Automating Blank Costs from S&S Activewear and SanMar
Automate blank costs from S&S Activewear and SanMar: live garment pricing feeds job costing and consolidated POs avoid the SanMar split-ship surprises.
Blank costs are the foundation of every quote, and they move. A style goes on sale, a color runs short, a supplier bumps pricing, and the number you memorized last quarter is now wrong. Quoting from stale garment costs is one of the quietest ways to quote a losing job.
Connecting your suppliers fixes the root cause. When S&S Activewear and SanMar feed live blank costs straight into your job costing, the price you quote reflects what the garment actually costs today.
Why manual blank costs go stale
Hand-maintained price lists are wrong the moment a supplier changes anything. Someone has to remember to update the catalog, and between updates you are quoting from numbers that no longer match. On thin jobs, a garment cost that is even a dollar stale can flip a healthy margin into a loss.
- Supplier pricing changes constantly with sales and availability.
- Manual catalogs are only as fresh as the last person who updated them.
- Stale blank costs quietly turn tight jobs into losing ones.
- Nobody notices until margins come in soft at month end.
Live costs feeding your quotes
PrintShopCRM connects to S&S Activewear and SanMar so blank costs come straight from the source into your job costing. When you build a quote, the garment cost is current, which means the margin flag on the job is based on real numbers rather than a remembered price from last season.
- Connect S&S Activewear and SanMar for live garment costs.
- Blank cost flows directly into the per-job margin calculation.
- Quotes reflect today's price, not a stale catalog entry.
- The margin flag you trust is built on real supplier data.
Consolidated POs and the SanMar split-ship trap
SanMar is notorious for splitting an order across warehouses, which turns one PO into several shipments and several freight charges. PrintShopCRM builds consolidated purchase orders so you order deliberately instead of getting surprised at the dock. Fewer split shipments means lower freight and less receiving chaos.
- Consolidated POs group your blank orders instead of scattering them.
- Deliberate ordering avoids SanMar splitting one order across warehouses.
- Fewer shipments means less freight and simpler receiving.
- POs tie back to the jobs that need the blanks.
Common Questions
Which suppliers can I connect for live blank costs?
You can connect S&S Activewear and SanMar so garment costs feed your job costing directly. That keeps the blank cost in every quote current instead of relying on a manually maintained price list.
How does this help my margins?
The margin flag on each job is only as accurate as the blank cost behind it. Live supplier pricing means the flag reflects what the garment actually costs today, so you do not quote a loser off a stale number.
What is the SanMar split-ship problem?
SanMar often splits a single order across multiple warehouses, creating several shipments and freight charges. Consolidated purchase orders let you order deliberately to avoid that, lowering freight and simplifying receiving.