How to Track Leather Pieces Cut from a Cutting Table?

When the leather cutting is completed, not every piece left on the table is waste. Parts of correct size and quality; Can be reused as tongue, trim, piping, small bag section, sample or repair part. However, if these parts are not recorded, they are forgotten on the shelves, cannot be found when needed, and eventually turn into real waste.

To track the leather pieces coming out of slaughter, it is necessary to first distinguish between the usable piece and the production waste, then associate each piece with the source leather lot, color, type, thickness, usable size and warehouse location. When a barcoded stock arrangement is established, remaining parts can be searched for in new work orders, reserved, and deducted from the stock when consumed.

Separate Leather Pieces into Three Conditions

What Information Should Be on the Leather Part Stock Card?

A record opened only with the description “brown leather piece” will not be sufficient in the subsequent cutting plan. The following fields should be kept together so that the operator can find the part on the shelf and understand its technical suitability.

On an irregularly shaped piece of leather, simply multiplying the width and height may overestimate the actual usable area. Depending on the equipment of the business, the part area can be taken from digital measurement or classified with standard measurement templates. The important thing is to use the same measurement method consistently across all records.

6-Step Follow-Up Process from Cutting to Reuse

1. 1

   Start cutting with work order

   Record the leather lot put into production, the quantity given and the model-variant information to be produced in the same cutting order.

2. 2

   Separate the pieces on the cutting table

   Create separate collection areas for intact product components, reusable parts, and unusable waste.

3. 3

   Measure and classify

   Record leather type, colour, thickness, quality grade and available space; Do not stock parts below the lower limit determined by your business.

4. 4

   Print barcode and place on shelf

   Generate a barcode for a part or a group of parts with the same specifications. Ensure that shelf changes are not made before the system record is completed.

5. 5

   Search for the appropriate part before the new cutting plan

   List parts with color, type, thickness, and minimum space filters; reserve the appropriate one to the relevant work order.

6. 6

   Turn off consumption and remaining amount

   If the part is completely used, drop it from stock; If there is a reusable partition left, update it with the new size and preserve the transaction history.

Example: How to Record the Cutting Result of 120 dm² Leather?

Let's assume that 120 dm² of leather is given to a work order. At the end of the cutting, 82 dm² is turned into product parts, 24 dm² is reserved as reusable parts and 14 dm² is unusable waste. The leather balance sheet closes as follows.

In this example, if 24 dm² usable wastage is written directly, the actual wastage rate appears as 31.7% instead of 11.7%. Moreover, the value of the parts stock is lost. When the part is later used in another work order, the cost at which it will be transferred should be determined according to the cost method of the business and should be applied consistent with the accounting policy. To see other components of product cost review the product cost calculation guide and review it.

Should You Track Individual Parts or Groups of Parts?

For most businesses, the mixed method is more applicable: valuable items above a specified threshold are tracked individually, while small but reusable items are tracked in a common bin or size class. Threshold; The unit value of the leather should be determined according to the daily cutting volume and the frequency of reuse of the parts.

How to Prevent Accumulation of Part Stock?

• Use the remaining piece first rule: Automatically or controlled query the appropriate parts stock before opening a new skin.
• Aging report: List parts that have not seen movement for 30, 60 and 90 days separately.
• Minimum part standard: Do not save parts that are unlikely to be used just to increase the stock count.
• Regular count: Compare physical part to system record with barcoded shelf count.
• Why analysis: Evaluate model, mold, leather lot, cutting plan and operator data that generate excess parts together.

General causes of wastage and reporting approach on a work order basis Waste tracking guide with ERP; raw material, semi-finished product and bill of materials relationship in the product tree and production recipe article You can examine it in detail.

Visibility Provided by Leather Part Tracking with ERP

When part records are combined with cutting orders, warehouse, and cost data in the same system, the business can see how much finished product comes from which sheet, how many usable parts remain, and the actual scrap separately. It can also trace back which lot a shelf part belongs to and later which product it was used in.

Result: Turn Leftover Skin into Visible Stock

Making use of the remaining leather pieces from the slaughter is not just a matter of organizing the shelves. Correct classification; It affects purchasing need, waste rate, work order cost and material traceability simultaneously. For a successful application, the record that starts on the cutting table, the barcode on the warehouse shelf and the consumption in the new work order must be linked together.

KG Palaimon production management and KG WMS warehouse management With it, you can manage work order, lot, barcode, warehouse location, material consumption and wastage records in a common flow. Thus, usable leather pieces cease to be a forgotten waste and become a plannable production resource.

To evaluate the relationship of the remaining material from the cutting with the model, color and subcontractor records leather and saddlery program You can review the page.