Factory ERP for apparel units

Run the factory, not the spreadsheet

Styles, costing, cutting, bundle scanning, quality, payroll and export papers in one system. It runs on the Android phones your supervisors already carry, in their own language, and keeps scanning when the wifi drops.

Free for Lalaaji sellers and every operator on your floor.

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The problem

Most factories this size run on paper and WhatsApp

Paper works until a shade gets mixed into a lay, a trim order comes up 3,000 buttons short, or nobody knows where 40,000 pieces are.

You see output at the end of the day

Output is counted once, at the end of the shift. When a bottleneck shows in the numbers, the day is already lost.

Fabric goes missing

Without lot and shade tracking, the store issues fabric on trust and utilisation is a guess. Two shades in one garment get the carton rejected.

Quotes go out of date

A quote built in a spreadsheet is wrong as soon as the fabric price moves. Nobody re-costs it, because that means typing it all again.

Piece-rate pay takes a week

Counting chits by hand for 200 workers takes days. The operators who worked hardest have no record to prove it.

What it covers

Everything from quote to invoice

Styles and SKUs

Add a style with 5 colours and 7 sizes and you get 35 SKUs. Save a size run once and reuse it on the next style.

Costing and quotes

Cost a style from its BOM and SMV. Change a fabric price and the cost updates. An accepted quote becomes a sales order with no retyping.

BOM and MRP

Fabric use is held per size, so a size-heavy order gets enough cloth. MRP subtracts the stock in your store and drafts the purchase orders.

Store, rolls and lots

Every roll carries its dye lot, shade, width, GSM and length. New goods wait on QC hold. Cut orders allocate rolls by shade, so each garment is one shade.

Cutting and bundles

Plan the marker and the lay, then print a QR label for every bundle. The label holds style, colour, size, quantity, lay and lot.

Line tracking

Operators scan each bundle at each operation on a low-cost Android phone. You see WIP, efficiency and the bottleneck while you can still fix the day.

Quality

Track DHU and right-first-time by line, operation and operator. Final inspection uses the ISO 2859-1 Level II plan that buyers audit against.

Finishing and packing

Build pack plans and fill cartons by size ratio. The packing list and carton labels add up to the order quantity.

Planning and T&A

Each order gets a critical path in working days. It skips your weekly off and your holidays, and alerts you when a task slips.

Export documents

Print the commercial invoice, packing list, certificate of origin and LC set. Your bank's exchange-control form and the customs declaration use your country's names.

Money

Invoice from the order and age your receivables. Give your accountant a ledger CSV at month end.

Payroll

Piece-rate pay comes from the scans, with the skill multiplier and the minimum wage applied. Day rate and salary run in the same payroll.

Only on Lalaaji

Source from 20,000 factories inside your BOM

Factory ERP sits inside the Lalaaji marketplace. You find and order materials on the screen where you plan them.

Find on Lalaaji

Search the catalogue for the button, zipper, label, thread or fabric on a BOM line. Link the listing, and the seller goes into MRP and onto the purchase order.

Send a supply request

Send one request to the factories that make the item. Lalaaji matches them on the capability data it holds for every listed factory.

Order from another factory

Place a purchase order with a Lalaaji seller. A supplier chat opens with it, marked as supply so you keep it apart from buyer chats.

Send out washing or embroidery

Pick a subcontractor by capability and issue the material. Your stock drops when the goods leave, so on-hand shows only what is in your store.

A supply request for YKK zippers sent to matching Lalaaji factories

Built for the floor

Made for how your floor works

The operator's own language

Shop-floor screens show in the operator's language. Right-to-left scripts flip the whole screen, numbers included. Urdu ships today.

Keeps scanning offline

The phone stores each scan and sends it when the signal returns. A retry never counts a bundle twice.

Your holidays and power cuts

Planning counts working days around your weekly off, your holidays and a buffer you set for power cuts. A new factory starts with its country's calendar.

Your currency and the buyer's

Cost in the currency you pay wages in and quote in dollars or euros. A dated exchange rate keeps the books straight.

Labour law fields

Payroll holds the national ID, pension and social security fields your labour inspector asks for. Overtime uses your country's statutory rate.

One set of numbers for everyone

The owner and the line supervisor work from the same figures. Every user is free, so every operator can log in.

Inside the system

See the screens your team uses

The line board: efficiency, pieces today and work in progress per operation — **Line board** Efficiency, pieces and minutes for each line. The red bar marks the operation that holds the most work.

Quality: DHU by line, the worst operations and the most common defects — **Quality** DHU by line, the worst operations and the most common defects. AQL results sit below them.

Money: receivables, payables and invoices, aged — **Money** What buyers owe you and what you owe suppliers, aged. A payment reduces the figure on its own document.

The store: lots with material, shade, dye lot and free length — **Store** Each lot with its material, shade, dye lot and free length. New goods wait on QC hold until you release them.

The Lalaaji advantage

See the line while you can still save the day.

Factories in this region typically run at 40 to 55 percent efficiency and 5 to 8 DHU. To move either number, you measure at the bundle. Factory ERP does that on the phone your supervisor already carries.

Open my factory

🇺🇸 DTC apparel brands in the United States
🇸🇦 Retail groups and distributors in Saudi Arabia
🇳🇱 European wholesalers in the Netherlands and Germany
🇦🇪 E-commerce platforms and hypermarkets in the UAE
🇿🇦 Fashion chains in South Africa
🇬🇧 Independent fashion labels in the UK

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🇺🇸 DTC apparel brands in the United States·🇸🇦 Retail groups and distributors in Saudi Arabia·🇳🇱 European wholesalers in the Netherlands and Germany
🇦🇪 E-commerce platforms and hypermarkets in the UAE·🇿🇦 Fashion chains in South Africa·🇬🇧 Independent fashion labels in the UK