Sync BOM software builds a costed apparel bill of materials as the style develops – fabric, thread, trim, label, packaging, consumption, wastage, supplier and price. Because it lives inside the Sync PLM and ERP, an approved BOM becomes a supplier PO without a handover.
Most apparel BOMs live in a spreadsheet that’s built once, priced twice, and stops matching reality the moment a fabric is swapped, a trim is discontinued, or a supplier requotes. By the time sourcing raises the PO, the costing sheet is stale. By the time finance sees landed cost, the margin the range plan was built on is gone.
A BOM system fixes this by making the bill itself a live record. Components, consumption, suppliers and prices are held once and referenced everywhere. Change a fabric price and every style using it reflects the new cost, live. Approve the BOM and it drives the supplier PO directly – no re-keying, no reconciliation.
Every component on the garment – fabric, thread, interlining, zips, buttons, labels, hangtags, polybag, carton – with consumption, placement, supplier and cost. Approved BOM drives raw material requirements and supplier POs directly in the ERP.
The BOM sits on the style, not in a spreadsheet folder. Every team – design, sourcing, production, finance – reads and writes to the same live bill.
Set consumption, wastage and yield per component – not just per garment. Costing reflects the reality of the cut.
Colourways or trim swaps that differ in cost don’t require a duplicated BOM. One bill, per-variant cost.
Multiple supplier quotes on the same component – with lead time and MOQ – compared before you commit.
Projected margin recalculates as the BOM changes. Sourcing and merchandising see cost movement as it happens.
Fabrics, trims, labels, packaging, colours and measurement sets live in shared libraries – with supplier, composition, width, price, lead time and certification data attached. Reused across every style that uses them.
Most brands end up owning three costs: a BOM tool, a PLM they later add, and an ERP that never quite reconciles with either. The difference isn’t features – it’s whether there’s a seam between them.
Components, consumption, suppliers and cost held on the style record.
Vendor quotes compared, margin locked, revision signed off.
Consumption becomes raw material requirements and supplier POs.
Goods receipt and landed cost report against the same BOM.
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We selected Sync based on their highly efficient, finely tuned system that is apparel industry specific. Sync has provided the platform we required to grow our brands in the global arena.
We are in a 1000% better place now than we were with the old system. Sync has given us access to more data visibility and reporting than ever before.
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Apparel BOM (bill of materials) software manages every component that goes into a garment – fabric, thread, interlining, zips, buttons, labels, hangtags, polybag, carton – with consumption, wastage, supplier and price data attached. A good apparel BOM system builds the costed bill as the style develops, so target margin can be checked before bulk is committed and vendor quotes can be compared side by side.
A BOM is one component of a full PLM. PLM covers the whole style record – design, colourways, size range, specifications, tech pack, critical path, quality audit – with the bill of materials as one module. Standalone BOM tools do materials and cost well but usually leave you managing style specs, tech packs and grading elsewhere. In Sync, the BOM sits inside PLM, which sits inside the ERP – one style record, one costing, one supplier PO.
Yes. Because BOM, PLM and ERP share one data model in Sync, the approved bill of materials drives raw material requirements and supplier purchase orders directly. Goods receipt, landed cost and margin reconciliation report against the same BOM the style was developed on – no re-keying, no separate cost model.
Yes. Variant costing on the same BOM covers colourway-specific components (colour-specific fabric, trim, thread) without needing a duplicated bill. The costed BOM shows per-colourway cost and margin against the target price.
Yes. Quotes from multiple suppliers can be captured against the same component and compared side by side, with lead time and MOQ shown alongside price. The approved quote becomes the supplier the PO is raised against.
Components live in the shared fabric and trim library. Update a price, supplier or specification once and every style using it reflects it. Because margin is calculated live from the BOM, sourcing and merchandising see cost movement as it happens – not at month-end.
Not if the ERP includes PLM and BOM natively. The usual reason brands buy standalone BOM software is that their ERP has no concept of consumption, variant costing, or a costed bill that develops with the style. Sync includes those in the platform, which removes the integration, the duplicated component library and the reconciliation work between two systems.
Yes. When brands adopt Sync from a legacy stack, the BOM, PLM and ERP move together – and the standalone PLM and separate BOM tool typically get retired. The migration path, component library import and timeline are covered on a demo call.
No generic slides. Bring a real style and we’ll show its BOM, costing and supplier POs running in Sync in 30 minutes.