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VARIOUS DEPARTMENT
PRODUCTION DPT:
In the garment industry stitching section is considered as production department. Though fabric cutting
and garment finishing sections are part of garment production department. In this post I will explain
function of production department.
The main function of the production department is stitching garments. But there are many associate
activities performed by production team to run the production floor smoothly. The major tasks of this
department are described here but are not limited to these only.
1. Style Analysis
The line supervisor analyzes the garment construction of the style to be loaded to the line. He calculates
the machine requirement for the style, based on the garment construction.
Stitching line
Line supervisors calculate the estimated cost per operation. In the piece-rate-production system, the
supervisor sets piece rates for stitching operations. Those factories that have industrial engineering
departments calculate direct labour costs based on the standard allowed minutes (SAM) to produce a
garment.
The floor in-charge and line supervisors plan the daily production output. They take information on
upcoming orders from merchandisers or the planning department and plan manpower and machine
requirements in advance.
5. Stitching garments
The sewing department stitches garments and makes clothes. Operators sew garments using different
types of sewing machines. An operator can be given single or multiple operations to sew.
To get maximum production from the line, line supervisors balance line by adding additional operator, or
by clubbing operations. Read this article to learn about line balancing.
7. Marking parts
Marking is done on the garment component needed to point a position from where stitching is to be done.
Helpers mark on garment parts as per process requirement by using marking chalk and magic marker.
Garment components might need to be folded and ironed prior to stitching to improve seam quality.
Portable irons are used for ironing on garment parts.
Garments are checked in line and off the line. The purpose of checking garments is to reduce defect
generation from the line. The end-of-line checker segregates defective pieces from the good pieces. Read
quality checking procedures in garment production.
The department maintains various logbooks and records. The sewing department records the details of
receiving cuttings from the cutting department and issuing garments to the finishing department. They
make reports of the daily production on a line-wise basis and the manpower used in each line.
In most factories, line supervisors are responsible for bringing sewing operators and recruiting operators
through skill assessment tests.
Finance Department:
The finance department is responsible for managing all the financial administrative affairs of the company
and has a very important influence on many of the policy and commercial decisions taken by
management. The financing of a company’s operations require precise timely planning and control in
order to ensure that adequate funds and credits are available when needed.
Apart from the money to pay suppliers, salaries, expenses, etc funds have to be on hand to finance stocks
of raw materials and finished goods. In periods when trading is difficult and revenues are down, provision
has to be made to cover such periods.
Some important functions performed by this department are:
Budgeting:
The object of budgeting is to plan and control the company’s activities so as to maximize profitability,
and the starting point for all budgeting is the sales budget. This is usually drawn up before the beginning
of each financial year or season considering the sales to be established and new customers, general
economic trends at home and abroad, manufacturing capacity and availability of finance. Other budgets
considered are: labour costs, material costs, overheads, and departmental budgets.
Garment Costing:
It is the ‘identity card’ of the garment and contains all the information required for the pre-production and
production stages making garments. The costing sheet shows the detailed costs for:
Material,
Labour,
Fixed and variable overheads,
Other expenses.
The information for garment costing comes from various sources: sample section, cutting room, break
down time values and costs involved in cutting, sewing and finishing, costs of trims and materials,
overhead costs from finance department.
Administration:
All the departments in a clothing industry require administrative support for their operations to ensure
orderly and systematic functioning.
The procedures covered are;
Preparing orders to supplies,
Checking goods inwards,
Timing and methods for stock taking,
Imports and exports,
Obtaining credits for returned goods and materials,
Issuing credits for customer returns,
Negotiating and issuing tenders for major projects,
Purchase of office furniture and equipment etc.
A clothing business has ‘up-front’ departments such as design, marketing and production and the fact that
they function smoothly is the result of good administrative support.
CONTENTSS.NO. TITLE
1.Introduction
1.1Introduction to the textile
1.2Introduction to the organization
2.Purchase department
3.Production processes
4.Production department
5.Sales department
6.Accounts department
7.Marketing department
8.Stores department
9.Organisation chart
10.Conclusion
VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS
Purchase department,Production department,Stores department,Marketing department,Sales
department,Accounts department.
PURCHASE DEPARTMENT:
The first function of textile mills is purchasing the raw materials.Raw materials include purchasing of
cotton. Before purchasing the samples ofcottons are received after checking it the purchasing order is
sent.The purchase is done through the brokers, commission agents or throughthe direct dealing of the
spinning mills. While receiving the yarn bags themanager has to check for the quality. Then after
receiving the yarn bags theweight of the bags are checked. There are usually two types of yarn wrap and
weftyarn. The counts are usually 20’s, 30’s and 40’s type of cottonsThey are purchasing verities of
cotton. They areMech-1Shivana-superLraRchThey purchase the cotton as bale wise. They are purchasing
nearly 200 bales at onetime. They are using Lorries and tempos as their mode of transport for
theirdelivery of raw material. The recquired raw materials are also purchased formvarious cities and
towns.Mode of paymentCash purchaseCash purchase means purchasing raw materials for ready cash.
