Sourcing Fabric and Trims: the Quotation, the Minimum and the Clock
Two mills quote the same cloth for one 18,600-piece order, and the cheaper quotation costs USD 10,986 more. You turn both into one delivered cost per garment. You price a fourth colourway against the dye lot and the trim minimums that really govern it. And you find the lead time whose clock starts somewhere nobody looked.
Published by Merchandising Academy · First lesson free to read
Course value
What will you be able to do?
Work outcome
You can build a defensible cost sheet for a real style and know, for every line on it, where the number came from and what happens to your margin if it is wrong.
Who it is for
Factory and supplier teams.
What you will produce
You build a six-row quotation comparison that puts two mills on one cost per garment. You build a minimums sheet that prices a colourway before you answer the buyer. And you build a trim card where every lead time names the event its clock starts on.
Learning format
3 lessons · 0 templates · workplace calculations and decisions.
Best taken after 8.1 Garment Costing. You can read this one without it. Some of the arithmetic will just have to be taken on trust.