It is one table.
One habit.
One cut length.
Cut wastage tracked per table, per branch, per roll — because in this business the yield is the margin, and nobody writes it down.
An executive briefing
← → to advance
FABRIC & TEXTILE · RUNNING RIGHT NOWThe AI that counts
the metre.
Metre-level sell-through, cut wastage and roll ageing — by branch and by cutting table, narrated by Iris.
Cut yield0%
Cut wastage0%
Repeat trade buyers0%
IrisWatching
LIVE · ILLUSTRATIVE DATA — one hero line and no hero tiles were supplied for this sector; the three tiles above are taken from the sector board.
WHAT A CUT COUNTER CANNOT HOLD IN ITS HEADThe yield is the margin.
Nobody writes it down.
Fabric is sold by the metre and lost by the centimetre. A cut that runs a little long, a remnant that will never sell, a lot change nobody noticed — none of it appears on a P&L line called wastage.
per table, per branch, per roll
Cut wastage tracked — because in this business the yield is the margin.
Iris logs the wastage nobody writes down.
a cut that spans two batches is stopped before the cloth is cut
Every roll traced to its dye lot in under a second, so, not after it is made up.
Iris sees the shade drift the eye will not.
ageing lots routed to clearance while they are still worth something
Metres by colourway modelled before the design run is placed, and.
Iris sizes the run before the mill does.
The first card is the sector line as supplied. The second and third are written from this briefing's own screens — two further hero lines were not included in the source page.
THE BOARD · FOUR LENSES, LIVE · LOOM & LOT · 38 BRANCHESEvery branch
on one board.
LIVE · PREMIUM SUITING · WASTAGE 4.1% ABOVE COUNTER AVERAGE
Financial
watch
41.7%
Gross margin
CUT WASTAGE 3.6%
Customer
▲ 2 pts
43%
Repeat trade buyers
BASKET METRES 6.4
Operational
at target
96.4%
Cut yield
ROLL AGEING 21D
AI-Learning
▲ improving
90.2%
Run-size forecast accuracy
MODELS LIVE 6
LIVE · ILLUSTRATIVE DATA — Loom & Lot is a demonstration brand, not a deployed client. This is the only sector in the line whose financial lens is the one on watch, and cut wastage sitting directly beneath it is the reason why.
THE SAME BOARD, THREE LAYERS DEEPRules fire. Models predict.
Iris explains.
L1 · Zen Rules — deterministic thresholds Rule
| Rule | Threshold | Now | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | ≥ 39% | 41.7% | watch |
| Repeat trade buyers | ≥ 40% | 43% | clear |
| Cut yield | ≥ 92% | 96.4% | clear |
| Run-size forecast accuracy | ≥ 86% | 90.2% | clear |
L2 · Zen Models — what is predicted
| Model | Predicts | Accuracy |
|---|---|---|
| Cut yield | wastage by table | 91.6% |
| Run sizing | metres by colourway | 89.9% |
| Lot ageing | clearance risk | 90.5% |
L3 · Ask Iris — the same board, in words What just
What just moved?
Yield rule fired — one branch, one cutting table, started 9 days ago.
Why, and what do I do?
Re-brief that table — recovers the yield inside a fortnight.
Cut yield reads 96.4% against a 92% threshold and looks untouchable. The model reads yield by table rather than by estate, which is the only resolution at which a single cutting counter can be seen at all. Iris then dates it — nine days ago — and prices the fix as a briefing rather than a project. Left alone it is 0.4 margin points across the quarter.
Pick one. It opens
the real screen.
Metre-level sell-through, cut wastage and roll ageing — by branch and by cutting table.
Balanced Scorecard
FOUR LENSES, LIVE
Point of Sale
LIVE TILL, IRIS UPSELL
Numerus · CFO
BALANCED, NOT ESTIMATED
Nexus · Supply Chain
FORECAST, PROCUREMENT, LOGISTICS
Motus · Operations
STANDARDS, ASSETS, ENERGY
Manus · Workforce
ROSTER, PAYROLL, COMPLIANCE
Zentallio Vision
FOOTFALL, QUEUES, SAFETY
Point of Sale
A fabric till does not scan a product, it measures one. The unit of sale is a length cut in front of the customer, and everything downstream — yield, traceability, remnant value — depends on that moment being recorded properly.
