From Buyer Brief to Shipment
The capstone is one order, carried through every stage you have studied. Take a real or imagined buyer brief and work it through the sixteen steps below in your own words. Your answer saves as you go and you can download it as your own record.
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1. Buyer requirement
State the product, quantity, price target, delivery date and market.
2. Design
Describe the design intent and what the customer is buying visually.
3. Product development
List the specification decisions and what must be approved.
4. Sourcing
Choose fabric and trim sources and justify each choice.
5. Costing
Cost the garment: fabric, trims, CM, overheads and margin.
6. Pattern and sample
Set out the pattern work, size set and the fit approval steps.
7. Production planning
Plan capacity, line allocation and the critical path dates.
8. Cutting
Plan marker, spreading, shade sorting and bundle control.
9. Sewing
Give the operation flow, the bottleneck and the in-process checks.
10. Value addition
Specify print or embroidery with parameters and tolerances.
11. Washing and finishing
State the recipe intent, the approved reference and the controls.
12. Quality
Define inline and final inspection, sampling plan and test requirements.
13. Compliance
Name the safety, chemical and social requirements this order carries.
14. Packing
Give the pack method, ratio, marks and the pre-seal checks.
15. Logistics
State the shipping term, documents and the handover point.
16. Retail
Say how the product reaches the customer and what returns risk it carries.
Your capstone submission
Write at least 300 words covering all sixteen steps. Nobody grades it — it is your own professional record of how you would run the order.
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