Yarn by the kilo, fabric by the metre, garments by the piece. Material at the dyer, the printer and the stitching unit. Lots, quality checks, costing and GST. Tathven Agentic ERP keeps a textile business in one place, with an AI assistant that knows where every lot is.
Buying, stocking and selling by weight, length and count, with lots and quality checks.
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Weavers, knitters and processors
Your own machines, plus dyeing, printing and finishing sent to outside units.
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Garment and made-up makers
Fabric in, cutting and stitching in-house or outside, garments out to agents, wholesalers and retailers.
The pain points
And how Tathven answers each one
Stock, lots and quality
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Kilos, metres, pieces and bales in one godown
The pain
Yarn is bought by the kilo, fabric is sold by the metre, garments by the piece, and fibre arrives in bales. A register that counts everything the same way never agrees with the godown.
How Tathven solves it
Textile item types come ready at setup: fibre, yarn, fabric, garments, made-ups, trims, and dyes and chemicals. Each type has its natural unit: kilos for yarn and fibre, metres for fabric, pieces for garments. Cones, rolls and bales are ready as units too, and a packing unit converts to its base unit by itself. Stock is held by godown and bin, with stock-takes, blind counts and variance reports.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
Ask “how much 40s cotton yarn do we have, and where?” and the assistant answers from your stock, godown by godown.
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“Which lot was that?”
The pain
Two batches of the same fabric never match exactly. When a buyer complains, nobody can say which lot went to whom, or which other buyers got the same one.
How Tathven solves it
Switch on lot tracking for the items that need it. Each batch then carries its own lot number from receipt to dispatch, and you can use your own batch or dye-lot number. Lot labels print with barcodes. When a lot goes wrong, a recall traces it to every dispatch it went into.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
Ask “which buyers received lot 2417?” or “what lots of this fabric are in stock?”
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Fabric that fails, found too late
The pain
A delivery of fabric is short on GSM or shrinks in the wash. By the time anyone checks, it has been cut, and the supplier will not take it back.
How Tathven solves it
Quality-check templates come ready for textile:
fabric release: GSM, width, wash and rub fastness, shrinkage, tensile strength, shade and weaving defects;
yarn receipt: count, CV%, strength, moisture and shade;
garment release: measurements, seam strength, labels and loose threads.
You edit them to suit your own checks. Controlled items arrive on hold, and stay there until a named person clears them with a reason. A rejected lot can be returned to the supplier or scrapped, and defects are written up with their corrective action.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
Ask “which lots are waiting for a quality decision?” every morning.
Production and job work
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Material at the dyer, the printer and the stitching unit
The pain
Grey fabric goes to the dyer, dyed fabric to the printer, cut panels to the stitching unit. What was sent, what came back and what is still out there lives in challans and phone calls. The processor’s bill arrives with nothing to check it against.
How Tathven solves it
A job order sends the work to an outside processor, or to your own floor. Material is issued against the job order, and the unused balance comes back against it. The finished goods are received, and the processor’s bill is checked against the job order. Work in progress is valued in the books as the job moves. GST’s ITC-04 return for goods sent to job workers is built from the same records.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
Ask “what material is still with the dyer?” or “how many job orders are open with outside units?”
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Your process, not a generic one
The pain
Every textile business runs its own chain: warping, sizing, weaving, dyeing, printing, cutting, stitching, finishing. Software that assumes one fixed process never fits.
How Tathven solves it
You set up your own operations once, in your own words. A bill of materials lists the materials for each operation, with job rates and the wastage you expect at each step. Every job order and costing then works from that chain.
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“Which loom is free?”
The pain
Looms, knitting machines and stitching lines all compete for the same week. A rush order upsets the plan without anyone seeing what slips.
How Tathven solves it
Each machine or line is a work centre with its own machine-hour rate, working calendar and maintenance plan. Production orders are scheduled on a board against what each machine can do. The shop floor screen starts, pauses and stops runs, with downtime recorded as it happens. Utilisation and OEE show how much of each machine’s time went into good output. A daily mail lists the maintenance that is due or overdue.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
Ask “which production orders are running late, and why?” The assistant reads the schedule and the machines. It then prepares a reschedule or extra overtime hours, and nothing changes until you confirm.
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Yarn runs out in the middle of an order
The pain
Yarn and dyes have long lead times. Buy too much and money sits in the godown; buy too little and the looms stop.
How Tathven solves it
Material planning works out what open orders need against stock, and proposes the purchases and production orders for you to confirm. Reorder suggestions and a scheduled “what to order” mail reach the buyer before stock runs short.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
Ask “what should I reorder this week?” and the assistant lists the reorder suggestions, then prepares the purchase order for you to confirm.
