Product Lifecycle Management
The PLM section of Cutmake covers the commercial and pre-production lifecycle of a garment order — everything that happens before goods hit the factory floor. It turns a customer enquiry into a costed, sourced, production-ready order and then hands off to MES (Manufacturing Execution). PLM is organized into three areas:Operations
Commercial order flow — quotes, sales orders, costings, labor estimation, and sample plans.
Procurement
Demand-driven sourcing — material requests, purchase orders, subcontract, goods receipt, and landed costs.
Product Library
The reusable catalog — styles, tech packs, materials, BOM/BOL, and SKUs that feed costing.
Explore the PLM modules
Order Lifecycle
Quotes → sales orders → costing → production handoff.
Procurement
Material requests, purchase orders, GRN, and landed costs.
Product Library
Styles, materials, BOM/BOL, and SKU generation.
MES (Production)
Where PLM hands off — production orders, lines, and shop-floor tracking.
The end-to-end lifecycle
A garment order moves through PLM in a predictable sequence. The Product Library supplies the reusable building blocks (styles, materials, BOM); Operations turns an enquiry into a costed sales order; Procurement sources what the BOM demands; and the costed order is released to MES as a production order.Costing sits at the center: it pulls quantities from the BOM, drives the Material Requests that feed procurement, and is the gate that must be approved before an order is released to MES as a production order.
Base URL
/api/v1 prefix. See the API Reference tab for the full endpoint list.
Where PLM connects
- MES — approved sales orders become production orders. See
/cutmake/mes. - Finindex — purchase orders create AP bills, cost sheets post to the GL, and subcontract invoices post to Finindex. See
/finindex.