Manufacturing and Industrial
Software for Leather Manufacturing
Hide-based production where every input is a different size and grade, and yield is the entire economics.
Leather starts from a natural material that varies hide by hide. Two hides of the same nominal grade cut differently, and the usable area is only known after cutting. A tannery or goods maker that costs on nominal area is costing on an assumption; the real number is the yield achieved on that lot.
What gets in the way
- Hides vary in size and grade, so standard yield assumptions are always approximate
- Cutting yield differs by operator and by pattern and is not measured
- Grading is subjective and unrecorded, so the same defect produces different outcomes
- Chemical consumption in processing is estimated rather than recorded per lot
- Offcuts have value that is realised inconsistently
What the software handles
- Hide lot recorded with count, area and grade at receipt
- Cutting yield measured against the lot rather than assumed
- Grade recorded with the defect that caused it
- Chemical consumption recorded per processing lot
- Offcuts categorised and valued rather than discarded
What changes
- Costing based on achieved yield rather than nominal area
- Grading consistent enough to compare suppliers
- Chemical cost attributable to a lot
- Offcut value recovered deliberately
Software for your leather manufacturing business
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