Garments Intelligent System · Built in Dhaka

The operating system for garments.

From buyer email to bank realisation — one thread, with MARBIM, the garment intelligence model, reading every document on the way.

[42s]buyer email → structured RFQ
11departments, one database
4gates the AI cannot open alone
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One order. One thread.

In implementation at a woven factory in Dhaka · merchandising data live since Aug 2026.

MARBIM proposes. Your people approve.

The order journey

One order, nine stations, one thread.

PO-2044
36,000 pcs · piqué polo
Inquiry
Quote
Order
Materials
Cut
Sew
QC
Ship
Paid
01
Merchandising

The buyer email stops being retyping.

A tech pack and a price request land in the shared inbox. MARBIM reads both and drafts a structured RFQ — style, quantity, fabric, delivery — with every field linked back to the line it came from.

From: sourcing@buyer.com · Subject: SS26 piqué polo — price request · 2 attachments
MARBIM drafts
Extraction from PDF, XLSX and email body. A merchandiser confirms before anything is saved.
MERCHANDISING / INQUIRIES
Draft
INQ-8841 · H&M piqué polo
read 42s ago
Extracted field
Value
Confidence
Style / fabric
220gsm piqué
0.96
Quantity
36,000 pcs
0.99
Ship window
12 Nov 2026
0.88
Wash care
not found
Four fields extracted, one flagged for a human.
Review draft
02
Costing

Costing off your real rates, not a guess.

The quote is built from the factory’s own CM minutes, yarn contracts and current overhead — so the margin on screen is the margin you actually earn. Below the floor rate, the costing gate holds it.

QT-3190 · rev 3 · FOB US$ 4.77 / pc · margin 14.6% · held
Costing gate
A quote under the approved floor margin cannot be sent until the owner releases it.
COMMERCIAL / COSTING
Held
QT-3190 · FOB per piece
rev 3
Cost line
Per pc
Share
Fabric · 1.42 kg
$2.61
54%
CM · 18.4 min
$0.94
20%
Trims & packing
$0.51
11%
Margin
$0.71
14.6%
Floor margin is 16%. Held for owner release.
Release quote
03
Planning

The PO lands and the calendar writes itself.

Confirmation turns into a time-and-action plan back-planned from the ship date: 47 milestones, each with an owner and a supplier dependency. Slip one and everything downstream re-dates in front of you.

PO-2044 · 36,000 pcs · S1 M3 L3 XL1 · ship 12 Nov 2026
MARBIM drafts
The TNA is proposed from this buyer’s history. Planning edits the dates, then commits.
PLANNING / TNA
On plan
PO-2044 · 47 milestones
ship 12 Nov
Milestone
Owner
Date
Fabric in-house
Store
18 Sep
PP meeting
QA
24 Sep
Bulk cut start
Cutting
01 Oct
Ex-factory
Commercial
05 Nov
Two suppliers are on the critical path.
Commit TNA
04
Store

Nothing gets booked without the money behind it.

The BOM explodes into yarn, trims and accessories, matched to UD and bonded-warehouse quantities. Booking a supplier needs an open back-to-back LC — the system checks before the store does.

BTB 004/26 · US$ 113,760 · 90 days · master LC 021/26
BTB block
No purchase order is issued against an LC that has not been opened and margin-checked.
STORE / BOM
Blocked
BOM-2044 · 31 lines
UD 10,084 kg
Material
Required
Status
Yarn 30s combed
10,062 kg
Booked
Interlining
3,600 m
Booked
Buttons 18L
144,000
BTB open
Poly bags
36,000
Local
BTB 004/26 not yet issued by the bank.
Open BTB
05
Cutting

Cut quantity locks against the order, not the marker.

Marker efficiency, lay plan and ratio come off the approved size breakdown. Every bundle carries a card, so a shortage at sewing traces back to the lay it came from in seconds.

Lay 14 · 62 plies · marker eff 87.4% · bundle cards 1–318
CUTTING / LAY PLAN
Running
Lay 14 · 62 plies
eff 87.4%
Size
Ratio
Cut
S
1
5,562
M
3
16,578
L
3
11,016
XL
1
2,844
Cut 36,000 of 36,000 · 0 over-cut.
Close lay
06
Sewing

Bulk cannot start before the PP meeting passes.

Line loading, hourly output and WIP by operator — visible on the floor in Bangla. The PP gate is hard: no bulk sewing is recorded against a style whose pre-production meeting has not been signed off.

