CAREER IN GARMENT MERCHANDISING AFTER FASHION DESIGN COURSE
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Today's Discussion What is Merchandise? Roles and Responsibilities of Merchandisers Qualities of a Merchandiser Departments in Garment Industry For Merchandiser Conclusion
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What is Merchandise Merchandise means to buy and sell goods or products in any business. In the middle of 14th century the term came from AngloFrench Marchaundise, meaning business or trade of goods. The name was known in old days was "merchant". After the world War ll the word merchandising got the importance after the industrial revolution. Merchandising grew at that time due to the demands of products, Marketing and sales which helps to fulfil the requirements and needs of public. INIFDAhmedabad.com
1 Good with Technical Skills
Qualities of a Merchandiser
2 Good Planning Skills 3 Communication 4 Decision Maker
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Good With Technical Skills A merchant must have ample knowledge of production activities. When a buyer provides a garment design for bulk production a merchant must have the technical knowledge which can helps the production flow in a friendly and efficient manner. When a merchant has a fashion design knowledge; they can easily make understand the buyer if any changes require in the design or they can easily communicate with the designing team to make the design production friendly at the very early stage of sampling. Technical knowledge with pattern construction also helps to communicate with the pattern making department to get a costeffective production for the industry. INIFDAhmedabad.com
Good Planning Skills As a merchant the very first step is planning. In the garment and export industry a term using T&A means Time & Action Plan. Where a merchant plans every stage and make a proper strategy to complete the sampling and production in the given time frame. They plan when to start with the initial process and when the work has to get complete keeping extra time in hand, because into the garment industry many things can get delay. So, a good merchant always has another plan to get over the situation. INIFDAhmedabad.com
Communication Coordination and communicate is a big factor in every industry. A merchant does communication with various department and manage multiple area and work at a time, so they have to be very good with the communication. Merchandiser not only has to communicate with the buyer but also with the internal team so they must know how to deal with different people.
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Decision Maker As an example many times it happens when we get stuck due to some shortage of raw materials or due to damage of raw materials chances occur where product get effected. The merchant has to be pro-active and must be a good decision maker who can take an immediate call which saves the time, energy and money of both buyer and the industry.
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Career of "Merchandiser" in Garment Industry
MA RKETING TEA M
DESIGNING/ DESIGNER
FABRIC DEPARTMENT
Marketing team brings order from different corner of the world.
Industry have their own designers who help to redesign the garment/order to help the production flow in a friendly manner.
Fabric Department responsible to arrange the raw yarns, dyed yarn, greige fabric, dyed fabric, printed fabric to the industry by coordinating with fabric mills.
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Printing Department: MOST OF THE LARGE-SCALE INDUSTRY HAVE THEIR IN-HOUSE PRINTING UNIT AND SOME INDUSTRY GIVE JOB-WORK/OUTSOURCE THE PRINTING JOBS.
Embroidery Department: MERCHANDISER CO-ORDINATE WITH THE EMBROIDERY DEPARTMENT TO MAKE UNDERSTAND THE EMBROIDERY REQUIREMENT ALSO PROVIDE THE RAW MATERIAL REQUIRED FOR EMBROIDERY.
Pattern Making Department: MERCHANT CO-ORDINATE WITH THE CAD TEAM BY PROVIDING REQUIRE MEASUREMENTS OF THE SAMPLE, ORDER QUALITY, QUALITY OF FABRIC AS WELL AS THE TRIMS AND ACCESSORIES.
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A CCESSO RIES DEPARTMENT Merchandiser provide the BOM (Bill of Material) to the department and co-ordinate with the department supplies of the goods and material to the sampling or production units.
SAMPLING DEPA RTMENT Merchandiser co-ordinate with the sampling team and get the samples done and take approval from buyer before moving to bulk production.
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PRO DUCTIO N DEPA RTMENT Merchandiser regularly keep following with the team to check the requirement flow and plan for next order placement.
Quality Department: THE QUALITY DEPARTMENT INVOLVES IN EACH AND EVERY STAGE AND WITH EVERY DEPARTMENT FROM THE STARTING. THEY KEEP AN EYE ON THE QUALITY OF THE PRODUCT AND KEEP UPDATING THE MERCHANT.
Warehouse: MERCHANT KEEP ALL THE RECORDS OF THE STOCK GOODS AND USE TO HELP INDUSTRY IF HE GETS ANY BUYER WHO PURCHASE REJECTED GOODS.
Dispatch Department: MERCHANT CO-ORDINATE WITH THE TEAM AND PROVIDE ALL THE REQUIRE INFORMATION LIKE SIZE OF THE PACKED GOODS, QUALITY, SHIPPING ADDRESS, BILLING ADDRESS, PRICE OF THE FINISHED GOODS, ETC.
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Conclusion:Merchandising is one of the reputed and interesting career options into a garment industry. One can keep learning new things every day as this is a creative field and keep changing as per the customer taste and trends. One who complete a fashion design course can choose Merchandising as a career option as it has many areas to explore and good career scope.
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