Watch your scrap disappear.
Enter your stock sizes and a cut list. The same engine that plans every work order in Painless fills your remnants first, packs virgin stock by cost, and shows exactly what goes back on the rack — and what you were about to throw away.
// THIS IS THE SAME ENGINE THAT PLANS EVERY WORK ORDER IN PAINLESS — REMNANTS FIRST, THEN THE CHEAPEST STOCK MIX.
The policy a good cut man runs in his head — on every order, automatically.
Remnants first
Every usable drop on your rack gets checked before a fresh stick is opened. Smallest usable piece first, so the awkward short drops finally get burned down instead of aging into scrap.
Cheapest stock mix
Remaining cuts pack largest-first into each stock size you buy. The size with the lowest total material cost wins — and the final partial piece re-shops to a shorter, cheaper size when one fits.
Remnant vs scrap, called honestly
Leftovers at or above your minimum usable size return to stock — and cost you nothing. Drops below it are charged as scrap, so the numbers you see match the material you pay for.
In production this goes further: the optimizer plans across material profiles (the same extrusion stocked in three stick lengths, the same fabric in two roll widths), tracks every kept remnant as real inventory, suggests the exact remnant piece at pick time, and splices oversize panels into seamed strips. This page is the same engine with the database unplugged.
This runs on every work order. Automatically.
No spreadsheet, no cut-list math, no “ask Dave which drop to grab.” Orders come in, cut plans come out, remnants go back on the rack — tracked.