You cut and sew, in your own shop or through contractors. You own fabric, trims and the risk between them. If that is your company, this page describes your system: AIMS360 holds the bill of materials on every style, rolls up the real cost, buys the materials, issues the cut tickets, tracks contractors and work in process, and lands finished goods in the same inventory your sales channels sell from.
An apparel manufacturer needs software that understands making, not just selling. Most systems in this market track finished goods and treat production as a note field. AIMS360 runs the making side as first-class work: the bill of materials on the style, costing that rolls up from fabric, trim and labor, purchase orders for raw materials, cut tickets that consume specific rolls and lots, contractor and work in process tracking, and finished goods received into one inventory that Shopify, wholesale and EDI retailers sell from.
Brands land on this page saying some version of these sentences. Two or three is enough.
The bill of materials lives on the style record: fabric with consumption, every trim, and the labor operations, each with a cost.
The style's cost rolls up from its components, so you know the margin while it is still a decision, not a surprise on the factory invoice.
Vendor purchase orders for fabric and trim come from the recipe times the plan, so purchasing buys what production will actually consume.
The cut ticket reads the BOM, issues fabric from specific rolls and lots, and becomes the work order the whole run follows.
Production process tracking shows where every cut is, by operation and contractor, whether the work is downstairs or overseas.
Completed units land in one inventory that Shopify, wholesale and EDI retailers sell from, with QuickBooks keeping the books in sync.
Everything a manufacturer does starts with the bill of materials. It is the recipe for the style: fabric with consumption per garment, every trim from buttons to polybags, and the labor operations, each carrying a cost. Get the recipe right and costing, purchasing and the cut ticket all inherit the truth. Get it wrong and a few cents of error quietly multiplies across every unit in the season.
In AIMS360 the BOM is built on the style record in Production (PLM), not in a spreadsheet beside it. The cost sheet rolls up from the components, so when a fabric price or a contractor rate changes, the margin math follows. The same record then tells purchasing what to buy and tells the cut ticket what the run will consume, which is exactly why a BOM that lives in Excel stops working the day production starts.
Very few apparel manufacturers run one building where everything happens. The real shape is a network: cutting here, sewing at one contractor, washing at another, finishing back in house, and sometimes a factory overseas making the same style for a different program. The question that eats the production manager's day is always the same one: where is each cut, and is it late?
AIMS360 answers it with the cut ticket. Each ticket follows its run through operations and contractors as work in process, so production planning and WIP tracking work the same way whether your network is three blocks of downtown Los Angeles or contractors and factories in three countries. You see what is at each stage, what each contractor is holding, and what is due back when, without calling anyone.
It also settles the money side of contracting: the operations on the BOM carry the agreed cost per operation, so what a contractor invoices can be checked against what the recipe said the work was worth.
For a manufacturer, fabric is money on a shelf. AIMS360 treats raw materials as inventory in their own right, tracked by lot, roll and warehouse location with built-in warehouse management. You know which rolls exist, where they sit, and what each cut consumed.
The apparel-specific reason this matters is dye lots. Two lots of the same fabric can shade differently, and a garment cut from both shows it. Lot and roll tracking is what lets a cut ticket pull matching lots, and what tells you honestly how much usable fabric remains rather than how much was bought. It is also the difference between shrinkage you can see and shrinkage you discover at year end.
Manufacturing ERPs tend to stop at the finished goods door, which forces a second system for selling and a nightly argument between the two. AIMS360 unifies inventory, sourcing and multi-channel sales in one platform: the units your production floor completes land in the same inventory that Shopify, wholesale reps and 350+ EDI retailers sell from, and invoices sync with QuickBooks.
And if you make some styles and import the rest, which is how a lot of brands actually operate, both models run side by side: produced styles carry BOMs, cut tickets and WIP, while imported styles run on factory POs and landed cost, the flow covered on the importer business model page. One inventory, one set of books, two ways of getting goods into them.
The making side, not just the selling side: styles with a bill of materials, costing that rolls up from fabric, trim and labor, purchasing for raw materials, cut tickets, contractor and work in process tracking, and fabric tracked as real inventory. Then the same system should sell the finished goods through Shopify, wholesale and EDI, so production and sales share one set of numbers.
Yes. AIMS360 runs the cut and sew workflow end to end: the bill of materials on the style, raw material purchase orders, cut tickets, contractor tracking, work in process and receiving into finished goods, whether you sew in house or send work out.
Yes. Cut tickets follow the work as it moves through contractors and operations, so you can see where every cut is, what stage it is at and what is late, without calling anyone. That covers domestic contractors and overseas factories in the same view.
The bill of materials is built on the style record: fabric with consumption, trims and labor operations, each with a cost. The style's cost rolls up from those components, and the same BOM drives raw material purchasing and the cut ticket. There is a full page on how AIMS360 handles the bill of materials.
Yes. Raw materials are inventory in their own right, tracked by lot, roll and warehouse location with built-in warehouse management, so you know which rolls exist, where they sit and what production consumed. That is what lets a cut ticket pull matching dye lots.
Yes. Production tracking follows work in process wherever the work happens, in your own shop, at local contractors or at overseas factories, with visibility into what is in production, what is moving and when it is expected.
The work order for a production run: which style, which sizes and quantities, and which materials the run will consume, taken from the BOM. In AIMS360 the cut ticket issues fabric from specific rolls and lots, follows the work through operations and contractors, and receives finished units into inventory when the run completes.
Yes, and it is common. Produced styles carry BOMs, cut tickets and WIP, while imported styles run on factory purchase orders and landed cost. Both end up in the same inventory and the same books, so you do not need two systems for two business models.
Yes. Finished goods land in one inventory that Shopify, wholesale and 350+ EDI retailers all sell from, and invoices and vendor PO billing sync with QuickBooks. The people making the goods and the people selling them see the same numbers.
AIMS360 customers range from emerging brands to companies past $100 million, with most between $5 million and $100 million in revenue. The production features are the same across that range, so a small cut and sew operation is not buying enterprise complexity to get a BOM and cut tickets.
Last reviewed 10 August 2026 by the AIMS360 team. This page describes the cut and sew business model and links to the AIMS360 feature pages that document each capability: bill of materials, production process tracking, vendor purchase orders, inventory and warehouse management, Shopify, EDI and QuickBooks. Customer revenue figures reflect the typical AIMS360 customer range as published on aims360.com.
Bring one style to a 30 minute demo: we will build its BOM, roll up its cost, and walk the cut from ticket to finished goods.
