Cut Plan

The Overhauled Cut Plan module aims to provide a streamlined and efficient workflow for managing cutting plans, markers, cut jobs and cut report.

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Cut Planning

Overview

Cut Planning is used to store the shared information across the style, like POs, size wise quantities etc.

It will serve like a Master Cut Planner against which all plans of same Work Order, Style No, Buy Month and Color Code will be created.

Process

User will create a cutting plan grouped by the following:

• Work Order
• Style No
• Buy Month (optional)
• Color Code

With in the cutting plan, the user will lock the following:

• Panels: Define which types of panels will be cut in the child cut plans.
• Size-wise Quantities: Locks the number of pieces to cut for each size. These quantities are OrderQty of that size and automatically fetched and submitted — they cannot be modified.
• Upper Threshold: Specify how much extra can be cut above the original quantity (in percentage), if needed. This value can be increased later.

Cut Planning Screenshot

Info

Each Cut Plan have two major properties associated with them:

• Cut Plan Type: Differentiates between the main and child cut plans:

  • Master
  • Track aka Body
  • Accessories

• Cut Type: Defines the sub-category of accessories (only used when Cut Plan Type is Accessories):

  • Netting
  • Pocketing
  • Facing
  • Fusing
  • Hood

After initiating cut plan, following db tables will be populated:

1. CutPlan

   • Contains the main cut plan details such as:
     • CutPlanType [Master, Track, Accessories] (Master in this case)
     • CutType [Netting, Pocketing, Facing, Fusing, Hood] (Null in this case)
     • CutPlanStatus [Active, ‘Aborted’, ‘Closed’] (Active in this case)
     • WorkOrder, StyleNo, BuyMonth, ColorCode against which the cut plan is created

2. CutPlanPoMapping

   • Stores all the POs available against selected OrId and Color Code.

3. CutPlanPanel

   • Stores all panels with their associated CutTypes.

4. CutPlanSize

   • Stores the size-wise quantities (aka Planned Quantity) that will be cut in its all plans.

Cut Plan

After finalizing and submitting the cut planning, the following screen will appear:

On this page User will have the all possible Types that he selected while creating cutting plan in the left side menu panel to create new cut plan.

Creating New Cut Plan.

1. Select Cut Plan Type And POs

1. Click on the Add icon next to the desired cut plan type from the left-side menu panel.

2. A Drafted cut plan will be created of that type.

3. Select the POs that user wants to add in this cut plan.

   • Only those POs will be available for selection that are currently not a part of any other Active cut plan of same type.
   • The sizes in that Pos and their order quantity will be populated in a table in left section.

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Adding new Markers

Marker can be added using two ways:

1. Auto-Generated Marker Addition.
2. Manual Marker Addition.

Auto-Generated Marker Addition

In auto generation, the user is provided with a pre-filled template for markers based on:

• Maximum Overproduction (calculated automatically from the threshold set during cut planning)
• Maximum number of markers
• Maximum plies per marker

Step to create auto generated markers.

1. Click on Auto Generate Marker button at the top of the page.

2. Enter the required parameters like Max Markers and Max Plies per Marker and hit generate.

3. A list of auto-generated templates will appear in the select field next to the button.

4. Choose the desired template from the dropdown.

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Info

Auto-generated markers are provided for user convenience.

User can still fully customize them — including plies and size ratios — after selecting a template.

Manual Marker Addition

Step to create manual markers.

1. Click on Action Icon (donated by three dots ⋮) at the head of the markers table.

2. A action menu will appear containing different action like adding/deleting marker etc.

3. Click on Add Marker button.

4. A new row will appear in the marker table with editable Plies and Size Ratio fields.

   • The marker name will follow the format: {OrId}-{ColorCode}-MK{previous MarkerNo + 1}

5. Repeat the above steps to add more markers.

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6. Each Marker row also contains Action Icon ⋮ button that will opens a menu through which additional details like Marker Length and Width can be added.

