The planning section of the sample room is in charge of making the production plan for sewing and cutting processes. The importance of making a production plan for the sample room is to manage their sample producing process and the delivery of their goods in time to the buyer.
The difference between the bulk production plan and the sample production plan is; that the sample room makes their production only for a day. But the bulk production plan is for a month.
· Sample Requisition Sheet (SRF) ;
Sample Requisition Form is a document like the trim card, which includes all the trims and fabric samples of a particular sample. As these samples are still in the inquiry stage, the factory does not trend to buy accessories for making of samples. Except PP samples, they use factory sources to make sample and to prepare the SRF.
Preparing of the SRF before the sample production starts is very important because the sample room needs fabric and trims references with their processing.
Preparing of the SRF before the sample production starts is very important because the sample room needs fabric and trims references with their processing.
If we look at the production plan, first of all they should receive the SRF. The SRF should be handed over to the sample room on the day before the sewing date. The merchandising team prepares this SFR and there is a deadline to send SRF to sample planning officer. The cut off time is 3.00pm and after that time, the production planner starts create production plans for received SRFs.
Before the sample room starts to sew sample for new style, they hold a meeting called The Risk Assignment Meeting. Some features of this meeting is same to the PP meeting and the main purpose of holding this meeting is for identifying the difficulties that they would have to face during the sampling process. Discussing the critical operations within the garment and give solutions for them are the main objectives of this RA meeting.
The quality maintaining task is on the hands of tailors’ and no one is there to inspect the sewing process. Tailors have to submit a well finished garment to the quality section at the end of the sewing process. Then QC check is done for the finished samples’ quality.
At the same time it shows how many samples for one tailor has to stitch.
At the first time factory is placed an order for a new style and the sample room do a try-out sample. This is an internal process of the factory to take an idea about the garment and this is very important to the costing stage also. If it is a try out sample the pattern maker directly send his patterns to marker planer for marker drawing.
Every developed patterns at the deferent stages are saved from their reference numbers in the sample room data base.
Finally, patterns approved by the buyer are sent to the cutting department and they cut fabric by using these patterns. But at the costing and the ordering processes they don’t use approved patterns for marker drawing and they use pattern still at the developing stage.
