Merchandising Process of a Garments Industry?

The Merchandising process with correspondence of buyers and merchandiser. In the very fast there is e-mail communication with the buyer. The buyers send a mail with the design specification to the merchandiser to prepare the sample and costing. Then the prepared sample and costing of the sample is sending to the buyer through mail. If the sample is approved by the buyer then it is the turn for negotiate the costing. After settle the price, the buyer sends contract and order sheet to the Factory and confirm the delivery time and way. During the time of confirming the order, the buyer opens L/C. The sample development and other important tasks of Factory are elaborately describe below-

1 Sample Development:

In merchandising process at first a mail is received from the buyer with a sketch, details of design are mentioned in this sketch. With the sketch the buyer send the measurement chart. The buyer mentions the fabric details, washing instructions, trims details etc. in the mail.

If the buyer required any special type of fabric which is not available with the garment merchandiser, they swatch for the merchandiser’s convenience. After receiving the sketch and measurement chart from the buyer, merchandiser develops the sample according to the buyer’s requirement and sends it to the buyer

2 Receive L/C document from buyer:

After pricing negotiation finally gets the order from buyer it receive an LC also. Both the parties must be open a LC where various terms and conditions must be issued like name of buyer, country name, negotiable buyer bank, payment system, production system, delivery period, quantity, name of the port address, details about shipping etc.

 3 Transfer Master L/C on the name of selected suppler:

After receiving the LC the merchandiser open a LC on his own company. Once the company is confirmed that the supplier has the ability to do the work properly then they negotiate the price. When the price is set with the suppler the commercial department immediately transfers the master LC in the name of supplier.

4 PO Sheet:

Buyers confirm the order sending a signed contract sheet by mail. When the sample, pricing, quality, delivery, time, and schedule etc. can satisfy the buyers then they confirm by sending this type of signed contract sheet.

5 Place order to suppliers for production:

After receiving the contract sheet the merchandiser takes all the preparation for production. Sometimes few buyers provide production accessories. If the buyer instructs to collect different accessories then the merchandiser negotiate with the supplier. When the enter requirements are ready then the merchandiser of Graphics Textiles Ltd start production according to the sample and other  mention in the contract sheet.

6 Quality Control:

Quality control that’s mean production control is the most important function of garment production. It is highly related to satisfy the buyer. A Textiles Ltd is very popular in this prospective. To control the quality of the merchandiser gives the authority to the production manager. A line chief and few supervisors control each line and provide instructions. Here the quality controller supervises the manufacturing process to maintain the quality. Under the QCthere is some quality inspector to check the production within each line. After washing the garments are checked in the finishing department. In this garments every process are checked part by part. If there find any problem then the garments repair again in this way the quality of the garments are maintain in A Textiles Ltd. The production team of the A Textiles Ltd is very much strong for quality production.

7 Monitor the SGS test:

Finished products are washed a per buyer’s instruction. Sometimes different types of chemical are used in garments washing. There is a high possibility that the washed garments may contain some kinds of harmful germs for the skin especially for the child’s skin. For this reason the garments are sends for SGS test to make sure that weather the garments contain any kind of harmful germs or not. Graphics Textiles Ltd strictly handles the SGS test.

8 Packing the garments:

The garments are packed after washing and final checking in the finishing line. Before packing their need some accessories like price ticket, hand tag, poly bag, carton sticker etc. During packing buyer instructions must be followed. The packing must be prepared according to the ratio and style number.

9 Final Inspection:

After washing and packing the product are finally inspected by the senior quality controller of buying house or buyer. At this time all responsibility pressured on merchandiser. If they satisfied after inspection then the product is as ok for shipment.

10 Liaison with the shipping lines:

This is the final step of merchandising. In this step commercial manager helps the merchandiser to maintain liaison with shipping lines. The supplier performs all the functions of shipment. There are different functions are done by the commercial manager like UD collection, CNF for shipping.