Clicarity Footwear
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You are short on 9s. When did that actually happen?

Where a size shortage really began. How long uppers actually sit at the closing unit. Which cutter is losing you the most leather.

One unit found sixteen orders a month discovered short at packing. The shortage had existed since cutting in almost every case.
Footwear manufacturers — order and line visibility live
As featured in PrintWeek India, April 2026 ↗

Three units. Each one counted by operation and never by size.

01 The size that was never made

An order is a size run — so many of each size, in each colour. Production happens by operation, not by size.

At packing you find you have plenty of 8s and not enough 9s. The shortage existed from cutting, and nobody saw it because nothing was counted by size until the box had to be filled.

Where size shortages were discovered
At cutting2 orders
At closing4 orders
At packing16 orders

Quantity by size is recorded at every operation, so a shortage appears at the operation that caused it.

16 orders → 4short at packing
Show me howFifteen minutes. We look at one run.
02 Uppers that went out and came back late

Closing, stitching and embroidery often sit with outside units. The uppers leave and stop being visible.

You call to ask, and the answer is a number that changes each time you call. Meanwhile the lasting line is planned around a date that was never real.

One order, in house against outside
Cutting2 days
At the closing unit9 days
Lasting and finishing3 days
Packing1 day

The outside unit updates its own step. It sees only what is with it.

9 days → 4at the closing unit
Show me howFifteen minutes. We add one unit.
03 Leather, and what was left of it

Leather is cut by area and every hide is different. Cutting yield decides whether the order made money.

Consumption is compared to estimate at the end of the order, by which point nothing can be done, and a cutter who is consistently wasteful is never identified.

Cutting yield by cutter, one month
Cutter A82%
Cutter B85%
Cutter C66%
Cutter D80%

Area issued and pieces cut are recorded per bundle and per cutter.

66% → 78%on the cutter who was losing most
Find out howBring last month. Fifteen minutes.

A size run is not one number. It is a dozen numbers that all have to be right.

Every order. Every size run. Every operation tracked.

This is how a print job moves through your business. Clicarity gives you live visibility at every phase — and flags delays before they become client calls.

01
Order & Pattern
3 stages
Order Received
Buyer order confirmed — style, colour, size ratio, quantity, delivery date.
✓ Clicarity: Job ID created per style-colour, size ratio logged, production planned
Pattern Making / Grading
Last and patterns made or graded per size ratio.
Material Planning
Upper leather/synthetic, lining, insole, outsole, and accessories planned.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: one component out of stock — entire size run held
02
Cutting & Preparation
4 stages
Upper Cutting / Clicking
Upper components cut from leather or synthetic using die or CNC.
✓ Clicarity: Pairs cut per size tracked — material utilisation visible
Lining & Insole Cutting
Lining and insole components cut to size.
Skiving / Preparation
Upper edges skived and prepared for stitching.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: skiving machine breakdown — stitching line starved
Component Bundling
Cut components bundled by size for stitching.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: wrong size in bundle — discovered at stitching, causing rework
03
Upper Making
3 stages
Stitching / Closing
Upper stitched on closing machines — multiple operations.
✓ Clicarity: Pairs completed per size tracked — bottleneck operator visible
Embroidery / Printing
Decorative elements added to upper where required.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: embroidery vendor late — upper making held
Upper QC
Stitched upper inspected for stitching quality, dimensions, and appearance.
✓ Clicarity: Rejection rate by size and operation tracked
04
Bottom Making & Lasting
4 stages
Sole Manufacturing / Procurement
Outsoles moulded or procured per style spec.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: outsole colour variation — size run held
Lasting
Upper lasted onto last — toe, waist, and heel lasting.
✓ Clicarity: Pairs lasted per size tracked — line balance visible
Sole Attaching
Outsole cemented and attached to lasted upper.
Last Removal & Finishing
Last removed, finishing applied — heel pad, toe puff, sock lining.
✓ Clicarity: Finished pairs per size confirmed before QC
05
QC & Dispatch
3 stages
Final QC
Finished shoes inspected for quality, size marking, and matching.
✓ Clicarity: Pass/fail tracked per size — rejection reason logged
Packing
Shoes packed in boxes — size ratio verified against order.
✓ Clicarity: Size-wise count confirmed against order before carton sealing
Dispatch
Order dispatched with packing list and delivery challan.
✓ Clicarity: Full order history from style receipt to dispatch preserved
""Wrong size ratios were dispatched twice in one month. No one caught it before packing. Now every size is counted at packing and reconciled against the order. No more short shipments.""
PR
Production Manager
Footwear Manufacturer — Agra, Uttar Pradesh
As featured in PrintWeek India, April 2026 — Vol 18, Issue 12 ↗ Also in Print Bulletin, May 2026 — Pages 20–21 ↗

What improves in footwear businesses using Clicarity

↓ 50%
Line stoppages from component shortage
↑ 40%
On-time dispatch rate
↓ 60%
Size ratio errors at dispatch
5 days
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Questions from footwear businesses

How does Clicarity work for a printing business specifically?
Clicarity is configured around your specific print workflow — pre-press, printing, finishing, dispatch — in your terminology. Every job gets a unique ID and moves through your defined stages. You see live status, timestamps, and alerts when a job sits too long at every stage. The Clicarity team builds everything for you. You go live in 5 days.
Does it work for both offset and digital printing?
Yes. Clicarity works for any print process — offset, digital, wide format, screen printing, or a combination. The stages are configured around your actual workflow. If offset jobs go through plate making and digital jobs skip that stage, both can be tracked correctly under the same system.
Can it track material wastage at each stage?
Yes — with the Multi Licence. At every stage, your team logs quantity in and quantity out. Clicarity calculates the loss automatically. You see wastage by stage, by job, live — not at month-end when nothing can be done about it.
Will my press operators actually use it?
Yes. The update screen has two fields — Job ID and status. Under a minute. No training needed. GP Offset's entire team was using it from day one, including floor workers who had never used a software system before.

See every order. Every size. Before the shipment goes short.

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