A factory’s price for one style, broken down line by line — materials, CMT, overhead and margin — adding up to the FOB. GRAINSIFT reads cost sheets as they come (Excel, PDF or a photo) and also has its own form.
Free On Board: the price per unit with the goods loaded at the export port. It is the money actually paid to the factory, and every share on a cost sheet (material %, margin %) is a share of FOB.
Materials are the fabrics, trims, hardware and packing in the product. Consumption is how much of each one unit uses — unit price × consumption is the line amount.
Standard Minute Value: the minutes of sewing work one unit takes. SMV × the rate per minute is shown as a reference next to CMT; the CMT lump sum stays the price.
The factory’s running costs spread over each unit. In the GRAINSIFT form it is entered as a % of material + CMT; the briefing reads it as a share of FOB.
What a unit costs once it arrives: FOB plus freight, import duty, insurance and other import costs. It is compared with the retail price — never with the cost-sheet breakdown, which is always measured against FOB.
Import tax charged by the destination country, usually a % of the goods’ value. GRAINSIFT fills it in for the export and destination you pick when it works out landed cost.
The most a brand can pay for a style and still keep its margin floor. It is worked out from the retail price: retail × (1 − margin floor − marketing and commission %) − fixed costs per unit, divided by (1 + the costs charged as a % of FOB, such as freight, duty and insurance).
Your company’s standing details, filled in once. Brand Master holds a brand’s settings such as its retail margin; Factory Master holds a factory’s company details and department contacts. Both fill into plans and cost sheets.
A confirmed cost sheet is kept exactly as confirmed, as a permanent record. Any later change is made with Revise and becomes a new cost sheet linked to the earlier ones.
The summary made automatically when a cost sheet is uploaded: the cost build-up, the gap to target and — for the question you pick — a verdict with the checks behind it. The sample verdict on this site is one.
A deeper analysis you start when a cost sheet is worth a closer look — line-level gaps and what to ask for. It uses more of your monthly usage than the briefing.
A PO (purchase order) is the buyer’s confirmed order. In GRAINSIFT a factory issues an internal order from a confirmed cost sheet, with its items, revisions and send records.
Sending an order to the factory’s own departments by email from GRAINSIFT. The contacts need no account, and later revisions or cancellations reach the same people automatically.