Line 4 · 09:00–12:00 · 819 / 840 pcs · downtime 11 min
PP gate
Bulk output is refused until QA signs the pre-production meeting for this style.
SEWING / LINE 4
Live
Hourly output · 36,000 pcs
eff 71%
Hour
Target
Actual
09:00
210
198
10:00
210
214
11:00
210
221
12:00
210
186
Hour 4 dropped — machine down 11 minutes.
Log downtime
07
Quality

Every defect has a reason code and an owner.

Inline AQL, 4-point fabric inspection and endline defect capture in one place. The pareto is live, so the top defect of the shift is on the supervisor’s screen before the shift ends.

AQL 2.5 · lot 8,400 · DHU 3.1 · top defect SEW-04
QUALITY / ENDLINE
Pass
AQL 2.5 · lot 8,400
DHU 3.1
Defect
Reason code
Count
Broken stitch
SEW-04
31
Uneven hem
SEW-11
18
Fabric hole
FAB-02
6
Oil stain
FIN-07
4
Lot accepted. Top defect routed to Line 4.
Accept lot
08
Commercial

The document error is caught before the bank finds it.

Carton pack list becomes the invoice, packing list and B/L draft. The system reads the draft B/L back against the LC terms — port, quantity, description, latest shipment date — and stops the mismatch.

B/L draft · Chattogram → Hamburg · on-board 12 Nov · 3 checks
B/L catch
A discrepancy between the draft B/L and the LC terms blocks document release.
COMMERCIAL / DOCUMENTS
Discrepant
B/L draft vs LC 021/26
3 checks
LC term
Draft B/L
Check
Port of loading
Chattogram
Match
Quantity
36,000 pcs
Match
Latest shipment
10 Nov
Late 2d
Description
Knitted polo
Match
Amendment drafted for the buyer’s bank.
Send amendment
09
Commercial

The order closes with a real landed cost.

Documents negotiated, proceeds realised, BTB settled. The order closes against what it actually cost — CM, wastage, air freight, discount — so the next quote for this buyer starts from the truth.

Realised US$ 172,080 · 28 Nov 2026 · margin 12.8% · closed
COMMERCIAL / REALISATION
Closed
PO-2044 · settlement
closed 28 Nov
Line
Planned
Actual
FOB value
$172,080
$172,080
BTB settled
$113,760
$115,119
Air freight
$0
$2,140
Realised margin
14.6%
12.8%
Variance written back to the costing model.
Close order
Scroll to move the order
Three problems, three answers

What actually costs you money.

Problem 01

Your merchandiser types the same order six times.

Buyer email, Excel costing, WhatsApp to the sample room, PI, store requisition, packing list. Six versions of one order, five chances to lose a digit — and no one number anyone trusts.

The answer: extraction, then confirmation.

MARBIM reads the tech pack, the PO and the challan and fills the fields once. Every value keeps a link to the line it came from, so a merchandiser confirms in seconds instead of retyping for an hour.

Six versions of one order, typed six times.
PO-2044 · 36,000 pcs · committed
Buyer email
quote for 36,000 pcs
Excel costing
qty 36,000
WhatsApp · sample room
3,600 pcs bulk?
Proforma invoice
3,600 pcs · US$ 17,208
Store requisition
yarn for 3,600
Packing list
3,600 pcs · 180 ctn
short shipped36,000 pcs
air freightUS$ 48,600
profit at 3%US$ 2,964
GATE-01
Costing gate
A quote below the approved floor margin cannot be sent.
Blocks: send quote
GATE-02
BTB gate
No purchase order is issued against an LC that has not been opened.
Blocks: issue PO
GATE-03
PP gate
No bulk output is recorded before QA signs the PP meeting.
Blocks: bulk sewing
GATE-04
B/L gate
Documents do not leave while the draft B/L conflicts with the LC.
Blocks: document release
Problem 02

The expensive mistakes all look small on the day.

A quote sent under the floor margin. Fabric booked before the BTB opened. Bulk cut before the PP meeting. A B/L dated two days past the LC. None of them look like a crisis until the claim arrives.

The answer: four gates that do not open on their own.

Each gate is a hard stop tied to a named approver. MARBIM can prepare everything up to the gate — it can never pass one. Every release is stamped with who, when and on what evidence.

Problem 03

You hear about Monday's problem on Thursday.

By the time the shortage, the machine breakdown and the slipped shipment reach the owner, the overtime is already booked and the air freight is already quoted.

The answer: an exceptions feed, not a dashboard.

