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Notes from the floor — agentic AI, garment operations, and the single data backbone.

Agentic AI

An AI layer, not a replacement: rethinking garment ERP

Most garment manufacturers do not need a new ERP. They need their existing system to stop standing still. The data is already there — it simply never meets in one place at the right time. System first...

AI+DI Editorial AI+DI Editorial · May 18, 2026
Garment Ops

BOM as DNA: one source of truth across nine departments

When Sales, technical, IE, warehouse, production, trade and accounting each keep their own version of the truth, the order breaks at every handoff. One BOM, five lifecycle versions The backbone carrie...

AI+DI Editorial AI+DI Editorial · May 12, 2026
Agentic AI

From 3 hours to 60 seconds: OCR for tech packs and trade docs

The first quick win is almost always documents. POs, tech packs, packing lists and trade paperwork arrive as PDFs and scans, and someone retypes them. Read, draft, cross-check The OCR & Validation age...

AI+DI Editorial AI+DI Editorial · May 5, 2026
Agentic AI

Reflect, not replace: keeping a human on every critical call

Automation that sidelines people stalls on the factory floor. Operators stop trusting it, and the first wrong call becomes the reason to switch it off for good. The agent proposes, the person commits ...

AI+DI Editorial AI+DI Editorial · Apr 28, 2026
Garment Ops

Planning toward 85–90%: how the line-balance agent reasons

Line balancing is where plans meet reality. Capacity shifts hour to hour, orders change, and a single bottleneck cascades down the floor. Capacity in, balanced plan out The planning assistant reads li...

AI+DI Editorial AI+DI Editorial · Apr 21, 2026
Case Study

Four to six weeks ahead: catching material risk before it bites

Most material shortages are visible weeks in advance — if someone is doing the arithmetic every day across every order. No one has time to. A standing calculation, not a monthly report The sourcing ag...

AI+DI Editorial AI+DI Editorial · Apr 14, 2026