Fashion Business: Start Ups - What You Need to Know

Overview

What you need to know about product development (apparel or textile homewares) to start a new business. Covers all elements of the product side of the business from initial concept through to delivery into your warehouse.

Course content

The product development process from design through to production. Quality assurance guidelines to ensure you get what you want. Tips on how to source the right supplier to get the price, quality and quantity that you want. Timelines, costings and shipment.

Ideal for

Ideal for newly established businesses who wish to develop product and buy from local or overseas makers.

Important Information

This course is a fabulous partner course to our other Fashion Business courses including (scroll down for links in 'Related courses'):

  • Fashion Business: specifications for manufacturing success
  • Fashion Business: dealing with offshore manufacturers
  • Fashion Business: marketing essentials

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Outcome

An understanding of all the elements required to develop and source apparel or textile homewares successfully.

Materials supplied

All relevant course materials are included.

Materials to bring

Pen/pencil and notebook.

Award

Participants will be awarded an RMIT Statement of Participation.

Additional notes

If you are travelling from out of state it is highly recommended that you wait for your course confirmation letter before booking any flights.

Facilitator


Anne Radford Helme

Anne has worked in the Apparel, Underwear and Footwear businesses in Operations and Supply Chain for over 25 years. She has managed teams in Planning, Product Development, Customer Service, Sourcing and Logistics. In 1988 she graduated from Melbourne University with a diploma in Engineering. After working for Kayser Lingerie and Lovable in the underwear stream, she went on to work for adidas. Her role started as costing and engineering garments to achieve profitable margins and was an intrigue part of the team that saw adidas rise back in leading the sports branded market against its major competitors

2000 Anne join Pacific Dunlop which later became Pacific Brands. She worked over several of their businesses in operational and supply chain roles, her roles consisted executing business strategy by improving efficiency and return profit to meet KPI’s. She has worked and travelled overseas securing capacity for manufacturing and reducing lead-times by 10% and improving gross margins. Her extensive knowledge is in planning, product development, supplier/customer relationships and has a sound business acumen.

2011 Anne graduated with a business management Diploma, she joined the business senior leadership team and was responsible for coaching and mentoring employee’s, in 2015 Anne completed a certificate IV in Human Recourses.

Her knowledge over the Supply Chain and Business Operations is a solid foundation into teaching the Merchandising Planning & Fashion Business short courses.

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Available course dates

Tuesday 24 November 2020

  • Code S350376
  • Start date 24.11.20
  • End date 24.11.20
  • Hours 6
  • Campus Brunswick
  • Fee $290.00
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Session  Start  End Hours
Tue 24.11.20 10:00am 04:30pm 6.00

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