Sourcing Fashion Products from China: From Finding a Factory to Goods Landed
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Sourcing Fashion Products from China: From Finding a Factory to Goods Landed
A free, practical course on sourcing fashion products from China with confidence: your sourcing brief, finding and vetting factories, reading quotes and negotiating, samples, contracts and safe payment, protecting your designs, production follow up and inspection, shipping and customs, then a 90 day sourcing plan.
- 6 modules
- 18 lessons
- 6 quizzes
- 6 templates
- Certificate
Ramez BasmajiFashion consultant, founder of Fabusse
Requirements
- No previous experience in importing is needed.
- A product or collection you want to manufacture, even if it is only a first idea.
- About two hours a week for the lessons and exercises.
Features
- The difference between a factory, a trader and an agent, and how to tell who you are dealing with.
- A sourcing brief and an RFQ message a factory will answer seriously.
- Ways to find suppliers, criteria to vet them and a list of warning signs.
- Reading a quotation and comparing offers on a landed cost basis.
- The sampling stages and negotiating quantity, price and payment.
- The purchase order, safe payment and protecting your designs.
- Production follow up, quality inspection, shipping and customs.
- A 90 day sourcing plan.
Target audiences
- Owners of fashion brands who are thinking of manufacturing in China and do not know where to start.
- Designers who want a factory that understands their tech pack and produces at steady quality.
- Anyone who finished the course From Idea to First Collection and wants to go deeper into sourcing.
Sourcing from China does not mean finding the cheapest price. It means finding a factory that understands what you want, produces at a steady quality and delivers on time, while you protect yourself, your money and your designs along the way.
This course is the third part, after From Idea to First Collection and Fashion Brand Marketing. It joins sourcing into one path of six modules. Every lesson has concrete steps and an exercise you apply to your own product, and it ends with a 90 day sourcing plan.
What you will leave with
- A sourcing brief and a ready RFQ message.
- A long list of candidate factories and criteria to vet them.
- Offers compared on a landed cost basis.
- A purchase order, safe payment and protection for your designs.
- A follow up plan for production, inspection and shipping.
- A 90 day sourcing plan.
The numbers in the lessons are illustrative examples used to explain the method. They are not market prices and not promises of a result. Always replace them with the numbers of your own project.
What you will get done in this course
- A sourcing brief and a ready RFQ message
- A long list of candidate factories and criteria to vet them
- Offers compared on a landed cost basis
- A purchase order, safe payment and protection for your designs
- A follow up plan for production, inspection and shipping
- A 90 day sourcing plan
The toolkit: 6 free Excel templates
Spreadsheets with ready made formulas. Fill the yellow cells and the rest is calculated for you. The numbers already in them are illustrative examples that explain the method, not market prices.
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Curriculum
- 6 Sections
- 18 Lessons
- 6 Weeks
- Module 1: Understanding sourcing from China4 Items
- Module 2: Finding and vetting suppliers4 Items
- Module 3: Quotes, samples and negotiation4 Items
- Module 4: Contract, payment and protecting your designs4 Items
- Module 5: Production, quality and shipping4 Items
- Module 6: Scaling and the plan4 Items
