Take one enquiry from quotation to shipment plan
A buyer sends an enquiry for 30,000 pieces of a style your factory can make, asking for a price and a delivery date within two days. You own the quotation, the confirmation and the critical path.
Who this is for: Merchandisers, costing staff, planners and account managers.
What you produce: A quotation and execution pack: the cost sheet with sources, the price with its assumptions, the critical path, and the escalation you would send when a date slips.
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Task 1
Build the cost sheet and state for each line whether the figure is measured, quoted or assumed.
What a good answer contains: A good answer measures fabric consumption, quotes trims from suppliers, and shows the costed minute rate. It totals how much of the price rests on assumptions and flags the riskiest one.
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Task 2
Write the quotation conditions: quantity, size ratio, material prices, delivery terms and validity. Say what changes trigger a re-quote.
What a good answer contains: A good answer makes the price conditional in writing, so later changes become a variation rather than an argument.
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Task 3
Build the critical path from order confirmation to shipment, with the three dates that decide whether the order ships on time.
What a good answer contains: A good answer works backwards from the shipment date, identifies material approval, bulk fabric in-house and PP approval as decision gates, and shows the float between them.
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Task 4
Write the escalation message for the day bulk fabric is two weeks late, including options and their costs.
What a good answer contains: A good answer informs early, states the impact on the ship date in plain numbers, and offers options with consequences instead of a promise it cannot keep.
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