Lorenzo Manta
From first sketch to a customer's closet, a garment crosses eight checkpoints. Miss one, and every checkpoint after it inherits the delay.
Moodboard
Direction locked before any technical work starts.
Material Library
Fabrics compared and chosen before the BOM is built.
Tech Pack & BOM
The point where the garment becomes buildable and costable.
Sampling
Proto → Fit → PP Sample, each one a signed checkpoint, not a formality.
Demand capture
The garment becomes an order — see Section 2. This is where most brands lose time without noticing.
Bulk production
Tracked against a real Production Timeline, not a guess.
Quality control & shipping
TOP Sample, AQL, packing, ex-factory date.
Retail
The moment the calendar either held, or didn't.
Between sampling and production, a garment has to become a real order — and that happens in four different ways, each with its own clock. Most delay problems start here, not on the factory floor.
Wholesale
Collections are shown at trade shows or in showroom appointments. Buyers place orders 4–8 months ahead of delivery. This is where the Time & Action Calendar (TNA) comes in: a critical path built backward from the buyer's required delivery date, with buffers built in — because in wholesale, a factory delay isn't your problem alone anymore, it's the retailer's shelf, too.
Vertical retail
No external buyer, no showroom season. Quantities come from internal sell-through data and open-to-buy planning. The clock changes shape: the risk isn't a missed delivery to a retailer, it's capital sitting unsold on your own shelf.
Pre-order / made-to-order
The customer pays before the garment exists. Demand is confirmed before production starts, not guessed at. It cuts overproduction risk sharply, but moves the pressure onto communication — customers who paid upfront don't tolerate silent delays.
Drops
No season, no forward calendar. A fixed quantity, a fixed release moment, promoted through scarcity rather than a buying cycle. The "timing" here isn't a Gantt chart — it's a countdown, and everything has to be ready before the window opens, not during it.
Choosing the wrong one of these four for a given collection is a business-model mistake disguised as a scheduling problem.
Time & Action Calendar / Critical Path
The working, dated version of every milestone between order confirmation and delivery, built backward from the deadline the buyer or channel requires.
Production Timeline
Fabric in-house → cut → sew → QC → ex-factory, mapped against real calendar dates so a delay is visible the day it happens.
Production Progress Checklist
Style-by-style tracking against that timeline, turning "I think we're on schedule" into a verifiable fact.
Shown here as neutral samples, same treatment as Method — no client names, no real dates.