The cut is the transaction.
Metres sold, metres cut and metres left on the roll are three different numbers, and the till records all three.
The roll and its lot go with the sale.
Which roll, which dye lot, which table — captured at the counter, which is the only reason traceability takes 0.8 seconds later.
Iris knows what finishes the order.
Lining, interfacing, thread and trims are the attach in this category, and 6.4 basket metres is how the prompt is judged.
6.4
Basket metres, live
12
Core POS solutions, standard
LIVE TILL · IRIS UPSELL
FOUR LENSES, LIVEBalanced Scorecard
Margin, repeat trade buyers, cut yield and run-size accuracy on one live board — with Iris naming the cutting table that is quietly costing a fraction of a point a quarter.
Yield sits directly under margin.
In fabric they are the same conversation: 41.7% gross margin and 3.6% cut wastage are two views of one number.
Trade buyers are a different customer.
43% repeat trade at 6.4 basket metres behaves nothing like retail footfall, and the board reports them as their own lens.
The fourth lens audits the AI.
Run-size forecast accuracy sits beside margin, because in this business a mis-sized run becomes ageing stock rather than a lost sale.
41.7%
Gross margin, on watch
21d
Roll ageing
FINANCE · L2
BALANCED, NOT ESTIMATEDNumerus · CFO
Trial balance, P&L, balance sheet and cash flow on a ledger that ties out to the penny — across 38 branches whose largest asset is cloth on a roll, valued by the metre and ageing by the day.
Wastage is a cost line, not a rounding difference.
3.6% of every metre cut has to appear somewhere, and a ledger that cannot see it reports a margin it does not have.
Remnants are stock with a value.
£8,400 of recoverable offcut is inventory, and treating it as scrap is a decision rather than an accounting fact.
Ask Iris for any number.
Any branch, any roll, any lot, any period — answered in the conversation rather than a week after close.
38
Branches on one ledger
£8,400
Remnant value, recoverable
FINANCE
FORECAST, PROCUREMENT, LOGISTICSNexus · Supply Chain
A design run is a commitment to a quantity of one colourway that cannot be re-cut later. Buy it short and the range is broken; buy it long and it ages on a roll at twenty-one days and counting.
Metres by colourway, before the mill runs.
Run sizing at 89.9% is the last decision that can still be changed, because a dye lot cannot be topped up to match.
Ageing is a clock, not a status.
Lot ageing at 90.5% flags clearance risk while the cloth is still worth moving, rather than when it is already dead stock.
Routing beats discounting.
Iris prices moving an ageing lot to the branch that sells it against marking it down where it stands.
89.9%
Run-sizing accuracy, by colourway
1,240
Rolls live across the estate
SUPPLY CHAIN
STANDARDS, ASSETS, ENERGYMotus · Operations
The cutting table is the machine in this business. It is also the least instrumented surface in the shop, which is exactly why a nine-day-old habit can cost a quarter of a margin point before anyone notices.
The table is the unit of measurement.
Yield reported per table rather than per branch is the difference between a number you can act on and a number you can only quote.
Standards are a briefing, not a retraining programme.
Most yield loss is one habit at one table, and it is corrected in a fortnight when it is found in a fortnight.
Iris watches the exception, not the routine.
The thirty-seven branches cutting to standard stay quiet; the one that is not is named and dated.
Per table
Yield measured, not per branch
9 days
Since the habit started
OPERATIONS
ROSTER, PAYROLL, COMPLIANCEManus · Workforce
Cutting is a skill with a measurable output, which makes this one of the few retail floors where an individual's technique shows up directly in gross margin.
Yield is attributable.
Cut quality belongs to a table and a shift, so coaching goes to the person who needs it rather than to a whole branch meeting.
Trade counters need different cover.
A trade buyer taking 6.4 metres is a longer transaction than a retail cut, and the roster should know which counter is which.
Hours, payroll and compliance on one record.
Who worked, where, at what rate — without a second spreadsheet per branch.
