Role Of Merchandisers in garment or clothing industries.

Garment Merchandisers:-

Merchandising is the department which mediates marketing and production departments.Merchandiser is the interface between Buyer & Exporter. Merchandisers are accountable from order analysis to the shipment of goods as well payment settlement of the goods. So Merchandising is the very valuable department in the Apparel Industry and a merchandiser is plying very important role in garment or clothing industries.

If you are interested to be a part of Merchandising team then this articles about the role and responsibility of merchandiser will help you in this regards.

Garment merchandisers works responsibilities in apparel industry described as below:-

1.   Internal & external communication:A merchandiser has to communicate not only with the buyers but also with others such as suppliers, nominated factory owners, fabric manufacturers etc for Required  Material arrangements for product .

2.   Sampling:It is one of the most important task for all the apparel merchandisers. Here sample have to developed according to Market trends as well instruction from buyers specially for export houses. Different types of sampling responsibility is there for merchandisers, such as -Proto sample, fit sample, PP sample, Photo shoot Or Advertisement sample, sales man or marketing samples, size set sample, Shipment sample  etc.

3. Record sheets maintaining :An apparel merchandiser has to prepare various types of internal or external record sheet such as costing sheet,TNA sheet for customer as well for materials, capacity booking sheet, Internal order sheet, Bill of materials, tracibility record sheet, etc. Merchandiser should have to keep the long time record to get full fill the customer query. 

4.   Accessories & trims :After confirmation of a garment export order, a garment merchandiser has to book all the trims required for the product as well co-ordinate with supplier or purchase team for on time in house of materials as per planed PCD date. 

5.  Purchase order Generation:For small scale garment industries purchase order of all raw or finished materials raised by merchandiser only. For bigger export houses there is a separate purchase team whose taking care of material ordering as well in house follow up of goods as per merchandisers guide line .
6.   Approval Taking for lab dips of fabric or trims:It is the other important task of an apparel merchandiser. At first, lab dip should be done by maintaining buyer’s recommendation and submitted by the merchandiser to the buyer for its approval. If it’s ok then buyer approved it for running garment production.Before placing the bulk order of trims Merchandiser should have to take approval from buyer first.

7. PP Meetings: In garment or apparel industries pp meeting is compulsory task which is organized by the merchandiser. This meeting helps all dept to know about the requirement of product by customer to make the quality product by getting in issue on the time of production or after shipment. Merchandiser is taking care of all details to be circulate by releasing product file with customer instruction on final sample as well test report of fabric and other order details.

8. Guiding production and quality department:A garment merchandiser must have to make good relationship with the garment production and quality department for smooth and fault free production. This also creates a great impact on shipping the good quality product timely. Good Merchandiser should have the technical as well design knowledge about the product to deal with all dept. 

9.Final Inspections:Inspection should be done before dispatching product to buyer. Inspection procedure can be done by self,buyer or third party. Here merchandiser have to take responsibility of providing product details or approval details to inspector.
Merchandiser is sharing the final inspection report to customer and giving go ahead of shipment after buyer confirmation.

10. Shipping Mark Guide line: Shipping mark is valuable requirement for customer which represents the packing contain in carton box. Guide line instruction is shared by buyer to merchandisers and merchandiser is arranging the shipping mark instruction detail on carton pack goods by the help of printed carton box or by carton sticker.

11. OCR Preparation:- Order closing report have to prepared by merchandiser to check the profitability of project. This report also help in order to optimise the balance material in another product by knowing the correct balance stock report.

12. Payment Follow up: This is the last role of working part where merchandiser should follow for the balance payment after goods dispatch as per payment term agreed to customer.Merchandiser taking care of payment after dispatch of goods.