In this article, I'd like to explain the process for inputting, tracking, and reporting on Spoilage, Damages, and Deductions.

The garment spoilage journey begins with a total quantity entered in the "Design" screen of an order ticket. Let's take, for example, a total garment quantity of 1000 pieces.

See the screenshot below.

After a number of departments have touched the order, and the garments have finally arrived at the receiving department, the receivers will check in their garments.

In the screenshot below, you'll see that the system has begun to receive the same 1,000 units we indicated in the "Design" screen.

While receiving goods, often the receiving team will encounter defective garments. In this case, one can make use of the "Defective" field shown in the screenshot below.

Once production has begun on the same order, the production team may produce some damaged goods. In the schedule board, the production team can enter the quantity of damaged goods.

The quantities that are added are only for reference and do not update the order or invoice until specifically updated in the Shipping module. The account managers and sales staff can view information about damages and defective garments by navigating to the order module, and clicking "View D&D". See the screenshots below.

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Finally, once this order makes it to the shipping department, the packers will start packing and counting garments. In the shipping module, when the packing department adds any spoilage, the system will prompt to update order lines. See the screenshot below.

Then,

There is no longer a need to edit order lines manually, as this process will now adjust the invoice automatically. The last piece to the puzzle is the way in which this will sync to QBO.

Our QBO integration will push the amount that has been specified AFTER the spoilage has been registered. So if out of our 1000 garments, 20 have been spoiled, then QBO will receive data that 980 orders were produced, instead of the original 1000 entered by the account representatives or sales staff.