38
Branches, one roster
One table
Where the coaching goes
WORKFORCE
EVERY SOLUTION · FABRIC & TEXTILEEvery solution,
on the real screen.
Grouped by what they act on. Pick one and it runs.
At the cut counter · 3 solutions — rolls, cuts and
At the cut counter · 3 solutions — rolls, cuts and remnants as they happen
Thresholds that fire on the shift the breach happens — no model lag, no waiting for a report.
Roll, lot & dye-batch traceability
L1 · COVERAGE
Cutting-table productivity
L1 · DISTRIBUTION
Mill-to-outlet clearance routing
L1 · ROUTING
Across the branches · 3 solutions — runs, lots and
Across the branches · 3 solutions — runs, lots and where they should go
Modelled early enough to act on, with the cause named and the move costed.
Cut-length yield & remnant recovery
L2 · CAPACITY
Design-run & colourway planning
L2 · SIGNAL GRID
Seasonal & festive drop planning
L2 · ROUTING
Plus 12 core POS solutions, standard across every Zentallio retail sector — detailed later in this briefing.
L1
Iris · Intelligence layer 01How Iris enforces the rules.
Thresholds that fire on the shift the breach happens (the “Zen Rules” layer) — the roll and its lot, the table and its yield, the ageing stock and where it should go. Three solutions run on this layer.
9 DAYS AGO
RULE FIRED
Yield rule breached
One branch, one cutting table. Waste at 7.7% against an estate average of 3.6% — and 11.4% of it on cuts under two metres. Left alone it is 0.4 margin points across the quarter.
IRIS · L1 BRANCH 07
Iris · L1 · Zen Rules 01 / 03Roll, lot & dye-batch traceability
Signals / Roll, lot & dye-batch traceability · Loom & Lot
LIVE · ILLUSTRATIVE DATA
0.8 s
trace time
roll to dye lot
3
cuts split a lot
today
1,240
rolls live
38 branches
100%
rolls scanned
on receipt
Cuts spanning more than one dye lot · today Order
| Order | Lot A | Lot B | Metres | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORD-3312 Suiting | D-118 | D-121 | 9.5 m | shade risk |
| ORD-3318 Shirting | S-771 | S-774 | 6.0 m | shade risk |
| ORD-3324 Velvet | V-233 | V-233 | 4.2 m | single lot |
| ORD-3330 Lawn | L-402 | L-409 | 12.0 m | same batch |
| Other 41 cuts | — | — | 186 m | single lot |
ΔE 3.1 — visible
Shade drift between lots — measured
D-118 vs D-121
S-771 vs S-774 ΔE 2.4 — visible
L-402 vs L-409 ΔE 0.7 — safe
Tolerance ΔE 1.5
Anything above ΔE 1.5 shows under showroom light
Iris · what to do
Two cuts today span lots with measurable shade drift above tolerance — a suiting order at ΔE 3.1 will show as two different fabrics once it is made up. The customer will not see it in the shop; they will see it at the first fitting, and by then the cloth is cut.
Hold the two cuts Source single lot Show lot map
Iris · L1 · Zen Rules 02 / 03Cutting-table productivity
The cutting table is where the margin is made and lost, and in most fabric businesses it is measured by branch, by month, in aggregate — which is exactly the resolution at which a single bad habit becomes invisible.
Yield is attributed to the table and the shift, not to the branch, because a branch average of 3.6% can hide a table running at 7.7%.
Metres cut, metres sold and metres left are reconciled per cut, so wastage is a measured figure rather than a difference nobody explains.
Throughput and yield are read together — a fast table losing cloth is not productive, it is expensive.
A drift is dated. Knowing a habit started nine days ago is what turns a coaching conversation into a specific one.
The same per-table record is what trains the yield model to 91.6% — the rule and the prediction read from one measurement.
L1 · DISTRIBUTION
Per table
Not per branch
91.6%
Wastage-by-table accuracy
Group — At the cut counter · “Rolls, cuts and remnants as they happen.”
Iris · L1 · Zen Rules 03 / 03Mill-to-outlet clearance routing
Cloth does not spoil, which is precisely the problem — nothing forces the decision. A roll can sit for a year looking like an asset while it quietly becomes a markdown, and roll ageing at twenty-one days is the number that keeps that honest.
