Axind AI-Costing

Accurate garment costings. In minutes.

AI-Costing generates structured, benchmarked costings from a techpack or product image — across multiple sourcing cities, ready to go straight into an RFQ.

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The problem

The costing process is broken in four specific ways.

The numbers exist — somewhere. Getting them right, getting them fast, and getting them before the decision has already been made is where the process breaks down.

01 It takes too long.

Half a day for something that should take thirty minutes. Development stalls waiting on numbers that should already exist — and by the time they arrive, the window to act has often closed.

02 It's person-dependent.

Two merchandisers produce two different costings for the same garment. Neither is benchmarked against anything reliable. Consistency depends on the individual, not the process.

03 It happens too late.

Traditional costing needs a finished techpack. By the time numbers are unfavourable, weeks of development are already spent. Teams need cost signals earlier — not a final verdict at the end.

04 Multi-city comparison doesn't happen.

Comparing Bangladesh, Vietnam and Turkey requires three separate processes and a spreadsheet. Most teams default to familiar sourcing locations — not the most commercially sound ones.

How it works

Drag, configure, generate. Done.

The same process for every garment, every sourcing location. No spreadsheets, no separate processes per city.

01 Drop in a techpack or a garment image.

Works from a finished techpack or a product photo — a reference, a buyer sample, a competitor garment. Costing can begin before the techpack exists.

02 Set your parameters.

Choose delivery terms, select sourcing cities, and draw from your existing PLM+ material catalogue for fabric and trim data.

03 Review costings across every city simultaneously.

Structured costings for every selected location, generated in parallel. Compare cities side by side and benchmark against your historical costings — in one view.

04 Send RFQs directly to vendors.

Push a finalised costing into a structured RFQ and send to multiple vendors in one step. From costing to vendor conversation — without leaving the system.

What changes

Costing stops being a bottleneck.

Every costing produced on the same benchmarked basis — same logic, same libraries, same standards. No variation between merchandisers, no version control issues.

Cost earlier in development.

A garment photo is enough to generate a costing — weeks before the techpack exists. Kill the wrong directions early. Commit time and capital to the right ones.

Evaluate every relevant sourcing location.

When it takes minutes instead of days, teams actually compare every option — not just the familiar ones. More rigour, same time investment.

Consistent output across your entire team.

Every costing produced on the same benchmarked basis — same logic, same libraries, same standards. No variation between merchandisers, no version control issues.

Stronger vendor negotiations.

Walk into every conversation knowing exactly what the number should be, backed by benchmarked data. Vendors respond differently when you arrive prepared.

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

A costing capability your competitors are still doing by hand.

The costing process is one of the last high-frequency tasks in product development still running on manual effort and individual judgement.

AI-Costing replaces that with a structured, benchmarked process — same logic, same libraries, same output quality every time. Sourcing decisions become easier to make and easier to defend.

Works from day one — no implementation required.

For teams already on PLM+, the material catalogue data is already there. No new setup. Drop in a techpack or image and start generating costings immediately.

Same process every time, regardless of garment complexity.

A basic t-shirt or a complex outerwear piece — the four steps are identical. The team stops managing exceptions and starts running a consistent process.

Platform

Connects to the full Axind system.

AI-Costing lives inside Axind PLM+ — where your product data and material catalogue already are. It also connects into SCM, so costing benchmarks flow directly into supplier engagement.

Get started

Stop costing by hand. Start costing by design.

Your garments, your sourcing cities, your PLM+ data. We'll show you AI-Costing in action in 30 minutes.

AI-Costing is part of Axind PLM+. See it inside PLM+ → Also available as part of Axind SCM.

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Axind AI-Costing

Accurate garment costings. In minutes.

The costing process is broken in four specific ways.

01

It takes too long.

02

It's person-dependent.

03

It happens too late.

04

Multi-city comparison doesn't happen.

Drag, configure, generate. Done.

01

Drop in a techpack or a garment image.

02

Set your parameters.

03

Review costings across every city simultaneously.

04

Send RFQs directly to vendors.