Merchandising, Retail Math & Apparel Production

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• Buyer Chargeback: Contest, Fix or Accept Premium Splits a year of buyer deductions into the part that can be argued and the part that can only be engineered away, then decides each deduction type three ways: contest it, fix its cause, or accept it. Prices contesting per claim against the hours it takes, and each fix against the recurring deduction it removes. Recoverable a Year cost
• Buyer Cost to Serve & Development Recovery Premium Charges each buyer with what it actually costs to serve: the samples it asked for divided by the orders it placed, and the office effort its order pattern consumes regardless of order size. Ranks the book by contribution after those costs rather than by gross margin, reports the samples each won order carried, and returns the order value below which each buyer stops paying for itself. Net Margin After Serving the Book %
• Buyer Quotation Generator Premium Quotes a whole style range to one buyer at once: grosses up each style so commission and margin are shares of the quoted price, measures what the buyer's target price would actually earn style by style, and then re-blends the margin over only the styles that sit below your walk-away floor - the ones the buyer is most likely to place. Order Value cost
• Buyer Terms & Effective Price Comparison Premium Reduces competing buyer offers to what each one actually pays: the quoted price less the cost of financing the credit it demands, less the deductions it habitually takes. Compares the offer that wins on the headline against the offer that wins on the money, prices the difference across the order, and shows the spread shrinking once the terms are paid for. Best Offer, Once Its Terms Are Paid For cost/pc
• Currency Exposure on an Order Book Premium Measures a book quoted in one currency and costed in another against the margin rather than against the rate. Nets the imported inputs bought in the quoted currency off the receivable to give the exposure that is genuinely open, prices the cover sold against it, and reports how hard a rate move lands on a margin that is a thin slice of revenue. Margin the Rate Has Already Taken local
• Cut Quantity Against Size Ratio: What the Total Hides Premium Reads a cut plan size by size against the ordered ratio, reports what can actually be shipped rather than what was cut, and prices the two failures separately - overcut pieces as finished goods nobody ordered, short pieces at whatever the contract charges for a short shipment. Fill Rate Against the Ratio %
• Funding the Receivables Book: Hold, Insure or Discount Premium Prices every buyer on the book three ways - funded from the bank limit, insured, or discounted - on one basis that charges the lender, the money the mill has to find itself and the loss it still carries. Reports which route is cheapest for each buyer, what routing them separately saves against applying one product to everything, and the return on released capital at which insuring a buyer stops being loss protection and starts being a working capital decision. What Routing Each Buyer Separately Saves cost/yr
• Markdown Timing & Depth Against a Season Premium Runs a season week by week under a proposed markdown and against every alternative week and depth, and prices the difference. Reports the margin on the buy rather than the margin on a unit, shows the depth a two-week delay would then require, and gives the week-by-week plan the buy actually needs. What the Plan on the Table Costs cost
• Minimum Order Quantity, the Stage That Sets It & the Cost of a Short Run Premium Carries every process minimum in the chain forward through the losses that follow it and expresses each one in finished pieces, so the minimum order quantity stops being a policy and becomes a computed number with a named cause. Then prices what running below it costs: the fabric bought and not sold, the true cost per piece against the cost at the chain's own lot size, the surcharge that restores the target margin, and what the next piece actually costs while the surplus lasts. What Running Below the Floor Costs, Per Piece cost/pc
• Preferential Origin & Duty Advantage Sheet Premium Works a value content rule of origin against a bill of materials and reports the number that actually matters before a price negotiation: the lowest export price at which the order still qualifies for preference. Prices each non-originating line by what re-sourcing it would cost per point of content gained, so buying origin can be compared against losing it. Duty Saved by Preference cost
