The 6 Way Is To Teach Independent Designers How To Choose Suppliers For Clothing Brands.

According to the world clothing shoes and hats net,

Brand always regards supply chain as a pain point for its survival and development.

In the previous column, we gave designers.

The number of production in the three stage is 300, 1000 and 5000 respectively.

The 300 stage is basically based on the designer's own workshop or foreign style, which is called workshop completion. In the 1000 stage, the workshop is almost too late to produce. Many designers are faced with the question of whether to expand the scale of the workshop. If the workshop is expanded, it will become a small factory rather than a brand. Obviously, the effort is wrong.

We believe that at this stage, the most important task for designer brand is to choose suppliers, then run in with suppliers, and finish 1000 orders on time and quality, and continue to advance to 5000 in the future.

After crossing 5000 passes, these designers will find that many suppliers depend on him to eat.

However, how to select suppliers is a pain in the designer's brand. We consulted the industry experts and synthesized their suggestions, and summarized the following suggestions for reference to young designers.

Factory product style matching

The more professional the factory is, the more subdivided, the first is the category subdivision, followed by the style segmentation, some factories are specialized in making silk fabrics, the workers' gestures are also fine, and some factories are made up of foreign middle and top grade contemporary price brands, and their technology and quality are all suitable for docking with designer brands.

Designers must find the corresponding suppliers according to their styles and fabrics that are often used, so as to reduce unnecessary running in time.

Understanding of design drawings

For designers who need to deal with numerous and complicated things, many times they just hand over a few sketches to the workers for proofing. Then, you have to look at the understanding ability of the sample workers in the factory to the design drawings.

If the original style of the factory is matched and the workers' ability of understanding is excellent, then the upper hand will be quicker, otherwise they will have to spend some time running in.

If the designer can work hard to play the edition, or have his own exclusive version, and then cooperate with the corresponding skilled factory, the physical version of the finished product will be more secure.

Designer brand size and quantity matching with factory size

The size of the factory is as large as a few thousand people to a few people. Large factories have large output and naturally like to receive large orders, but they do not refuse to pick up small bills. Especially now many factories can do single piece flow.

The problem is that the total volume of the brand occupies the proportion of the factory output. If the proportion is too small, the factory may not attach importance to it unless the boss appreciates the designer's talent.

Therefore, designer brand should consider the sustainability of future cooperation when choosing factories. If there are 1000 pieces per season, there may be dozens to hundreds of single items. Although this is small, it is also good. If the factory continues to grow in the future, the factory will be very serious about it.

Order quick adjustment capability

We have always said: designer brand is the trend, but for the time being, designer brand operation mode is the most traditional and slowest. If the production chain can not ensure rapid response, then it will be empty talk to guide the trend.

Small factories may not be able to adjust orders quickly, which is entirely related to the management level of factories. Some big factories can adjust quickly because of the optimization of processes and responsibilities.

The designer must inspect the flexibility and speed of order adjustment in order to adapt to the long-term development in the future.

Sampling and production cycle

Designers should clearly distinguish between proofing and bulk goods.

The proofing should be as early as possible, please help the factory to cooperate with you, and finish the order before the fashion week, so that there will be enough time to shoot Lookbook (catalog) and make Linesheet (buyer's order).

In China, due to the force majeure of the Spring Festival holidays, many designer and brand samples of autumn and winter series are often too late to finish at the end of March, so it is necessary to communicate with the factory ahead of time, which is less affected by the Spring Festival holiday, or there is a way to coordinate.

The same is true for big goods. On the one hand, we should inspect the delivery cycle of the factory, and also consider whether the brand itself can match and coordinate with the factory, which is in line with the cycle of both sides.

Some foreign trade factories, due to the earlier delivery dates of foreign orders, are actually in a state of order shortage in the domestic bulk cargo shipment, so they can cooperate with each other.

Timely shipment will make designers brand buyers and customers more smoothly.

Price competitiveness and account period

Price is the eternal topic, and designers should also consider the price performance ratio.

A designer said that the factory he was looking for was very cheap, but under normal circumstances, the so-called factory was only a tailor shop. The service provided was extremely limited. It only finished the sewing process. The designer had to place yards, cut pieces and arrange them later.

The account period is another problem. Some factories can accept a longer checkout cycle, which is undoubtedly beneficial to the designer of cash flow.

Of course, designer brand can not be dragged without any reason. It has always been an important consideration for suppliers to pay well when selecting Party A. many factories are willing to reduce production prices for brands that can pay on time.

Therefore, designers should consider their input-output ratio and cash flow comprehensively, and select corresponding factories.

At the same time, there is a difficult problem for designers to face: the problem of high cost is limited before improvement.

However, designer brand must not sacrifice fabric quality and clothing to reduce costs, otherwise it will violate the original intention of being a designer brand.

The simplest way is to give the designer part of the profits to the buyer shop or retailer, and build up confidence in the brand after the next home can sell smoothly, so as to increase the order quantity.

Of course, this needs to carry out some financial accounting, designers also need to make in-depth planning on fabric ordering and ready-made garment production. The issue of ordering depends on designers taking into account when planning. Simply speaking, they should not use too much fabric and make diversity, reduce the difficulty of placing orders after meeting.

For the time being, designer brand has not come to the stage of waiting for suppliers to come to pick, but at this stage, designers should take the initiative to actively seek, compare and persuade suppliers.

You know, in the fully competitive industry of clothing, there is no need to find suppliers.

It is a small case to spend money on suppliers' contact forms, sending undercover, buying express little brothers, squatting garbage rooms in this industry are not legends.

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