What Things You Must Know Before Starting Work With a New Buyer/Buying house?

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Dear All,

From my this post you will get a details list of information, which is very important for a merchandiser as well as factory before starting work with a new Buyer.

Þ   The buyer name & history.

Þ   Final destination or place of delivers the goods.

Þ   Buying house name (if any).

Þ   Payment terms (L/C   or TT   or Contact).

Þ    If L/c then, the Payment Condition at sight or deferred.

Þ   If deferred then, 60 days or 90 days or any other.

Þ   Price will be in FOB or CIF?

Þ   Is the price will be including buying commission or w/o commission?

Þ    Who will inspect the goods?

Þ   If third party then who will be pay the inspection charge?

Þ   Original art work with styling details or Scan copy must be needed.

Þ   Actual & latest size specs with all the sizes which qty in purchase order / order sheet.

Þ   Fabrications details (Composition, Type, Gsm, Peach/sweated, Enzyme/silicon   or any other additional requirement).

Þ   Additional fabric details (Appliqué etc, if any).

Þ   Wash garments or w/o wash (if then washing details).

Þ   Print details including dimension & placement. Such as pigment/rubber/flock/foil etc (if any).

Þ   Embroidery details (Normal stitch, appliqué, Badge etc, if any).

Þ   Test requirement details (Azo or any others, if any).

Þ   Order qty, if possible color wise (Approximately).

Þ   Maximum body color (Approximately).

Þ   Size wise qty ratio (%) = S/? %, M/? %, L/ ? % etc.

Þ   Stripe repetition details with color (for yarn dyed).

Þ   Viscose percentage for Grey mélange & Polyester percentage for cvc or pc

Þ   Probable delivery date.

Pls note that, it is not compulsory that, you will get all the above information from your buyer at the very beginning, but pls try to get above information since the beginning from your buyer.

These information will help you many ways in future to continue work smoothly with the following Buyer.

Pls let me know your opinion.

Thanks and best regards

Bipul