Divisions, Fits, and Types

These three masters are the small lookups that classify every Tech Pack. None of them is complicated on its own — but together they're how you slice your portfolio in reports, control your Tech Pack list, and keep your data tidy enough to be useful.

Looking for Brand? It does far more than classify — it pre-loads label designs, a brand's default raw materials, and measurement defaults onto every Tech Pack. It has its own page: Brand.

Division

Division is a one-field master (with an Is Active flag and a Sort Order) that classifies a Tech Pack by product line. Typical values: Menswear, Womenswear, Kids, Activewear, Outerwear, Accessories. Pick whatever taxonomy your design team actually thinks in.

Division shows up on the Tech Pack's Dashboard tab and is one of the main groupings in design reports. A clean Division list of six or eight values is far more useful than a sprawling list of twenty.

Fit

Fit is the same shape of master — a name, an Is Active flag, a Sort Order. Typical values: Slim, Regular, Relaxed, Oversized, Cropped.

Fit travels with the Tech Pack and explains, in one word, the silhouette the style is going for. It's also one of the fastest filters when a brand asks you "how many slim-fit styles do we have in the Spring range."

Type

Type (linked through Item Group in GarmentFlow) is the garment category — Tee, Polo, Hoodie, Pant, Dress, Jacket. It's how a Pattern knows what kind of garment it is, and how reports group Tech Packs by silhouette.

In most factories, Type is set up once when you first install GarmentFlow (the install seeds a sensible default tree) and grown into as new garment types appear.

A working example

You're setting up the master data for a factory that produces for two brands across menswear and womenswear.

• Brands: Acme Apparel, Beacon Goods. Two records.
• Divisions: Menswear, Womenswear, Activewear. Three records.
• Fits: Slim, Regular, Relaxed. Three records.
• Types: Tee, Polo, Hoodie, Joggers, Shorts, Jacket. Six records.

That's it. Fourteen records total, and every Tech Pack in GarmentFlow can now be classified, filtered, and reported on across four dimensions. You'll add more as new categories appear; you won't need to revisit this often.

What to do next

These three are quick to set up. The bigger investment is the Brand record — its raw material template and measurement defaults are what make every later Tech Pack faster. Otherwise, move on to Fabrics and composition.