Ageing is tracked per roll and per lot, so a slow line is visible while it still has full-price options.
Clearance is routed rather than announced — the branch or outlet that actually sells that cloth is identified before a discount is set.
Moving is priced against marking down, and the cheaper answer is chosen deliberately rather than by default.
Whole remaining lots move together where possible, because splitting an ageing lot across branches creates the shade problem the L1 screen exists to prevent.
What cleared, where and at what price feeds the ageing model, which is why clearance risk is predicted at 90.5%.
L1 · ROUTING
21d
Roll ageing, live
90.5%
Clearance-risk accuracy
Group — At the cut counter · “Rolls, cuts and remnants as they happen.”
L2
Iris · Intelligence layer 02How Iris predicts the yield.
Runs, lots and where they should go (the “Zen Models” layer) — modelled early enough to act on, with the cause named and the move costed. Three solutions run on this layer.
Cut wastage by branch, against the estate average
Branch Estate avg 3.6%
br 07 · br 12 · br 03 · br 21
Iris · L2 · Zen Models 01 / 03Cut-length yield & remnant recovery
Capacity / Cut-length yield & remnant recovery · Loom & Lot
LIVE · ILLUSTRATIVE DATA
96.4%
cut yield
target 97.5%
3.6%
wastage
+0.9 vs estate
£8,400
remnant value
recoverable
38
branches
group
Yield by branch · this period
| Branch | Cut | Waste | Remnant | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Branch 07 | 4,180 m | 7.7% | £2,100 | 2.1× estate |
| Branch 12 | 3,640 m | 4.1% | £1,180 | above |
| Branch 03 | 3,910 m | 3.2% | £940 | at estate |
| Branch 21 | 2,880 m | 2.8% | £610 | best |
| Other 34 branches | — | 3.4% | £3,570 | at estate |
Where Branch 07 loses it — by cut size
Cuts under 2 m 11.4% waste
2–5 m 6.2%
5–10 m 2.1%
Over 10 m 1.4%
Short cuts are where the yield goes
Iris · what to do
Branch 07 is not careless across the board — it loses 11.4% on cuts under two metres and matches the estate everywhere else. One table, one habit, one cut length. Setting a minimum-cut rule and pricing the offcut recovers most of the £2,100 without retraining anyone.
Set minimum-cut rule Price the remnants Show Branch 07 detail
Iris · L2 · Zen Models 02 / 03Design-run & colourway planning
A design run is the least reversible decision in the business. Metres by colourway have to be right before the mill runs, because a dye lot cannot be topped up later without becoming a different fabric.
Demand is modelled per colourway at 89.9%, not per design — the design sells, but the colourway is what you actually have to buy.
Under-running and over-running fail differently: one breaks the range mid-season, the other becomes an ageing roll at twenty-one days and climbing.
The shade-drift evidence from the L1 layer feeds the run size directly, because a lot that cannot be topped up has to be bought whole.
Branch-level demand shapes the split before the cloth arrives, rather than being corrected by transfers afterwards.
Every run scores itself against its own forecast, which is why run-size accuracy sits on the board at 90.2% and improving.
L2 · SIGNAL GRID
89.9%
Metres by colourway
Before
The mill runs
Group — Across the branches · “Runs, lots and where they should go.”
Iris · L2 · Zen Models 03 / 03Seasonal & festive drop planning
Fabric demand arrives in a rush and then stops. Wedding season, Eid, festive tailoring — each is a fixed date with a lead time measured in months, and the cloth has to be standing in the right branch before it starts.
Occasion demand is modelled as its own shape rather than smoothed into a monthly average that describes no actual week.
Festive cloth skews heavily by branch — the same design sells four times the metres in one catchment and sits in another.
Allocation is planned to the branch that will cut it, which is also how ageing is prevented rather than cleared later.
The buy, the roster and the cutting capacity are planned against the same dates, because a drop is a labour event as much as a stock one.
What did not sell becomes next season's routing input rather than next season's markdown.
