Glossary

Garment manufacturing and ERP terms used across GarmentFlow. Grouped by area — skim the section you're working in, or search the page for a term.

Platform basics

These come from Frappe/ERPNext, the foundation GarmentFlow is built on.

Desk — the full back-office interface, used in a web browser. Where you set up masters, run reports and manage orders.
App / PWA — the mobile apps used on the floor (production, logistics, design). Lighter than Desk, built for one job at a time. PWA (Progressive Web App) means it runs in a browser but behaves like an installed app.
Workspace — a module's landing page in Desk (e.g. Production, Quality), with shortcuts to its key documents and reports.
DocType — the definition of a record type, like Sales Invoice or Production Order. When people say "a document," they mean one record of a DocType.
Master / master data — reference records you set up once and reuse everywhere: Items, Customers, Suppliers, Warehouses. The opposite of transactions.
Draft / Submitted / Cancelled — a document's state. Draft is editable. Submitting locks it and posts its effects (stock, accounting). Cancelling reverses those effects. Submitted documents can't be edited — you amend or cancel.
Ledger — an append-only record of movements. The Stock Ledger logs every stock change; the General Ledger logs every accounting entry. They are the source of truth behind every report.

The style and its specification, before anything is made.

Tech Pack — the complete specification of a style: materials, measurements, colors, construction and costing. The single source of truth handed from design to production.
Style — a designed garment (e.g. a specific polo shirt). One style has many variants.
Variant — a specific size/color combination of a style — what actually gets made, counted and sold.
BOM (Bill of Materials) — the list of materials and quantities needed to make one unit of a style. Drives costing and purchasing.
Pattern — the set of shaped pieces that, cut from fabric and sewn, form the garment.
Point of Measurement (POM) — a defined place on a garment that's measured (e.g. chest width, sleeve length), used in size charts and quality checks.
Grading — scaling a base pattern up and down to create the full size range.
Size Chart — the table of measurements per size for a style or category.
Composition — the fiber make-up of a fabric (e.g. 95% cotton, 5% elastane). Drives washcare and, in some setups, sustainability data.
Washcare Symbol — the standard laundering icons (wash, bleach, dry, iron) printed on labels.
Brand / Division / Fit / Type — classification masters that organize styles for filtering, defaults and reporting.
Sample — a physical prototype made to validate fit and construction before bulk production.

Turning rolls of fabric into stacks of cut pieces.

Marker — the layout of all pattern pieces arranged on the fabric width to waste as little as possible. The Marker Order plans this. (Spanish: Tizado.)
Ply — one single layer of fabric in the spread. More plies cut at once = more garments per cut, at no extra marker cost.
Spread / Lay — the stack of fabric plies laid out for cutting.
Ratio — the mix of sizes within one marker (e.g. S:M:L:XL = 1:2:2:1). Changing the ratio is what costs marker effort, not adding plies.
Cutting Order — the instruction to cut a given marker across a number of plies, producing bundles of cut pieces for production.

Making the garment, tracked from plan to finished piece.

Production Order — the top-level instruction to manufacture a quantity of a style. Planned into batches.
Production Batch — a manageable chunk of a Production Order that moves through the floor together; carries its own operations, sizes, materials and cost.
Operation — a single step in making the garment (e.g. sew side seam, attach collar). A batch passes through a sequence of operations.
Assembly Operation — a master defining a reusable operation and the skill it needs.
Batch Card — the daily execution document that records pieces moving through each operation — the floor's working ticket.
Operation Ledger — the append-only log of work recorded against operations: who did how much, when. The basis for progress and payroll-by-piece.
Production Unit — a place where work happens: an internal line, a section, or an external unit (subcontractor).
WIP (Work In Progress) — goods that are partway through production — issued from stores but not yet finished.

Buying, moving and reconciling materials and goods.

Material Request — an internal request for materials (e.g. fabric a batch needs), the trigger for procurement or transfer.
RFQ (Request for Quotation) — asking suppliers to quote on materials before you commit to a Purchase Order.
Purchase Order (PO) — the committed order to a supplier.
Purchase Receipt — the document recording goods physically received, which updates stock.
Stock Entry / Material Transfer — moving stock between warehouses (e.g. store → cutting WIP) without buying or selling.
Stock Reservation — earmarking specific stock for a Production Batch so it can't be consumed by something else.
Stock Balance — current quantity and value on hand, by item and warehouse. Stock Ledger is the movement history behind it.
External Unit — an outside subcontractor that performs work (cutting, sewing, washing). Goods are dispatched to it and recovered back.
CMT (Cut, Make, Trim) — the subcontracting model where an external unit cuts, sews and finishes garments from materials you supply.
Supplier Portal — a web area where suppliers and external units see their orders and confirm readiness, without a Desk login.

Checking work against standards and acting on defects.

In-line Quality Check (IQ) — inspection during production, at a stage, to catch defects early.
Final Quality Check (FQ) — inspection of finished goods before they're dispatched.
QC Parameter — a specific thing being checked (a measurement, a property), with its acceptable values.
IQ Template — a reusable set of parameters and stages applied to inspections, so checks are consistent.
Defect / Defect Category — a recorded fault and its classification, used to spot patterns by operator, supplier or style.
AQL (Acceptable Quality Limit) — the standard sampling rule that sets how many units to inspect and how many defects are tolerable before a lot is rejected.
NCR (Non-Conformance Report) — a formal record of a quality failure and the corrective/preventive actions taken.
5-Why / Root Cause — a method of asking "why" repeatedly to find the underlying cause of a defect, not just the symptom.

The accounting concepts you meet in ERP Setup.

Chart of Accounts (CoA) — the tree of accounts that organizes all financial activity (assets, liabilities, income, expenses, equity).
Fiscal Year — your statutory accounting year; every entry is stamped to one.
Cost Center — a unit (department, line, branch) you track costs and profit against.
Tax Template — a saved set of tax rules that auto-applies the right tax lines to invoices.
Payment Terms — the agreed schedule for paying or being paid (e.g. Net 30, 50% advance), which sets due dates.
Valuation method (FIFO / Moving Average) — how the value of consumed stock is calculated, which drives your cost of goods sold.