Thepayments are made during the purchase because while purchasing large quantitythere will be a cash
discount. The direct payments are made through cashes andcheques.Credit purchaseCredit purchases
means buying the yarns on the credit basis. Whenthe credit purchase is made the rate of the raw materials
will be high and therewill be no discount on the purchase of the raw materials. Credit purchases aremade
due to the in sufficient of cash. There will a specific time for payment ofcash from the purchased day.
PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT:
The production department is responsible for the production of yarn. Thevarious processes in production
are;
Blow room department:All the varieties of cotton are cleaned and mixed with each other andit is
became a lap on.Drawing department:The sworn comes as 8 threads and that is put in the drawing and
then itis become as an even one. And it goes for another process.Simplex department:The sworn comes
as an even one after became an even one it is put in the simplexmachine and it is converted into rowing
yarn.Spinning department:After becoming a rowing yarn it is put in the spinning machine then the
cotton iscompletely converted in yarn. And in coaning processes the yarn are coaned.Coan
winding:After became yarn it is put in the coan winding and it is became a coan yarn. Theone coan waits
about1.20 grams.Weight checking:Using electronic weight machine of the finished clothes areChecked.
And it moves of packing processes.Packing section:The last step involved in the production is packing.
Packing slips areused to indicate the length of the cloths .They are packing the coan as bag wiseand one
bag consist of 40 cones and it waits about 50kg. The packed yarns arestored in separate place for
selling.PRODUCTION PROCESSESMixing of varieties of cottonBlow room processCarding
processDrawing processSmilax processSpinning processCoan winding
Packing process
STORES DEPARTMENT:
The purchased raw materials are stored in stores room for theproduction processes.In the storage
department they are having a large area of gowdon for storingtheir purchase of raw material and they are
keeping safe from destruction untilthey used for production process.The main function of the storage is
due to avoid un necessary accidents likefire, theft etc the stock level can be identified by maintaining the
proper ledgeraccounts. This department is under the control store man.
SALES DEPARTMENT:
Sales are the activities involved in selling the product. Salesare the most important part of every business.
It means the goods are transferredfor money.The prices of finished products are determined by the
managingdirector. The sales manager sells out the product through the brokers, commissionagents etc.
sales are made at various places in India like Kolkatta, Mumbai, Pune,Jaipur etc.The sales are made at
regular intervals. The goods are sent byrailways and roadways. The yarns are sold to old as well as new
customers. Thecash discount is made to the buyer who buys for large amount, cash and creditsales are
made.Cash salesCash sales means selling finished products for ready cash. Thepayments are made during
the sales because while selling large quantity there willbe a cash discount. The direct payments are made
through cashes and chequesCredit salesCredit sales means selling the goods under the credit basis.
Creditsales are normally allowed only to the normal regular buyers. Credit sale is madeonly when there is
a sufficient capital to run the business. The firm allows.
MARKETING DEPARTMENT:
Marketing is the main function because without the market the goodscannot be sold out. But in the field
of textile the role of the marketingdepartment is not much necessary, because the entire produced good
are not thefinished goods and it should take away for the further process.In Thangam textile they are
marketing the two varieties of yarn as 40and 30 based on their thickness. The 40 is used for making shirts
and 60 are usedfor making pants.In Thangam textile the manager directly deals with the other nearby
buyers. So themarketing department is not done in full effort.
ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT:
Accounts department also plays a vital role in the businesses bymonitoring the income and expenditure,
regulating receipts and payments thefinancial strength as otherwise of the unit at any time. Accounts helps
to knowweather the businesses are in running progress or not. So hence every businessneeds to maintain
the accounts as per the rule of the government and want to paythe tax according to the profit of business.
Accounts help to know the currentfinancial position of businesses when ever needed. Further it will help
him toknow the level of the investment in the fixed assets, working capital, fixedexpenses etc.Thangam
textile maintains all the account with the help of well experiencedaccountants. They maintain all the
accounts like journal, ledger, and trailbalance etc…, for every transaction the entries and the accounts are
entered. Allthe accounts related to the other departments are also handled and kept incontrol. While
purchasing and selling the yarn and the other items they willreceive the bills they use to file all the bills in
the separate books ofaccounts. They have the separate beam stock book for recording the stocks. Byusing
separate book all the personal expenses are entered.Auditing is easy because of maintaining the accounts
properly. They are payingthe tax regularly every year. Before auditing all the accounts are checked by
theauditor and then it is submitted. Hence the accounts departments are maintainedstrictly and properly in
order to maintain the stable high profit.
FINANCE DEPARTMENT:
Finance is necessary for the every business. The Thangam textiles haveinvested over 4.5 cores of the
capital and the other raw materials which includeall expenses. This textile has borrowed over a loan from
Indian bank and Vijaybank. Credit purchases are avoided due to proper financial assistance.
Creditpurchases make the rate of yarn very high. 70% of the capital is contributed bythe directors and the
remaining 30% are borrowed from bank as the loan. They haveborrowed the money by giving proper
documents of the company assets to the bank.The Indian bank is charging about 15% of he interest per
annum.Hence it is easy to borrow the money from the banks. So this firm borrows alltheir needs with the
bank. Hence the finance is the very important for the growthand development of the business in the field
of the textiles. High levelinvestment leads to the more profit percentage of this type of the bus