apparel
Product Development Process
- Develop specialty fabric at the yarn construction and mill level with lab dips, sample yardage, dye lots and bulk print/strike off or color run.
- Efficiently guide the construction and sewing details details of a product to lower cost, while maintaining the design integrity and quality
- Shop internationally and domestically for garments to provide directional trend samples for design inspirations of wash, fabric and construction
- Negotiate with fabric mill and garment manufactures on payment terms, delivery dates, product cost, defects claims, damages and returns
- Collaborate and brainstorm with the merchant and design teams on voids in the marketplace, bringing garments to life and generate high sales demand .
- Produce a market study on raw materials to resource product to a lower cost based upon volume and commitment to supplier
- Availability of low minimum order quantity (MOQ) of garments for bulk production
- Review and advise country of origin options to lower duty and transportation cost
Quality Assurance and AQL
- Provide a third party garment inspection company for full “in-line and final bulk inspection” to a defined AQL level for quality verification
- Compose / Generate garment testing protocol, quality control standards and a vendor manual can be custom written for your Brand and products.
Market Strategies for Retail
- Formulate a tailored global apparel supply chain contingency strategy with Geo-political risk considered for the retail market
- Evaluate global factory base and provide a review with risk evaluation assessments and environment hazard concern warnings to protect the retail brand
- Build out a roadmap to consolidate and edit current supplier base on performance, product quality and abilities to offer new product and innovate in a dynamic retail market