• Pricing a Programme Through the Learning Curve Premium Prices a repeating programme across the months the line takes to reach its standard minute value, rather than at a standard the line will not hit for a season. Reports the premium the ramp has to add to the quotation, the month a single month stops losing money against the later month the programme itself does, the deficit being funded in between, and what a buyer who ends the programme early or re-tenders after the learning leaves behind. What the Ramp Has to Add to the Quotation cost/pc
• Pulling In a Calendar: What Each Day Costs and Which Day to Stop Buying Premium Prices a compressed time and action calendar one day at a time, taking each day out of whichever chain is actually setting the ship date. Reports the ladder of what successive days cost, the point at which two chains bind together and a day starts costing two crashes, and the day at which buying another becomes dearer than arriving late. What Buying the Right Number of Days Saves cost
• The Freight per Garment You Costed, and the Freight the Container Bills Premium Prices the cube each carton specification consumes, says for every style whether the shipment runs out of volume or out of weight first, rounds the container count up the way the carrier does, and reports the freight per garment actually billed against the figure the costing sheet assumed - with the gap in money on the quantity shipped. Freight per Garment as Billed cost/pc
• The Price on the Invoice and the Price You Keep Premium Follows a price from the list, through the discount that was negotiated, down through every concession granted after the invoice - settlement, credit days beyond terms, year-end rebate, claims settled, freight absorbed, samples never charged - and reports what each customer is actually worth per unit. Ranks them by the pocket discount rather than the invoice one, names the band between the best and the worst, and counts any customer whose pocket price is below variable cost. Total Discount off List %
• What a Reject Is Written Down To, and What It Fetches Premium Costs every disposal channel for seconds net of what it takes to use it - sorting, delabelling, freight, the share the channel refuses and the wait to be paid - and ranks them against the one baseline that is usually wrong, which is zero. States destruction as the priced alternative it actually is, and separates the recovery a contract forbids from the recovery nobody got round to. Net Recovered cost
• Cut-Order Planning & Lay Optimization Calculator Plans a cut order into lays: full lays at maximum ply height, the remainder garments and the short lay they need, how poorly that short lay uses the spread, total plies and the fabric the order will draw. Lays Required no.
• Factory Line Efficiency, Performance & Utilisation Modeler Splits sewing line efficiency into performance and utilisation using earned, on-standard and attended minutes, accounting for absenteeism and off-standard time, and converts attended minutes into a labour cost per piece. Overall Efficiency %
• Multi-AQL Inspection Thresholds (Critical / Major / Minor) Derives accept and reject numbers for critical, major and minor defect classes against one inspection sample, shows how much of each acceptance limit the findings consume, and reports the overall defect rate. Tightest Limit Consumed %
• Open-to-Buy, Inventory Turn & GMROI Modeler Calculates open-to-buy for a buying period from planned sales, markdowns, opening and closing stock and outstanding orders, alongside inventory turn, weeks of supply and gross margin return on inventory investment. Open-to-Buy
• Tech Pack Graded Measurement Generator Scales a base-size tech pack measurement across a full size run from the grade rule, returning the top and bottom size measurements, the span of the run, the tolerance band and how far adjacent sizes overlap within tolerance. Largest Size Measurement cm
• Thread Consumption by Stitch Class (ISO 4915) Matrix Adds up garment thread consumption across the ISO 4915 stitch classes actually used — lockstitch, chainstitch, overedge and safety stitch — each at its own consumption factor, with wastage allowance and thread weight. Thread per Garment m
• Trim Matrix Explosion & Single-Variant Kitting Exposure Resolves a size and colour trim matrix into the number of distinct trim variants actually purchased, contrasts a rule-based BOM against flat per-SKU bills for rows held and edits per supplier change, and sizes the order halted when one single variant runs short. Distinct Trim Variants to Buy variants
• Washed-to-Raw Shrinkage Reversal Calculator Reverses garment wash shrinkage to size the raw pattern block: raw length and width needed to land on the finished measurements, the growth added in each direction, the fabric consumption uplift and the spread caused by shrinkage variability. Raw Pattern Length cm