Fabric & Trim Booking Sheet

How to read this sheet

The sheet books quantities and dates; it does not price them. Unit price is flat, so the step down in rate that a supplier offers at the next minimum is not modelled - when the excess looks large, the question of whether a bigger booking is cheaper per unit has to be asked outside this sheet. The minimum rule is one setting for the whole sheet, so a program that mixes yardage floors with boxed lot sizes needs two passes, one per rule. Minimums are quoted per colour and often per size, and this tool has no way to know your colourway split: it counts one minimum per row, so the split has to be in the rows or the over-buy is understated. Consumption is taken as given rather than derived from a marker, and it carries no allowance for fabric width, shrinkage or shade-lot rejection beyond the wastage percentage you type. Lead time is a single figure per item and must already include production, transit, customs clearance and inland movement; it is treated as continuous calendar time, so a factory shutdown, a holiday week or a peak-season port backlog inside that window is not visible here. Payment terms are ignored - a supplier who will not cut until the letter of credit is opened has a longer real lead time than the one quoted. The recovery rate on excess is a judgement, not a market price; material with a buyer logo on it recovers nothing regardless of what is typed there.