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Short definitions of the terms used across Vestis Labs, from styles and colourways to production orders, stock and digital IDs.

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  • Designer
  • Product developer
  • Production manager
  • Warehouse and inventory
  • Merchandiser and e-commerce
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Under review. This page is published while we check it against the live app, so some details may have changed.

These are the words you meet in the app, in the way the app uses them. Names in bold match what you see on screen.

Design and development

  • Brand: Your company's workspace in Vestis Labs. A user can belong to more than one brand and switch between them.
  • Collection: A container that groups related styles, for example by season or drop. You find it under Collection & Styles → Collection.
  • Style: One design record, with its specifications, construction details, materials and imagery. Styles live inside a collection.
  • Colourway: A colour variant of a style. Costs, prices and margins are worked out per colourway, and the app shows it as a colour option on a style.
  • Season: A period you assign to collections and styles. Seasons are managed under Settings → Collection & Style and used as a filter in lists and reports.
  • Style status: Where a style stands. Your brand defines its own statuses in Settings, and each style also moves through a development workflow from created to completed.
  • Design & Development: The tab on a style where its design inputs, such as prototype, 3D sample, tech pack and visualisation, are uploaded, versioned and approved.
  • Tech pack: The set of specifications a factory needs to make a style. Its parts include the overview, the Bill of Material and the Measurements.
  • BOM (Bill of Material): The list of every item needed to build a product, with its quantities and costs.
  • Size chart: A table of measurements for a style that defines its fit and sizing. In the app it is built from measurement cards in the Measurements library and shown on the tech pack Measurements tab.
  • Size range: The set of sizes a style is made in, managed under Settings → Size Range.

Library and costing

  • Library: The brand's reusable resources: Materials, Measurements and Color Palette.
  • Material: A fabric, trim or other raw material in your Materials library, with its supplier details and specifications. Styles link to materials through the BOM.
  • Colour palette: Your brand's approved colour library, used for consistent colour reference across styles and materials.
  • Cost, price and margin: A style's costing, its retail and wholesale prices, and the margin between them. You can set a target margin in Settings and compare it with real margins in reports.

Sampling and production

  • Sample: A physical or digital sample requested from a supplier for a style, tracked in Sampling with a status, a due date and approvals.
  • Supplier: A partner that makes or supplies something for you, such as a factory, mill or trim maker. Suppliers are managed under Management → Supplier.
  • Tier: A level of the supply chain, from Tier 0 (brands and retailers) to Tier 4. See Understanding the fashion supply chain.
  • Order aggregation: Merging wholesale orders into factory-ready production orders, grouped by factory.
  • Production order: An order placed with a factory, with quantities by size, dates and stock destination. The app also calls these purchase orders.
  • Ex-factory date: The agreed date an order leaves the factory. Production is running late when this date has passed and the order has not shipped.
  • Shipping and tracking: The step where finished units, samples or materials are shipped, split across destinations, and followed until delivery.
  • Material production: The same order flow for raw materials: you order from a supplier, ship, receive and hold them as stock.

Stock

  • Stock overview: The on-hand, reserved and incoming quantities for every SKU in every warehouse.
  • Receiving: Confirming the delivered quantity against an order, so incoming stock becomes on-hand.
  • Stock allocation: Assigning available or reserved stock to clients, warehouses or Shopify, then picking it.
  • SKU: The code that identifies one sellable variant of a style. The code generator in Settings builds codes automatically from a formula.
  • Warehouse: A location that holds stock, managed under Management → Warehouse.

Publishing and compliance

  • Certificate: A record of a certification, linked to materials and suppliers and backed by uploaded documents.
  • Institute: An organisation that issues or oversees certificates, such as a certification body. Institutes are managed under Management → Institute.
  • Barcode: A printable code for a product, made from a template under Barcode → Manage Templates.
  • Digital ID: A digital identity for a style that consumers can open, for example by scanning it. It is generated automatically for styles on plans that include the feature, and its pages can be customised.
  • Product passport: The style's passport tab, which shows the product's data for transparency and traceability.
  • DPP (Digital Product Passport): The passport as a compliance document. The app can check how ready a style is for it and export the passport.
  • Showroom: A branded view of your collections and styles that you can share with invited buyers.
  • Atlas: The Vestis Labs product for enriching your product data and tracking how visible it is to AI. Content it writes back for you to review appears under Collection & Styles → Atlas Enrichments.

Reports

  • Widget: One report on the Reports and Insights board, for example Samples Overdue.
  • View: A saved arrangement of widgets on your board. You can keep up to 12 views.