One screen on your phone that only shows what broke its own rule — with the order, the amount and the person who can fix it. Nothing that is going fine ever appears on it.

21:40Fri
Exceptions
4 open · 2 need you
MATERIALS
18:20
Buttons 18L short by 12,400 pcs
PO-2044 · supplier confirmed a 3-day delay
Approve local buy
SEWING
17:05
Line 4 lost 41 minutes today
Machine 12 · needle bar · mechanic assigned
COMMERCIAL
16:40
B/L draft is 2 days past LC 021/26
Amendment drafted — needs your release
Release amendment
QUALITY
15:10
Lot 8,400 accepted at AQL 2.5
DHU 3.1 · top defect SEW-04
Nothing else needs you tonight.
The trust loop

Propose. Approve. Commit.

01
Propose
MARBIM drafts the document with every field traced back to the line it was read from. Nothing is saved.
02
Approve
A named person with the right to that decision reads the draft and presses approve — or edits it first.
03
Commit
Only then does it enter the factory, stamped with who approved it, when, and exactly what they saw.
Nothing MARBIM writes enters your factory without a named person’s approval. Every step audited.
MARBIM proposes
draft · not saved
Draft
Purchase order · 10,062 kg yarn 30s combed
Supplier
Nahar Spinning Ltd
Rate
$4.12 / kg
In-house by
18 Sep 2026
Approve
Edit first
audit 8f21
Rafiq · 21:44
Departments

Eleven departments, one database.

Every department has its own screens, its own people and one thing it stops doing by hand. They share one database, so the number on the owner's phone is the number on the cutting floor.

01
Merchandising
Merchandisers · buyer follow-up
Buyer email to structured RFQ in [42s], every field linked to its source.
See the screens
02
Sampling
Sample room · pattern master
Proto, fit and PP samples tracked against the buyer’s comment sheet.
See the screens
03
Planning
PPC · line chiefs
A TNA back-planned from the ship date that re-dates everything when one milestone slips.
See the screens
04
Store & Inventory
Store keepers · fabric in-charge
UD and bonded balances that reconcile with the bond register, not a parallel sheet.
See the screens
05
Cutting
Cutting master · bundle section
Lay plans with bundle cards, so a sewing shortage traces back to its lay in seconds.
See the screens
06
Sewing
Line chiefs · supervisors · operators
Hourly output and WIP per operator, on the line’s own screen, in Bangla.
See the screens
07
Finishing & Packing
Finishing in-charge · packers
A carton pack list that becomes the invoice and the packing list without retyping.
See the screens
08
Quality
QA manager · inline QCs
Live defect pareto by reason code, on the supervisor’s screen before the shift ends.
See the screens
09
Commercial
Commercial manager · bank liaison
LC, BTB and B/L read against their terms before any document leaves the building.
See the screens
10
HR & Payroll
HR · compliance officer
Gazette-grade payroll with attendance, OT and festival bonus, audit-ready.
See the screens
11
Maintenance
Mechanics · maintenance in-charge
Downtime logged against the line that lost the hour, not a generic machine list.
See the screens
Built in Bangladesh

The parts no imported ERP gets right.

Woven
Knit
Composite
LC / BTB
Back-to-back, tracked
Master LC, back-to-back margin and maturity dates followed through to realisation.
UD / Bonded
Balances that reconcile
Utilisation declaration and bond register quantities that match the customs file.
Payroll
Gazette grades
Minimum wage grades, attendance, overtime and festival bonus — audit-ready.
Bangla floor
Screens for the line
Every operator-facing screen in Bangla, sized for the boards actually on the floor.
Offline
The line keeps running
The floor records through a dropout and syncs when the connection comes back.
The owner’s view

The system that runs the floor.

The floor, at 9:44 on a Friday night. The night view is the same data as the floor screens, dimmed for the hour you actually look at it. Four numbers, then only what broke.

Lines running
0
Efficiency
0%
Orders at risk
0
Shipped this week
0k
21:444G
Friday · night view
Unit 2 · 8 lines
Efficiency
71%
WIP
96,400
On plan
6 / 8
Exceptions
4
Needs you
Buttons short — PO-2044
Store · 12,400 pcs · needs your call
B/L past LC date
Commercial · amendment ready
Line 4 below target
Sewing · 41 min downtime
Everything else is on plan.

See it run your floor.

Twenty minutes, your own order numbers, no slide deck. We reply on WhatsApp within one working day.

Pilot programme · Dhaka · Gazipur · Narayanganj · Chattogram