Sourcing Countries Compared
You build a standing map of why apparel-producing places differ, instead of making a single decision. Twenty-four quotes across four origins show the spread inside one origin is 2.97 times the spread between them. You then build the map row by row: cloth, labour, infrastructure, category, and what each would take to change.
Published by Merchandising Academy · First lesson free to read
Course value
What will you be able to do?
Work outcome
You can place your own factory in the global picture, explain what changes commercially between CMT, FOB, and ODM, and argue which buyers and which products you are genuinely positioned to win.
Who it is for
Factory, supplier, brand and buying-office teams.
What you will produce
You build a standing origin map. You sort every row into country, cluster, or factory. You put an evidence class and a date against each. You find the labour-market floor under your own efficiency. You measure a transit row as a spread rather than an average. You take a cluster count from your own supplier list. And you set a horizon saying when each row must be read again.
Learning format
6 lessons · 0 templates · workplace calculations and decisions.
Lessons
- 01A comparison has three units, and only one of them is a country🔒19 min
- 02Does this place make its own cloth?🔒19 min
- 03Labour is a market, not a wage🔒18 min
- 04Infrastructure is a spread, not an average🔒18 min
- 05Why places become good at one thing🔒18 min
- 06The standing map, and what would have to change🔒18 min