The method-time-cost solution for garment costing and sustainable manufacturing

GSDCost’s core pre-determined time-motion database harnesses the power of the scientific analysis of human motion in 39 Motion Codes, each with its associated international standard time or standard minute value (SMV). These motion codes are used as building blocks and support the creation 1,000s of operations, features and unlimited product styles, allowing businesses to create their own standard methods database based on accurate, efficient and sustainable manufacturing methods.

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Global standard data libraries developed for specific product types (e.g. intimates, jersey knit leisure and athleisure), come pre-built with standardised components and typical operations used in the manufacture of these product types, providing businesses with the opportunity to leverage established industry standards to accelerate the costing process and development of their own standard database.

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GSDCost is used at an early stage in the product development cycle enabling design and cost variations to be assembled and assessed, and the optimum price/performance balance achieved as part of a cost and value comparison.

Design teams can explore various ‘what-if’ scenarios with various product components to reduce the associated labour/ manufacturing costs and achieve a lower ‘in store’ price points, and additional margin opportunities.

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Combining creativity with manufacturability, GSDCost uses standard components within category-specific data libraries, which are derived from the core GSDCost database used in a Manufacturing environment. Consequently, the resulting cost estimates represent a product which can actually be achieved in a factory environment.

This eliminates multiple sampling rounds and costly re-design activity, ensuring delivery compliance and time to market reduction opportunities.

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GSDCost is often utilised as a part of a strategic sourcing initiative whereby partnership negotiations become a positive ‘win-win’ using GSDCost’s scientific costing methodologies.

The target garment minutes, factory efficiencies and cost per minute can all be pre-agreed, resulting in a reduction in the costing cycle time and the optimum sustainable costs.

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Vendors trained practitioners can use GSDCost as a method improvement tool to investigate the detail of the analysis, and to identify opportunities for improvement which, once approved, are saved as new updated versions of the analysis.

Method and time standardisation provides strong foundations for optimising each operation in the production line to improve the current method and boost overall productivity.

Standardised garment construction methods also improve consistency of product quality, resulting in fewer defects.

GSDCost supports the accurate SMV values which are essential for accurate capacity planning and line balancing, supporting a smoother production flow, increased efficiency and improved OTDP.

With accurate and optimised method standards, manufacturers with GSDCost are able to plan with more confidence, shortening ‘learning curves’ for new styles and achieving a smoother production flow, which is increasingly critical to driving efficiency and on time delivery in the face of smaller production runs.

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The globalised fair wage tool brings a new level of visibility and transparency to discussions on time, cost and compliance. Combining the international standard minute value (SMV) to produce any given style, with detailed factory efficiencies, contracted hours and the agreed wage rate, allows brands and manufacturers to quickly agree the wage allowance for any given order, in any factory in the world, and benchmark this against international fair wage standards. This ensures high standards of corporate & social responsibility (CSR) and ethical compliance for brand and manufacturer.

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