System and method for managing the alteration of garments

A garment alteration ticket terminal for entry of information related to alteration of existing standard garments to conform to customer requirements, the garment alteration ticket terminal comprising:

• a memory, an input and a display;
• an alteration ticket data structure stored in the data storage, the alteration ticket data structure being associated with a standard garment to be altered and defining a sales receipt data field, a ticket data field, a garment data field, a fitting data field and an alterations data field;
• means coupled to the input for prompting a user for garment data, alteration data, sales receipt data, fitting data and ticket data for the standard garment to be altered, and for storing said data in corresponding fields as an entry in the alteration ticket data structure;
• means coupled to the memory for generating an electronic alteration ticket corresponding to the entry in the alteration ticket data structure, the entry comprising the sales receipt data, the ticket data, the garment data, and the alteration data;
• and
• means for periodically communicating the electronic alteration tickets stored in the memory via a communications interface.

A method for determining the cost for operating a garment alterations workroom, the method comprising:

• determining hours of labor scheduled for a respective employee in the garment alterations workroom multiplied by the respective employee's cost per hour to produce a wage cost;
• adjusting for overtime at an overtime rate to produce an overtime cost;
• multiplying by an appropriate multiplier for employee benefits to produce a benefit cost;
• and
• summing the wage cost, the overtime cost and the benefit cost for each employee.

A method for allocating the cost of operating a garment alterations workroom across departments within a store, the method comprising:

• determining total garments and repairs completed within each department;
• determining the total minutes completed (alterations and repairs) within each department;
• calculating percentage of completed garments by each department;
• calculating percentage of completed minutes by each department;
• and
• allocating the cost of operating the garment alterations workroom according to at least one of the percentage of completed garments and the percentage of completed minutes.