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Formulas/Calculations

Textile Product Life Cycle Costing (LCC)

Costing & Prices Formulas/Calculations Textile School / July 26, 2025 / Leave a Comment

This document provides a detailed guide to Textile Product Life Cycle Costing (LCC), essential for assessing the total cost of textile products from raw material extraction to disposal. It covers calculations for life cycle cost, cost-benefit ratio, net present value, annualized life cycle cost, end-of-life cost, maintenance cost per cycle, and break-even point, supported by formulas, derivations, and practical examples. Designed for textile manufacturers, designers, and sustainability managers, this resource enhances cost efficiency and environmental responsibility.

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Yarn

Costing for setting up a spinning plant/factory

Costing & Prices Resources & General Yarn Textile School / September 9, 2011 / Leave a Comment

A series of factors pertaining to setting up a spinning plant is explained.

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Apparel Manufacturing

Trim Matrix Explosion & Single-Variant Kitting Exposure

Apparel Costing & Prices Merchandizing Textile School / August 29, 2026

Resolves a size and colour trim matrix into the number of distinct trim variants actually purchased, contrasts a rule-based BOM against flat per-SKU bills for rows held and edits per supplier change, and sizes the order halted when one single variant runs short.

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Commercial & Technical Textiles

Fibre-to-Garment Cost Cascade with Compounding Stage Losses

Costing & Prices Textile School / August 29, 2026

Traces cost from fibre price through spinning, fabric formation, dyeing and cutting to an ex-factory garment cost, compounding the yield loss at every stage. Reports the fibre a garment really draws, the waste multiplier that produces it, the split between fibre and conversion, and how far the quotation moves when fibre prices move.

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Commercial & Technical Textiles

Towel Yarn Consumption & Cost per Dozen

Business & Marketing Costing & Prices Technical Textiles Textile School / August 27, 2026

Works back from a towel’s finished size and nameplate weight to the yarn that has to be bought for it. Terry shrinks hard in finishing, so areal weight rises without yarn being added and a quote built on the finished figure is short from the start. Reports loom-state weight, yarn per towel and per dozen, the cost of both, and how many kilograms of yarn are bought for each kilogram of towel that is sold.

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Commercial & Technical Textiles

GRS Recycled Content through Differential Process Loss

Business & Marketing Costing & Prices Technical Textiles Textile School / August 19, 2026

Runs a recycled and virgin blend through separate process losses, compares the content claimed on input with the content the output actually carries, and solves the recycled input a target content requires after both losses.

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Apparel Manufacturing

Washed-to-Raw Shrinkage Reversal Calculator

Apparel Costing & Prices Merchandizing Textile School / August 18, 2026

Reverses garment wash shrinkage to size the raw pattern block: raw length and width needed to land on the finished measurements, the growth added in each direction, the fabric consumption uplift and the spread caused by shrinkage variability.

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Apparel Manufacturing

Thread Consumption by Stitch Class (ISO 4915) Matrix

Apparel Costing & Prices Merchandizing Textile School / August 18, 2026

Adds up garment thread consumption across the ISO 4915 stitch classes actually used — lockstitch, chainstitch, overedge and safety stitch — each at its own consumption factor, with wastage allowance and thread weight.

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Apparel Manufacturing

Tech Pack Graded Measurement Generator

Apparel Costing & Prices Merchandizing Textile School / August 18, 2026

Scales a base-size tech pack measurement across a full size run from the grade rule, returning the top and bottom size measurements, the span of the run, the tolerance band and how far adjacent sizes overlap within tolerance.

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Apparel Manufacturing

Open-to-Buy, Inventory Turn & GMROI Modeler

Apparel Costing & Prices Merchandizing Textile School / August 18, 2026

Calculates open-to-buy for a buying period from planned sales, markdowns, opening and closing stock and outstanding orders, alongside inventory turn, weeks of supply and gross margin return on inventory investment.

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Costing & Prices

Textile Product Life Cycle Costing (LCC)

Costing for setting up a spinning plant/factory

Trim Matrix Explosion & Single-Variant Kitting Exposure

Fibre-to-Garment Cost Cascade with Compounding Stage Losses

Towel Yarn Consumption & Cost per Dozen

GRS Recycled Content through Differential Process Loss

Washed-to-Raw Shrinkage Reversal Calculator

Thread Consumption by Stitch Class (ISO 4915) Matrix

Tech Pack Graded Measurement Generator

Open-to-Buy, Inventory Turn & GMROI Modeler

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