Costing and Pricing for Apparel
Where the money in a garment actually sits — and how a quoted price turns into a margin or a loss.
Written by NOSK.life · Free online garment-industry education
3 modules · 9 subjects Intermediate About 8–10 hours of reading and quizzes at your own pace
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Course summary
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English transcript
Explore material consumption, making costs, and price negotiation to build traceable quotations and understand how actual order costs affect your margins. Start learning free at NOSK dot life.
What this course is
A free, self-paced specialist course on apparel costing: building a cost sheet from consumption and bill of materials, converting minutes into cost, negotiating and protecting a price, and controlling cost after the order is confirmed. Three modules, each ending with a five-question quiz.
Who it is for
- • Merchandisers who quote and confirm prices
- • Costing, planning and finance staff in a factory
- • Buyers and sourcing staff reviewing supplier quotations
- • Students and graduates preparing for merchandising roles
What you will be able to do
- • Build a cost sheet from measured consumption rather than a copied figure
- • Convert standard minutes and overheads into a defensible making cost
- • Separate a price negotiation from a cost reduction
- • Identify where a confirmed order loses its margin, and act while it can still be recovered
- • Read a factory cost report and say which numbers can be trusted
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Modules
Module 1 — Building the cost sheet
Build a complete garment cost sheet from measured fabric and trim consumption plus a costed making minute, and show where each figure came from.
3 subjects · 5-question quiz
Module 2 — Pricing, negotiation and contract
Negotiate from a cost position instead of a percentage, and record price, terms and assumptions so a later change is a variation rather than an argument.
3 subjects · 5-question quiz
Module 3 — Cost control after confirmation
Track a confirmed order's real cost against its quoted cost, and act on the variances that are still recoverable.
3 subjects · 5-question quiz
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