shared with one buyer first.
Your order book, line output as you record it today, and your forwarder's bookings.
Forecasts and fix options, more buyers, and questions in plain English.