Fashion Business: Specifications for Manufacturing Success

Overview

Learn the importance of the specification or technical pack in the Textiles, Clothing and Fashion ( TCF ) industry and how to write one. The specification or tech pack is an essential component of the manufacturing process. You need a detailed and accurate specification in order to get your apparel, accessories or textile homewares product manufactured either locally or overseas, whether it be for small or large quantities.

Course content

  • What is the purpose of a specification
  • What are the elements of the specification – BOM, sketch, construction details, labelling and measurements.
  • Bring along a sample and prepare your own specification for your garment or textile homewares.

Ideal for

Ideal for newly established businesses who wish to develop product and buy from local or overseas makers. Existing product staff who want to upskill. Suitable for someone wanting to write a specification for apparel, accessories or textile homewares.

Important Information

This course is a fabulous partner course to our other Fashion Business courses including (scroll down for links in 'Related courses'):

  • Fashion Business: start ups - what you need to know
  • Fashion Business: dealing with offshore manufacturers
  • Fashion Business: Marketing essentials

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Outcome

Understand the important of the specification or technical pack
Learn how to prepare a specification using a template (this is not a sketch drawing course)

Pre-requisites

Basic/intermediate Microsoft office skills

Materials supplied

All relevant course materials are included.

Materials to bring

Pen/pencil and notebook.

Bring along a sample that you want to write a specification for.

Award

Participants will be emailed an RMIT Statement of Participation on course completion.

Additional notes

If you are travelling from out of state it is highly recommended that you wait for your course confirmation letter before booking any flights.

Facilitator


Anne Radford Helme

Anne has worked in the Apparel, Underwear and Footwear businesses in Operations and Supply Chain for over 25 years. She has managed teams in Planning, Product Development, Customer Service, Sourcing and Logistics. In 1988 she graduated from Melbourne University with a diploma in Engineering. After working for Kayser Lingerie and Lovable in the underwear stream, she went on to work for adidas. Her role started as costing and engineering garments to achieve profitable margins and was an intrigue part of the team that saw adidas rise back in leading the sports branded market against its major competitors

2000 Anne join Pacific Dunlop which later became Pacific Brands. She worked over several of their businesses in operational and supply chain roles, her roles consisted executing business strategy by improving efficiency and return profit to meet KPI’s. She has worked and travelled overseas securing capacity for manufacturing and reducing lead-times by 10% and improving gross margins. Her extensive knowledge is in planning, product development, supplier/customer relationships and has a sound business acumen.

2011 Anne graduated with a business management Diploma, she joined the business senior leadership team and was responsible for coaching and mentoring employee’s, in 2015 Anne completed a certificate IV in Human Recourses.

Her knowledge over the Supply Chain and Business Operations is a solid foundation into teaching the Merchandising Planning & Fashion Business short courses.

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Available course dates

Wednesday 25 November 2020

  • Code S350377
  • Start date 25.11.20
  • End date 25.11.20
  • Hours 6
  • Campus Brunswick
  • Fee $290.00
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Session  Start  End Hours
Wed 25.11.20 10:00am 04:30pm 6.00

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