Page 12 of 24. Earlier articles from the Uphance blog.
PLM Garment costing and pricing for apparel brands requires disciplined build-up from BOM through landed cost to channel pricing. This guide covers the four pricing models, gross margin targets by channel, and the operational practices that distinguish accurate from directional costing for brands between $5M and $100M.
ERP Textile ERP software unifies procurement, inventory, production, and supply chain data for apparel and fabric manufacturers in one system.
PLM Understanding pant anatomy is an operations problem, not a vocabulary lesson. This guide for designers maps every component, from rise to hem, to the production decisions, grading rules, and QC checkpoints that keep pant programs from drifting between sample rounds.
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Production A guide to fabric selection in garment production, covering cotton, polyester, silk, and how weight, weave, and use case shape the right choice.
PLM What is garment construction? It is the end-to-end process of turning fabric into finished apparel through pattern-making, cutting, sewing, and finishing. This refreshed guide covers techniques, tools, quality standards, and the operations data trail every apparel brand needs to control cost and consistency.
Production Marker making in garment production is the process of arranging pattern pieces on fabric to minimize waste before cutting. This refresh explains methods, fabric efficiency benchmarks, CAD tooling, and how marker decisions ripple into costing, production, and inventory accuracy across an apparel operations stack.
Inventory Best practices for managing uniform inventory: tracking systems, categorization, ordering policies, audits, demand forecasting, and storage.
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PLM A working review of the best 5 pattern making and pattern grading software tools for apparel brands, covering Uphance, Modaris, CLO, TukaTech, and Optitex, with selection criteria tied to tech pack handoff, graded specs, and production readiness.
Inventory Blind inventory counting is a counting method where the counter does not see the system count before counting. For apparel brands, the decision of when to use blind versus visible counting depends on operational profile, SKU velocity, and the type of variance the count is trying to detect.
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Order Credit notes for apparel brands cover wholesale shorts, DTC refunds, and retailer chargebacks across five recurring situations. This refresh explains the workflow, the QuickBooks and Xero integration depth that matters, and the six-component process that keeps finance and operations aligned.
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