Artex

The Artex system tracks fabric from the point it arrives. Each incoming delivery was entered against what was expected, so the quantity received and the quantity ordered sit in the same record.

Deliveries that do not match are logged as short rather than settled informally, and the shortfall stays attached to the delivery it came from.

Stock is held against storage locations, so a roll can be found by where it sits rather than by memory. Movement out of storage is recorded as consumption against the work that used it.

Because fabric leaves storage in cut lengths rather than whole units, consumption is recorded in the quantity actually used, and the remainder stays in the system as stock.

Fabric and textile work carries exceptions that a simple stock count cannot hold. Damaged stock, short deliveries, and cut pieces were each given a recorded place in the platform instead of being carried as informal adjustments outside the books.

Holding them in the same system means the stock figure and the reasons behind it are available together.

Custom fabric is converted into finished products through the system, with the fabric a custom order consumes tied to the product it became. Odd quantities are recorded as they occur rather than rounded to fit a unit count.

Billing runs from the same records, so what is charged follows what was received, consumed, and produced. The owner described the outcome as a complete digital transformation of the process.

The same approach applies wherever stock does not divide neatly into units, and cut lengths, custom sizes, damages, and short deliveries have to be recorded rather than reconciled by hand.