Textile: From Fabric Roll to Finished Garment, Without Losing the Thread

Bills of materials, batch production, and wholesale orders — the three things textile ERPs get wrong.

Confection businesses sit between two worlds: manufacturing (cutting, sewing, assembling raw materials into garments) and retail/wholesale (selling finished pieces in bulk to boutiques or individual clients). Most software picks one side and handles the other poorly.

The daily friction

• Nobody knows exactly how much fabric and thread a batch of 50 djellabas actually consumed
• Wholesale clients want volume pricing that's hard to track in a spreadsheet
• Raw material purchases (fabric, thread, buttons) aren't linked to what's being produced
• Production planning is done from memory, not from real stock levels

What Odoo brings

Technova's Textile package sets up Manufacturing with bills of materials per garment: a djellaba "recipe" of fabric, thread and buttons, consumed automatically every time a production order is completed. Purchases of raw materials and sales of finished articles both flow through the same stock ledger, so you always know what you can produce right now — not what you hope you can.