Most of the loss happens before the first stitch.
Fabric is 60 to 70 per cent of what a garment costs, and the usual measure of waste starts counting after it has already been cut.
So this starts at the roll. Fabric bought, fabric laid, pieces cut, pieces packed — one balance sheet, and at every step the same two questions: how much is missing, and did anybody write down why.
Before the cut: the fabric
After the cut: the floor
Every cut ticket, and whether it closes
Drive it yourself
Put your own floor sheet in. Every stage reports what it received, what it passed on, and what it wrote off with a reason. The cut number is what everything is measured against; the packed number is what turned up at the table. Nothing here is stored.
Or start from one of these:
And the one where nothing is wrong
Fabric is dyed in batches, and two batches of the same colour are not the same colour. Every piece below is sound, which is exactly why a system built around counting defects cannot see this at all.
What this cannot tell you
What the number is, and what it is not
Plain text version of this page — the version a machine reads, carrying the same claim and the same numbers. · How this handles your data — where it lives, what we keep, and the independent security reviews we have not had.