For apparel and footwear manufacturers
The AI second brain for your factory.
ShipLoom watches every order, every date and every department, 24 hours a day. It chases late work before it costs you, tells you each morning which shipments are in danger and why, and leaves your ERP exactly as it is.
- Keep your ERP. No IT project, no migration.
- Live across your factory in 30 days.
- Ask it out loud, in English or Tamil.
Ask ShipLoom“Which orders for our biggest customer are late?”
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Every order and every activity watched on your own working calendar, holidays and shift times included.
Late work is caught at shift end and chased up the ladder, not found weeks later at the vessel.
of order value kept from air freight, late-delivery fines and discounts by shipping on the date you promised.
Built for the owner who still carries the factory in their head.
Factories and export houses running 20 to 500 orders at a time. You already have an ERP. You still run the day from memory, Excel and WhatsApp.
The problem
Your factory runs on one person’s memory. Yours.
Your ERP records what already happened: the PO, the goods receipt, the invoice. It does not know the PP meeting is on Thursday, that the trims are three days late, or that those three days just cost you the vessel.
dated promises in a factory with 80 open orders and 40 activities each. Your ERP holds almost none of them. So where do they live?
A TNA sheet that is wrong by Tuesday.
Updated by hand once a week. Every department keeps its own copy, and none of them agree.
The truth is said, then scrolls away.
Fabric ETAs, approvals and excuses are buried in a dozen groups that nobody can search.
You watch the ten dangerous orders.
You hope the other seventy are fine. Your memory does not scale to the 101st order.
- Air freight
- A discount
- A chargeback
What we solve
A second brain beside you. It remembers, watches and answers.
ShipLoom is not another ERP. Your ERP stays the book of record for POs, stock and invoices. ShipLoom is the brain on top: one map of every order, from inquiry to ship date, that every department shares.
It remembers
Every order, every promise.
Every activity with its dates, owner, proof photos and remarks, and every change to any of them. Nothing is ever permanently deleted. The history only grows.
It watches
Your calendar, your shift end.
At shift end, any activity that is not done is late, and the chasing starts by itself. The expected ship date is recalculated from what actually happened, so you see the slip weeks before the vessel.
It answers
One page for each person.
Champions see today’s work on their phone. Heads see what needs a decision. You see shipment risk and the value exposed. Anyone can ask out loud and get the answer from your own data.
One map: Customers · Development · Orders · Production · Quality · Tasks
- Remembers every order, activity, date and change
- Watches your calendar, shift end and the ladder
- Answers with My Work, Shipment risk and Ask ShipLoom
The benefit
Ship on the date you promised. Keep the margin.
Every late order costs money twice: once to rush it, and once in the buyer’s trust. ShipLoom finds the slip while there is still time to fix it cheaply.
Fewer late shipments
Lateness is caught at shift end on the day it happens. The vessel check tells you if the order still makes the sailing.
Margin protected
Less air freight, fewer discounts and chargebacks. Shipment risk shows the exact value exposed, by customer and week.
Your day back
“Where is it?” is answered before anyone asks. The morning meeting runs from one shared page, not six phone calls.
Room to grow
Before you accept an order, the schedule check gives the earliest date you can truly keep, and warns when the team is already full.
of the cost of goods is the fine a major US retailer charges suppliers who miss on-time-in-full.
Walmart OTIF policy · FreightWaves
the cost of sea freight is what you pay to fly a late order from Asia to North America.
Eightx, June 2026
of apparel buyers plan to move more sourcing closer to home. A late factory is easy to replace.
McKinsey CPO survey, 2021
From Proto to ex-factory, every activity on one map.
Garment exporters juggle samples, lab dips, fabric, trims, line loading and inspections across dozens of orders. ShipLoom comes ready with apparel workflows so you start on day one.
- A lab dip approval waits in someone’s inbox while cutting dates slip.
- Trims arrive three days late and nobody connects it to the ship date.
- Output falls behind plan on one line, and you hear about it on Friday.
- Ready-made workflowsProto, SMS and Bulk come ready, with the usual activities from fabric sourcing and costing to packing and final inspection. Wash, print and embroidery are added as special requirements.
