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The responsibility of a fabric sourcing department or fabric sourcing personnel includes followings but not limited to these.
- Development of fabric suppliers for different types of fabrics (domestic and international level)
- Product (fabric and/or yarn) development as per buyer requirement
- Fabric price negotiation with suppliers
- Study market trends, latest finishes and fabric developments
- Research on yarn price and market trend
- Fabric costing
- Sourcing yarn and get knitting done from knitting subcontractors (In case factories are not sourcing finished fabric)
- Dealing with fabric sourcing - sourcing of greige fabric or finished fabric from suppliers
- Wet processing (specially dyeing) get done from dyeing mills
- Printing and embroidery getting done (in case printing and embroidery process is done on fabric)
- Dealing with fabric supplier for quality related issues, fabric to be reprocessed and rejected fabrics
- Fabric inventory management
- Coordination with buyers/buying house for fabric quality parameters, fabric development
- Dealing all documentation works like PO raising, making suppliers' Payments, follow-up with the transporter and getting material in-house
- Developing fabric reference library
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