Fashion Business: Dealing with Offshore Manufacturers

Overview

An outline of what you need to know to work with overseas suppliers to source and develop product. The course covers practical requirements as well as tips for getting the best product at the best price.

Course content

Guidelines for how to work with overseas suppliers – how quality assurance can help you get the product that you want, what you need to supply, your supplier accountabilities, cultural differences and language issues, import costings, import freight, certification and accreditation bodies.

Ideal for

Ideal for newly established start-ups or existing staff upskilling who wish to learn about sourcing and developing product offshore. Apparel, accessories or textile homewares.

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: start ups - what you need to know
  • Fashion Business: specifications for manufacturing success
  • Fashion Business: marketing essentials

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Outcome

Learn how to import product from offshore suppliers

Pre-requisites

Microsoft office skills – basic to intermediate

Materials supplied

All relevant course materials are included.

Materials to bring

Pen/pencil and notebook.

Award

Participants will be emailed an RMIT Statement of Participation on course completion.

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.

Testimonial

  • Paula De Paoli

    The facilitator was extremely knowledgeable and provided me with essential and relevant knowledge for starting my own business.

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Available course dates

Thursday 26 November 2020

  • Code S350378
  • Start date 26.11.20
  • End date 26.11.20
  • Hours 6
  • Campus Brunswick
  • Fee $290.00
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Session  Start  End Hours
Thu 26.11.20 10:00am 04:30pm 6.00

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