The stock stopped running out. The owner stopped going in every day.

S.P. Oswal Hosiery is a garment manufacturer run by Shailesh Jain, and the factory Stitchfloor is built alongside. Two things changed once it ran on Stitchfloor: production no longer stops while the factory waits for packaging or raw material, and its owner now runs the floor from home on most days of the week.

6 → 1-2Days a week the owner spends at the factory
0Stoppages waiting on packaging since reorder levels were set
PhoneWhere supervisors' entries reach the owner for approval

I used to be at the factory six days a week. Now I go once or twice, to pay the weekly wages and approve what needs me in person. Everything else comes to my phone, and I spend the rest of the week with my family.

Shailesh JainOwner, S.P. Oswal Hosiery

01Stock and packaging

Finding out about a shortage after it had already stopped the line.

Before Stitchfloor, the owners heard that a raw material was running out towards the very end, usually when someone on the floor reached for it and found the shelf empty. Reordering at that point meant waiting out the supplier's lead time, and more than once production halted until the restock arrived.

Packaging was the hardest to keep track of. The factory packs its garments with many kinds of boxes and tags, each used at its own pace, and counting them by hand across a busy floor was close to impossible.

What changed

Each material in Stitchfloor carries the reorder level the factory chose for it, packaging included. Every receipt and every issue to the floor moves its stock, and the Inventory desk flags anything that falls below its level while there is still time to buy. The reorder now goes out with the lead time still ahead of it, not behind it.

02Run from home

Six days a week on the floor, because that was the only place the numbers were.

The factory works six days a week, and so did its owner. Every decision waited for him to see the floor himself: what had gone out, what had come back, what to buy and what to pay.

Shailesh Jain wanted that time back. With weddings coming up in the family and a new home being built, he wanted to spend his days at home, without the factory slowing down while he did.

What changed

His supervisors now record the day's work in Stitchfloor as it happens. Whatever needs the owner arrives on his phone as an item to approve, with the figures already worked out, and he approves it from wherever he is. The visits that remain are the ones that need him there: paying the week's job-card wages, and the approvals he prefers to give in person.

03How it was set up

Tailored to the way this factory already worked.

S.P. Oswal Hosiery's workspace follows its own floor: its process steps and piece rates, the printers and job workers it sends lots to, the desk each person signs in to, and which entries come to the owner for approval. Every factory we onboard gets the same: Stitchfloor is tailored to it by our team, at no charge.

Inventory desk. Fabric by weight and colour, every packaging input with its own reorder level, and finished goods by design and size.
Production and Operations desks. Lots from cutting to packing, bundles out to workers and back, and lots sent to printers counted back in, in Hindi on a phone.
Admin desk, on the owner's phone. Approvals as they come up, the business overview, and the weekly payout held until he approves it.
Weekly job cards. Each worker's piece-rate earnings for the week, printed for pay day and locked once the payout is submitted.

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