- Styles and samples that count for youTech pack, materials, consumption per piece, size chart with tolerances, colourways and costing. Sample rounds, verdicts and first-time-right rates are counted for you.
- Materials that close the activityWhen the last fabric or trims line is received, that activity completes on the plan by itself.
- Line plans and outputOutput per line per day, planned against made. “Behind” is flagged at shift end. When sewing output reaches the order quantity, Bulk Sewing completes.
- Quality that protects the shipmentInline, pre-final and final inspections with AQL. A failed final inspection holds the shipment. Certificates expiring within 30 days are flagged.
- Subcontracting in viewWork sent to job workers is tracked on the same map, so outside work never goes invisible.
Built for stitching and lasting, not just sewing.
A pair of shoes depends on uppers, linings, soles and components from many suppliers, across a full size run. One late sole holds the whole order. ShipLoom speaks footwear and watches every part.
- Components arrive from many suppliers, and the last one to arrive sets your ship date.
- Sample rounds repeat, and nobody tracks why the buyer rejected them.
- Exports to Europe will need traceability evidence that lives in nobody’s system.
- Footwear workflows, in your wordsSewing becomes stitching. Lasting is an activity of its own. Every activity is dated on your factory’s working calendar.
- Every material, every supplierMaterials are tracked per order and per supplier. Receiving the last line completes the activity on the plan.
- Development by the pairStyles with tech pack, materials and consumption, size chart with tolerances and colourways. Sample rounds with verdicts and rejection reasons.
- The vessel checkThe customer’s sailing frequency and transit time tell you whether the order still makes the vessel, before it is too late to act.
- Evidence ready before the brand asksEvery order keeps its history, proof photos, material receipts, inspections with AQL, lab tests and certificates in a log that is never deleted. The EU Forced Labour Regulation applies from 14 December 2027.
The chasing runs by itself
Late work climbs the ladder until someone acts.
Nobody has to remember to follow up. Every threshold is your company’s own setting.
Shift end, due day
Champion“Activity late, please acknowledge.”
After 24 hours
ManagerStill not done? The Manager is told.
After 48 hours
HeadThe department Head steps in.
After 72 hours
Escalation TeamThe people who can unblock it.
Every day
You“Order in danger” alerts and the value exposed.
Customers stay informed too. Stage updates, approval reminders and shipment notices go out by WhatsApp, SMS or email. A delay notice waits for your OK first, so you stay in control.
Why you can trust it
Built for the factory floor, and for accuracy.
ShipLoom follows a written rulebook. You can check every rule on the screen.
Dates you can trust
The schedule check gives the earliest date you can ship before you accept. A date you typed stays put while the rest adjusts. An actual date can never be in the future.
Nothing lost, nothing overwritten
No permanent deletes. Trash and restore. Only one person can edit an order at a time, so nobody silently overwrites anyone else.
Everyone sees, few change
Prices, costing, customer contacts and supplier prices are removed by the server for anyone who should not see them. Each company is sealed off from every other.
AI that reads, never writes
Ask ShipLoom looks things up with your own permissions and shows the order cards it used. It stores no audio and keeps transcripts for 90 days.
Plain words, English and Tamil
Order, Activity, Ship date, Late by 3 days. No jargon. Every screen, email and notice arrives in each person’s own language.
Made for the floor
Big buttons for gloved hands. Large text that is never cut off. Works offline. Swipe to complete with Undo, and add a proof photo.
Getting started
Live in 30 days. No IT project.
All you need is one Admin, a spreadsheet of your people, and your ERP’s export.
Set up
People, teams, factories and your working calendar. Workflows come ready. Your open orders come in from the ERP export.
The floor
Champions complete today’s activities on their phones with a proof photo. The morning meeting runs from Today’s review.
The chasing
The ladder switches on with your thresholds. Customers get their links for updates and approvals.
The owner
Shipment risk becomes your first page of the day. Ask ShipLoom switches on. The ERP export keeps orders in step each morning.
By day 30: “Where is it?” is answered before it is asked. Late work is found at shift end, not at the vessel. And your next order is accepted on a date you can keep.
Keep your ERP. Add the brain.
See ShipLoom on your own orders. Bring one ERP export to a 30-minute call, and we will show you which shipments are in danger and why.