Production Time & Action (T&A) Tracking System
A Time & Action system that tracks every style from order receipt through sampling, yarn, fabric and production — with target dates that calculate themselves and department views that show each team only what they need.
Client: A garment manufacturer in Tirupur
Production was tracked in manual Excel sheets with no automated date calculation, no overdue alerts, and no shared visibility across departments — so deadlines slipped and merchandisers drowned in orders.
How it worked before: Styles flow from OCN receipt → sampling → yarn → fabric → production milestones, each owned by a different department on its own timeline.
We designed a T&A model that auto-calculates target dates from offset logic agreed with the client, gave each department a focused view, and built Excel exports for buyer reporting. Milestone gating was kept flexible at the client's request — built around how they actually work.
- T&A milestone engine with offset-based target dates
- Department-scoped views (each team sees only its work)
- Excel export system for buyer reporting
- Built on Laravel + MySQL, deployed on cloud
- Live and running in production
- Manual Excel tracking replaced with a single source of truth
- Target dates and overdue tracking calculated automatically
- Clean enough for factory-floor staff to use daily
Flexibility beat rigidity: removing strict milestone gates at the client's request made the system fit real factory life — and adoption followed.