Adding New Cut Jobs

Just like markers, Cut jobs can also be added using two methods:

1. Auto Generate Cut Job.

2. Manual Cut Job Addition.

Auto Generate Cut Job

Auto-generating cut plan further have two sub categories:

1. Create cut jobs for all markers.

2. Create cut jobs for a single markers.

Create Cut Jobs for all markers.

In auto-generation, the user needs to specify how many maximum plies a Cut Job can have.

1. Click on the main action button (donated by three dots ⋮) at the head of the markers table.
2. Here a field will be available named as Cut Job Plies in opened menu.
3. Enter the maximum number of plies that a cut job can have and hit enter.
4. Cut Jobs will be automatically created for every marker in the table.

Create cut jobs for single markers.

1. Click on the action button (⋮) next to the marker name against which you want to create cut jobs.
2. A menu will appear containing the fields named as Cut Job Plies.
3. Enter the maximum number of plies that a cut job can have in that field and hit enter.
4. Cut Jobs will be created only for that marker.

Manual Cut Job Addition

Step to create manual cut jobs.

1. Click on the action button (three dots ⋮) next to the marker name against which you want to create cut jobs.

2. A menu will appear containing the action Add Cut Job.

3. Click on Add Cut Job button.

4. A new row will appear in the Cut Job table with:

   • Plies (editable)
   • Size-wise Quantities (read-only)

   

5. Each Cut Job row also contains Action Icon ⋮ button that will opens a menu through which additional details like Cutting Table and Planned Date can be set .

   

6. The same menu also includes options to:

   • Delete the Cut Job
   • Add another Cut Job to the same marker

Note

In the above steps, the user is able to save the cut plan at any point.

Submission of Cut Plan

After finalizing the markers and cut jobs, the user can submit the cut plan.

Before submission, the following checks will be performed. If any of these checks fail, the submission will be rejected:

1. The cut plan must have at least one marker.
2. The sum of all planned quantities across all markers cannot exceed the maximum quantity of that size.
3. The sum of all plies in a cut job cannot exceed the total plies of its corresponding marker.

After successfully passing above checks, the user will be able to submit the cut plan and following tables will be populated:

1. CutPlan

   • Contains the main cut plan details such as:
     • CutPlanType [Master, Track, Accessories]
     • CutType [Netting, Pocketing, Facing, Fusing, Hood]
     • CutPlanStatus [Active, ‘Aborted’, ‘Closed’]
     • WorkOrder, StyleNo, BuyMonth, ColorCode against which the cut plan is created

2. CutPlanPoMapping

   • Stores all the POs selected for the cut plan

3. CutPlanPanel

   • Stores all panels assigned to the selected CutType during cut planning

4. CutPlanSize

   • Stores the sum of size-wise quantities (aka Planned Quantity) of all markers in the cut plan

5. Marker

   • Store all the markers with their plies.

6. MarkerMapping

   • Store the size ratio of every size in that marker

7. CutJob

   • This table will store all the cut jobs with following major fields
     • MarkerID against which the cut job is created
     • CutPlanID against which the cut job is created
     • Plies
     • CutNo Incremented based on the previous max CutNo of the same OrId.
     • PlanDate The date on which user plans to execute this cut job.
     • CuttingTableID The table ID of the cutting table on which user plans to execute this cut job.
     • And other columns like OrId, ColorCode, StyleNo, CreatedBy etc.

Aborting a Cut Plan

On aborting the cut plan, the cut plan will not longer be used.

On aborting following action will be performed:

1. The Status of that CutPlan will be set to Aborted
2. The Status of all pending CutJob of that CutPlan will be set to Aborted

Steps to abort a Cut Plan

1. Navigate to left section, here at the top of the selected plan there will be an action icon (⋮) at top right corner of the plan.
2. Click on the action icon (⋮) and select Abort Cut Plan from the drop down menu.
3. A prompt will appear asking for confirmation. Click on Confirm to abort the cut plan.

Note

After aborting a cut plan, its POs will become available for selection again in other cut plans of same type.