SAM Value in Production Planning and Control- How Important!

 PPC department can’t be performed below without having garment SAM value-

• Production execution and monitoring. 
• Order booking based on factory capacity for different types of products.
• Determining the capacity of the factory and capacity of the individual sewing lines in terms of how many pieces (product specific) factory can make in a certain time period with existing machines capacity. 
• Allocating of styles to the lines
• Determining production lead time for each order (styles)
• Process scheduling.

Roles of SAM Value in Production Planning includes

1. Order booking:
During order booking, we need to consider capacity availability in a certain period. In such cases, we can use how many minutes we need to make the new orders using garment SAM value and compare the same with how many production minutes are available in our factory for the defined period.

2. Line Capacity Calculation: 
Method of calculating the production capacity of a line is to use standard time (SAM) of a garment. So, to determine the production capacity of a line (for specific products) in pieces we need to know garment SAM.

3. Lead Time Calculation:
Based on the production capacity, order allocation is done for different lines. A planning guy also needs to calculate how long a style would run in a line if loaded in a single line. If you need to complete the order in less time, calculate how many lines to be considered for an order.

4. Process Scheduling:
Time & Action calendar (T&A) or production process scheduling of each order is done by the planning department. Again to schedule a list of tasks, you need to know the capacity of each process per day (or a predefined period). Based on the capacity of each process you allocate no. of days for the process. Like for the sewing department, you determine the sewing capacity of your line (or multiple lines) and according to that, you set how many days to be given to the sewing department for production.

5. Order Execution and Production Monitoring:
Standard minutes help planners to set a target for sewing lines. Mutually agreed and calculated target given to line supervisors. On a daily basis when you check production status you can compare actual production with target production. In case production is getting delayed you can push the production team based on the given target.

6. Labor Cost Estimation:
One most important task is the labor cost estimation of a specific order. To estimate how much labor cost to be considered for an order (style), you can’t make labor costing without having garment SAM value.

By considering all above, we can say that garment SAM plays a big role in production planning and controlling function in garment industry. But as I know, many factories in Bangladesh are not considering SAM/SMV for Order booking/Capacity Planning.

Collected by: Md. Tarikul Islam Jony
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