Sampling Department in Garment Industry
Sampling Department in Garment Industry
The Sampling Department in the garment industry is one of the most important departments in any export building and plays a vital role in a unit's uplift.
The sampling department team works directly with the Merchandising and Development department.
In the Sampling Department work is done to see how the product will look when manufactured in bulk and to check if there are any differences in the design that are made according to the requirements of the consumer. Sampling is the stage of development of initial steps of product development. It is a process through which a small number of clothes are made to match the buyer's requirement and obtain the buyer's approval to start production.
It's different from bulk manufacturing because every tailor is multi-skilled here. The sampling department makes samples based on specifications and requirements sent by the purchaser in the tech pack Sampling Department process varies from purchaser to purchaser, and type of style as well, but a particular order of sampling is followed in the industry, the stages and purpose of the sample may be the same but the terminology used may vary and depend entirely on the purchaser.
The
typical samples namely described as:
Such samples are sent one after the other to the retailer for the buyer's approval and to proceed further. In addition to these normal steps, the buyer often recommends improvements to the prepared sample, and then adding such suggestions makes a counter sample and is sent to the buyer for approval. The sampling department helps the merchandising department find out about the consumption of fabric per unit of clothing and thus helps in costing the cloth.
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