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Quote from: tonypep on April 17, 2014, 03:47:16 PM3 person crews on all autos.As in loader/puller....third op is watching ink/doing teardowns and setups?
3 person crews on all autos.
Quote from: ZooCity on April 17, 2014, 03:57:11 PMQuote from: tonypep on April 17, 2014, 03:47:16 PM3 person crews on all autos.As in loader/puller....third op is watching ink/doing teardowns and setups?Loader/unloader/dryer op.....prepress departments
In a shop like yours Alan who sorts incoming garments? What about ordering of blanks and such? Sales? Are each of those there own deal or do your productions guys get tied up in that too? Curious how others do it in bigger shops.
Quote from: GraphicDisorder on April 17, 2014, 07:27:37 PMIn a shop like yours Alan who sorts incoming garments? What about ordering of blanks and such? Sales? Are each of those there own deal or do your productions guys get tied up in that too? Curious how others do it in bigger shops. The crew I mentioned earlier was strictly screen printing production but we have others that do the receiving of goods, purchasing, etc. The sales person takes an order then usually purchases it themselves online but if they're busy we have someone that does admin stuff that can handle that while they answer phones and help walk-ins. Then the garments come in and we have enough coming in every day that a full time employee is needed just to handle that. She checks all the quantities and styles and goods come in already sorted by PO and each job has it's own PO so we don't spend much time sorting through thousands of garments trying to figure out where they go. Then once the job is checked in, it goes to the department that will decorate it. Then it's up to production to take the job from there. When the job is finished the sales person is notified and they contact the customer and they come pick it up or we ship it out. If the job is shipped out, the receiving person then gets the job back and ships it out. We have an artist on staff that handles mostly screen printing art but he also handles engraving when it's something difficult that our laser engraver can't do. Our laser engraver also does deliveries and accounts receivables since our engraving department only does a dozen jobs a week on average.We used to do things a little differently. The sales person would take an order then turn it in to a purchasing agent who would then do the "data entry" into shopworks and then purchase the goods. We lost a good purchasing agent years ago and couldn't find anyone that could do the job without making many mistakes so the sales staff sort of took over the purchasing because it's difficult to have to handle mistakes made by others and it works out great the way we do it now. The sales person has more to do with the job and therefor more accountability/responsibility and only two sales people are actually busy enough at times to not handle their own purchasing. If a sales person is too busy we have an inside sales person (handles customer provided accounts) who can do the data entry and purchasing for the job sort of like the old system we had.When customers come in a sales person will usually take care of them but we have a person up front answering phones and helping walk-ins if a sales person isn't available (early mornings, sales staff drags into work about 9-9:30 most days).I think our system has room for improvement, it's far from perfect. We could trim some fat here and there and we're trying to maximize everyone's abilities and put people where they do the best job and that's not easy. My wife has someone that is helping her now since she sells the majority of what we produce and that's not working out too well. You have to be very detail oriented to do most of this. One misplaced letter or number and you get a completely wrong shirt and we have things in place to catch those mistakes but they get missed on occasion.
Tony,What are your parameters for a complete job? Reason I ask is that with a full crew I calculated 4.5 - 6 hours to do the 15 1 color 48 piece runs.
I'm with Alan, paper planning (x) correction-for-real-world factor (1.3 - 1.8 is what I use) = actual time