Costing
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“What does a metre really cost us?”
The pain
Yarn, sizing, weaving, dyeing, processor charges and wastage at every step. The cost per metre or per piece is worked out once on a spreadsheet, and the price list never catches up.
How Tathven solves it
A costing order works out the cost of a run from the bill of materials, the job rate and expected wastage of each operation, and your overhead, and suggests a sale price. Once approved, it sets the item’s cost and price.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
Ask the assistant to read the costing for a quality before you quote. It moves the costing through approval when you confirm.
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Yarn prices swing, and margins go with them
The pain
Cotton and yarn prices move every few weeks. The cost sheet on file is months old, and some qualities quietly start selling below cost.
How Tathven solves it
The cost-drift view compares each item’s costed price with today’s rates and shows which items a price change has pushed out of line, and by how much.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
Ask “which items did the yarn price rise hit?” and the assistant answers from the cost-drift figures.
Sales and GST
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Agents, wholesalers and retailers on different terms
The pain
Agents and wholesalers buy on credit, retailers pay first, and every buyer has a different discount. Bales leave the godown before anyone checks the money.
How Tathven solves it
Every buyer has one record with its own type, credit days and credit limit. An order is cleared for dispatch only when it is paid, unless the buyer is an agent, a government buyer or a customer on credit terms and the order is within those terms. Discount schemes are set once and attached to the buyer. Quotations carry an expiry date and become orders in one click. A return is recorded as a return, not a cancellation.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
Ask “which agents are over their credit limit?” before you release the next order.
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GST across fibre, yarn, fabric, dyes and garments
The pain
Yarn, fabric, dyes and garments carry different GST rates, and the rates changed in September 2025. A wrong code on an invoice is a notice waiting to happen.
How Tathven solves it
Tathven ships with a textile HSN catalogue updated for the September 2025 rates:
fibre, yarn, thread, fabric and made-ups at 5%;
dyes and auxiliaries at 18%;
garment codes listed by type.
GST returns (GSTR-1, GSTR-3B and the annual return) are built from the tax ledger, not typed in. Purchases are reconciled against GSTR-2B, and a filed month is frozen.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
When a new item has no HSN, the assistant suggests one from the catalogue for you to confirm.
One system, and an assistant that knows it
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“Every question needs a report”
The pain
Every question needs a report, and every report needs the one person who knows how to run it.
How Tathven solves it
Ask Tathven’s AI assistant in plain language. It answers from your own data, within your own access rights:
stock by godown and lot;
lots on quality hold;
material out with processors;
late orders and machine load;
cost drift;
credit limits.
It can also do the work:
prepare a purchase order;
plan or reschedule production and add overtime;
move purchase orders, production orders, costings and sale orders through approval.
Each of these comes as a card you check and confirm. Nothing is posted until you do.
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One system, not five
The pain
Accounts, stock, production, sales and HR in separate software means retyping, mismatched numbers and month-end reconciliations.
How Tathven solves it
Stock, production, sales and finance are one system, and every stock movement reaches the books by itself. Tathven HRMS shares its people and holidays with production planning. Tathven AI Workspaces keeps buyer specifications, lab reports and documents beside the records they belong to. The CRM keeps each lead, enquiry and WhatsApp conversation with the customer it belongs to.
Feature by feature
What you get
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Textile catalogue
Item types for fibre, yarn, fabric, garments, made-ups, trims and dyes; kilos, metres, pieces, cones, rolls and bales.
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Lots and quality
Lot tracking with barcode labels, recall, quality holds, fabric, yarn and garment check templates, return to supplier.
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Job work
Job orders to dyers, printers and stitching units, material issue and return, ITC-04.
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Production
Your own operations, bills of materials with job rates and wastage, production orders, work in progress.
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Machines and floor
Work centres with machine-hour rates, scheduling board, shop floor runs, downtime, utilisation and OEE, maintenance plans.
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Costing
Cost per run with wastage and overhead, suggested sale price, cost drift.
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Purchasing and stock
Material planning, reorder suggestions, godowns and bins, stock-takes.
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Sales
Quotations, orders, agents and wholesalers on credit terms, discount schemes, returns.
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Tax and accounts
Textile HSN catalogue, GST returns from the ledger, GSTR-2B reconcile, full accounts.
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Agentic ERP
An assistant that answers from your data and prepares the next step for you to confirm.
Tathven Agentic ERP
Start with your next order.
Bring your yarn, your looms, your processors and your agents. Tathven Agentic ERP brings the rest. Choose Inventory or Manufacturing, and grow without changing systems.
