Showing posts with label Merchandising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Merchandising. Show all posts

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Fabric Consumption for Knit Garments

Fabric Consumption for Knit Garments

Fabric Consummation:
In a garment industry, profit or lose mostly depend on the total consummation of fabric in an order. Therefore, fabric consummation must be calculated properly before fabric cutting. There are two major methods to calculate the fabric consumption for a garment industry. They are namely-marker making method and mathematical method. Generally fabric consumption for a garment can be calculated through marker making either by manually or by using a machine withCAD facilities. By mathematical method different formulas are used to calculate the fabric consumption. Today I would like to discuss about Knit and woven fabric consummation in the garment industry.
Fabric Consummation for Knit Garments:
Following parameters are needed to be considered for fabric consumption in the garments industry-
1.    Fabric weight (GSM)
2.    Fabrics width
3.    Grin line orientation
5.    Shrinkage of the fabric
6.    Type of the fabric
7.    Way marker used
9.    Fabric losses while cutting
We all know that knit fabric and woven fabric consummation system are quite different. Knit fabric is calculated by fabric weight and woven fabric is calculated by fabric length and weight direction. Therefore, the formula of fabric consummation is also different for both fabrics.
Basic formula of knit fabric consumption is

Monday, September 1, 2014

Retail supply chain

In the supply chain, merchandising is the practice of making products in retail outlets available to consumers, primarily by stocking shelves and displays. While this used to be done exclusively by the stores' employees, many retailers have found substantial savings in requiring it to be done by the manufacturer, vendor, or wholesaler that provides the products to the retail store. In the United Kingdom there are a number of organizations that supply merchandising services to support retail outlets with general stock replenishment and merchandising support in new stores. By doing this, retail stores have been able to substantially reduce the number of employees needed to run the store.

While stocking shelves and building displays is often done when the product is delivered, it is increasingly a separate activity from delivering the product. In grocery stores, for example, almost all products delivered directly to the store from a manufacturer or wholesaler will be stocked by the manufacturer's/wholesaler's employee who is a full-time merchandiser. Product categories where this is common are Beverage (all types, alcoholic and non-alcoholic), packaged baked goods (bread and pastries), magazines and books, and health and beauty products. For major food manufacturers in the beverage and baked goods industries, their merchandisers are often the single largest employee group within the company. For nationwide branded goods manufacturers such as The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo, their respective merchandiser work forces number in the thousands.

Wha is Promotional merchandising?

The annual cycle of merchandising differs between countries and even within them, particularly relating to cultural customs like holidays, and seasonal issues like climate and local sporting and recreation. Events such as Chinese festivals and Japanese festivals are incorporated in an annual cycle of shop decorations and merchandise promotion.
In the United States, the basic retail cycle begins in early January with merchandise for Valentine's Day, which is not until mid-February. Presidents' Day sales are held shortly thereafter. Following this, Easter is the major holiday, while springtime clothing and garden-related merchandise is already arriving at stores, often as early as mid-winter (toward the beginning of this section, St. Patrick's Day merchandise, including green items and products pertaining to Irish culture, is also promoted). Mothers Day and Fathers Day are next, with graduation gifts (typically small consumer electronics like digital cameras) often being marketed as "dads and grads" in June (though most college semesters end in May; the grads portion usually refers to high school graduation, which ends one to two weeks after Father's Day in many U.S. states). Summer merchandise is next, including patriotic-themed products with the American flag, out by Memorial Day in preparation for Independence Day (with Flag Day in between). By July, back-to-school is on the shelves and autumn merchandise is already arriving, and at some arts and crafts stores, Christmas decorations. (Often, a Christmas in July celebration is held around this time.) The back-to-school market is promoted heavily in August, when there are no holidays to promote. By September, particularly after Labor Day, summer merchandise is on finalcloseout and overstock of school supplies is marked-down some as well, and Halloween (and often even more of the Christmas) merchandise is appearing. As the Halloween decorations and costumes dwindle in October, Christmas is already being pushed on consumers, and by the day after Halloween retailers are going full-force with advertising, even though the "official" season doesn't start until the day after Thanksgiving. Christmas clearance Sales begin even before Christmas at many retailers, though others begin onthe day after Christmas and continue on at least until New Year's Day but sometimes as far out as February.
Merchandising also varies within retail chains, where stores in places like Buffalo might carry snow blowers, while stores in Florida and southern California might instead carry beach clothing and barbecue grills all year. Coastal-area stores might carry water skiing equipment, while ones near mountain ranges would likely have snow skiing andsnowboarding gear if there are ski areas nearby.so you can solve the merchandising problem through the proper supply chain management system.

What is merchandising?

The activity of promoting the sale of goods at retail. Merchandising activities may include display techniquesfree samples, on-the-spot demonstration, pricing, shelf talkers, special offers, and other point-of-sale methods. According to American Marketing Association, merchandising encompasses "planning involved in marketing the right merchandise or service at the right place, at the right time, in the right quantities, and at the right price.

In the broadest sense, merchandising is any practice which contributes to the sale of products to a retail consumer. At a retail in-store level, merchandising refers to the variety of products available for sale and the display of those products in such a way that it stimulates interest and entices customers to make a purchase.
In retail commerce, visual display merchandising means merchandise sales using product design, selection, packagingpricing, and display that stimulates consumers to spend more. This includes disciplines and discounting, physical presentation of products and displays, and the decisions about which products should be presented to which customers at what time.