Kamna's Words

Kamna uses factory floor words, and each word means one thing. Here is what each one means in the app.

Production

Lot: One garment production run from cutting to packing. What a buyer calls an order.
Lot number: A plain number for each factory that carries on by itself.
Stage: One handover of pieces or material to a vendor or to your own unit.
Sent and received: Sent is what left your factory. Received is what came back. Every stage has both, and Kamna never fills one from the other.
In factory: The pieces are with you, between stages.
Ready to close: Every stage on the lot has been received.
Style: The template for a lot: sizes, colours, piece requirement, target selling price and stages. A lot copies it once, when it is created.
Fabric run: Yarn or greige moving through knitting, dyeing and finishing until it becomes fabric in stock.
Cutting entry: One cutting event on a lot: which fabric, the measured quantity consumed, and the pieces cut by size and colour.
Consumption: What was measured at cutting. Never what a style says should be needed.

Yarn, fabric and trim number: The reference of a stock receipt. It carries on by itself when the box is left blank.
Trims: Labels, thread, buttons, elastic, polybags, zippers and the like.
Stock check: Weighing or counting what is on the shelf, entered beside Kamna's own figure so the difference is recorded.
Dead stock: Material marked as no longer usable. It stays in stock value.

Bill basis: What a vendor billed on: the pieces sent or the pieces received.
Wastage tolerance: Your own percentage added to fabric cost at costing.
First quality, seconds, rejected: The three piece counts entered when a lot closes. Cost per piece divides by first quality.
Raw cost and final cost: Raw cost per piece is total cost over first quality pieces. Final cost adds your overhead percentage. Both are frozen at close.
Findings: Money matters Kamna spots in your entries, shown with the evidence behind each.

Owner and staff: The two roles. The owner sees money. Staff enter everything and never see a money figure Kamna works out.
Vendor and supplier: A vendor does work on your material. A supplier sells you material.
Reports PIN: A 4 to 6 digit code the owner sets. Staff enter it to open Home. It never opens money.
Other: The choice for anything not on a list: a stage, a construction, a trim, a category or a cost you name yourself.