L2 · ROUTING
Lumpy
Modelled, not averaged
6
Models live, this sector
Group — Across the branches · “Runs, lots and where they should go.”
L3
Iris · Intelligence layer 03 — liveAsk Iris · the cut
Not a screenshot — the actual agent, reading the same estate the rules and models write to.
ASK IRIS — FABRIC & TEXTILE
Live Balanced Scorecard
0%
Gross margin
0%
Cut yield
0%
Repeat trade buyers
0%
Run-size forecast accuracy ▲
No solution in this sector is filed under L3, because none needs to be — Iris queries all six, plus the twelve core POS solutions, in the same conversation.
STANDARD ACROSS ALL NINE RETAIL SECTORSTwelve core POS solutions,
in every sector.
The sector solutions sit on top of these. They are not an upsell and they are not configured per customer — every Zentallio retail deployment ships with all twelve.
Checkout
Returns & exchange
Store credit
Tender & reconciliation
Tax
Discount governance
Customer capture
Loyalty
Offline resilience
Cash management
Shift close
Audit trail
HOW IT'S IMPLEMENTEDImplementation,
run by Iris.
You configure a sector playbook, not a custom project. Iris applies it herself — agentically, from day one.
Onboarding is agentic.
Iris connects the roll file, the dye-lot register and the branch list directly — no manual data mapping.
Existing rolls are scanned in, not retyped.
Every roll on hand takes its lot and its ageing clock from receipt, which is what makes traceability real in week one.
Live in weeks, learning from day one.
Go-live is a configuration, not a project plan — and every cut from the first day trains the yield model.
Support starts
with Iris.
The first line of support is agentic — Iris resolves most of it herself. Our engineers pick up from there.
Layer 1 — Iris, 24/7.
Configuration questions, anomalies and routine issues resolved directly, instantly.
Layer 2 — our engineers.
Anything Iris can't close escalates automatically to a Zentallio engineer.
No blank tickets.
Every escalation arrives with Iris's own diagnosis — engineers start from an answer.
The metre, counted.
Yield read
per table
Not per branch, where it hides
A habit found
in days, not quarters
And dated, so it can be corrected
Shade drift caught
before the cut
Not at the first fitting
Remnants priced
as stock
Not swept up as scrap
Modelled outcome figures for this sector were not included in the source page. When supplied they replace these four cards and carry the standard disclaimer: modelled from pilot assumptions & comparable benchmarks — not yet a deployed-client result. All screen data in this briefing is labelled live & illustrative.
WHERE IT LEAKS, HOW IRIS RESPONDSWhere margin leaves
a centimetre at a time.
Where it breaks 01 Yield averaged across a branch,
Yield averaged across a branch, so one table at 7.7% disappears into an estate figure of 3.6% that looks like a target being met.
A cut that spans two dye lots, sold without comment, and seen for the first time at the customer's fitting — when the cloth is already cut.
Offcuts swept up as scrap when £8,400 of them across the estate are stock with a price.
How Iris responds L1 Every roll traced to its lot
Every roll traced to its lot in 0.8 seconds, yield attributed per table and per shift, and ageing lots routed before they need discounting.
Wastage by table at 91.6%, metres by colourway at 89.9%, clearance risk at 90.5% — so the cause is named, not guessed.
“Why, and what do I do?” — re-brief that table, and the yield comes back inside a fortnight.
0.4 points
of quarterly margin, held by one cutting table on cuts under two metres — a habit nine days old, found while cut yield read 96.4% against a 92% threshold.
ONE PLATFORM, TWO LINESThe same spine,
a different floor.
Fabric & Textile is sector seven of nine in Fashion Retail. The layers, the seven products and Iris herself are the same ones running across ten Food & Beverage sectors.
01 Apparel & RTW 02 Ethnic & Bridal 03 Kids & Teen 04 Sportswear 05 Footwear 06 Cosmetics 07 Fabric & Textile 08 Home Textiles 09 Marketplace
01 Quick Service 02 Casual Dining 03 Fine Dining 04 Café & Bakery 05 Ice Cream & Desserts 06 Beverages & Drinks 07 Health & Wellness 08 Cloud Kitchen 09 Institutional & B2B 10 Niche & Experience
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