Easy steps to learn - Jacket or Garment Merchandising

Apparel Merchandising:-

Merchandising process involves the production of designs and distribution of final product to end users. In other sentence -A person who deals with product or merchandise is called as merchandiser. Merchandisers are working closely with designers to ensure that designs will be affordable and desired by the target market.

Garment merchandising can be divide into two types:

1. Retail merchandising:-Retail merchandisers manage store allocation and maximise the sales.

2. Product merchandising: Product merchandiser manage the flow of materials to suppliers and flow of product to store and then pass the control to retail merchandiser.

How to learn product merchandising: Go through the below steps to learn product merchandising of garment in easy way.

Step-1
Product Study:-
Merchandiser have to study the product before dealing with it. If the product is garment then go through the below information about product.
* Product design and specification.
* Garment fit or spec detail
* Construction detail
* Labelling and Packing Information
* Trims and there consumption

Step-2

BOM preparation: As an apparel merchandiser prepare the bill of material or list of material for a product. Garments BOM can categories into four divisions -Cutting,stitching,finishing and packing.

Cutting Bill of Material List -Includes Fabrics,Contrast Fabrics,Linings, Pocketing and Types of Interlinings.Consumption work out need for all material with the help of cad or cutting team for this division.

Stitching BOM:- Each and every material which require  to complete the design as per construction requirement listed in this category. Material list can be short and long as per design and technical requirement of the product.

Finishing and Packing BOM:- Finishing and packing of garment need several trims as per customer requirement. Merchandiser have to get all information about packaging from buyers. It includes branding, retail price,product safety and etc.

Step-3
TNA Making:- Merchandiser have to make TNA(Time and action plan) sheet to execute and order. They have to work closely with each dept and customer to fix the time line of each process in this sheet. As per TNA time line merchandiser have to commit the delivery date of an order to customer or as per delivery date asked by customer has to make TNA(depends upon customer comfort).This sheet includes activity like materials procurement,sample submission, production planing,etc.

Step-4
Cost break down(CBD) Making:- Cost factor is playing main role for any business. Merchandiser need to make proper cost break down sheet for a product to Negotiate with customer and supplier. To make a proper CBD merchandiser have to get below information.
* Trims cost
* Man power cost
* Finance cost
* Transportation and documentation cost
* Margin
* Other cost

Step-5
Materiel Or Trims Study:- As a merchandiser trims information is necessary to deal with product. For each and every trims need to collect below information to offer it to customer for selection and after selection its help to purchase the material.
* Material Type
* Material Composition
* Material Construction
* Material Color
* Material Size
* Material source
* Article No
*Etc

Step-6
Trims Purchasing:- After taking approval from customer, merchandiser have to generate Purchase requirement of each material with the help of BOM. Stock availability information need to check before raising Purchase order. Purchasing follow up from supplier can be taken care by purchase team or by merchandiser depends upon organisation setup.

Step-7
Co-ordination and Follow up- Merchandiser is working as bridge between production unit and buyers. They have to work closely along with all dept and customer to pass out the information to each others to meet customer requirement. Merchandiser have to involve in all production activity to ensure on time production. They also need to know about quality stander of customer to check each activity to ensure quality product supply.

Step-8
Shipping and Documentation:- Shipment or dispatch is the last step of garment merchandising. For arranging dispatch of material merchandiser have to collect below data for proper documentation and safe delivery of product.

* Consignee address and details
* Shipment mode
* Shipment term
* Shipping Method
* Shipment value
* Shipment wt
* Shipment volume
* Logistic information
* Payment Term
* Shipper information
*Etc

How to make line plan for garment production

Line plan:Daily production target plan of multiple styles in order to meet delivery date of each style by keeping in knowledge about line capacity as per construction features and order quantity of each styles.  Line plan is the key aspect in garment planning division. Planning section is making the production out cum plan as per line capacity in order to achieve delivery date. Planner needs to do backward and forward planning based on lead time.Mostly line planning is made after discussion with team of Production and IE.

In order to make target achievable line plan you should have to keep below require data when making a line plan.
1. Order detail sheet
2. No Of Line and there capacity
3. Style SAM as per quality stander
4. Average manpower absenteeism percentage
5. Production lead time of an order
6. Holiday list

See below line plan chart to understand all above requirement sequence wise in order to make a line plan.

1. Order detail sheet:Order Detail sheet is the first requirement for making a line plan in order to take decision about line selection for an order as per there quantity and production lead time considering delivery date.

Order No	Category	Order qty	Delivery date
MARITO	Trouser	6400	31st July
Jet king	Trouser	33000	31st Aug
Merina	Trouser	2336	3rd Aug
Elvis	Trouser	5400	4th Aug
Ertica	Trouser	6000	19th Aug
Stylek	Trouser	3240	28th Aug

2. No Of Line and there capacity: Its very important for a planner to know about No of production line available for total order in hand.Capacity of line is require to set daily production target of an order.Average Line capacity chart can be prepare as below.

Line No.	No. of Operator	Minutes/Day	Line Efficiency	Absenteeism %	Capacity available
		(Daily working Hrs. X 60)
Line 1	30	480	40%	10%	5184
Line 2	28	480	50%	10%	6048
Line 3	32	480	55%	10%	7603.2
Line 4	32	480	45%	10%	6220.8
Line 5	25	480	39%	10%	4212

 

3. Style SAM/SMV : Stander allowed minute or stander minute value of  style helps a planner to fix daily target qty of a line by calculating production rate through it.

4. Average manpower absenteeism percentage: Man power absenteeism is common in garment or any other industries.Line capacity can't complete without knowing absenteeism in order to make actual capacity of production line.

5. Production lead time of an order: Production lead time helps to select no of production lines for  style as per there qty to complete production on time.

Order No.	Loaded to Line No.	Order Quantity	Style SMV	Capacity Required (Minutes)	Capacity available per day	Capacity Required (Days)
MARITO	Line-1	6400	28	179200	5184	35
Jet king	Line-2	33000	25	825000	6048	136
Merina	Line-3	2336	20	46720	7603.2	6
Elvis	Line-4	5400	10	54000	6220.8	9
Ertica	Line-5	6000	18	108000	4212	26
Stylek	Line-1	3240	28	90720	5184	18

 

6. Holiday list: List of holiday need to know while making line plan order to extend the date if there any holiday in between.

Style change production lose need to be consider while making a line plan, for example-  If line-1 per day capacity for style is 400pcc. But production starting days (first,second and third day) the output will be in ascending orders like- First day-50pcs, second day-150 pcs, and third day-300pcs after that out cum will be 400pcs/day.