Sampling Department in Garment Industry

Sampling Department in the garment industry is one of the most important departments in and export building and plays a vital role in a unit's uplift. The sampling department team works directly with the Merchandising and Development department.  In the Sampling Department work is done to see how the product will look when manufactured in bulk and to check if there are any differences in the design that are made according to the requirements of the consumer. Sampling is the stage of development of initial steps of product development. It is a process through which a small number of clothes are made to match the buyer's requirement and obtain the buyer's approval to start production.

It's different from bulk manufacturing because every tailor is multi-skilled here. The sampling department makes samples based on specifications and requirements sent by the purchaser in the tech pack Sampling Department process varies from purchaser to purchaser, and type of style as well, but a particular order of sampling is followed in the industry, the stages and purpose of the sample may be the same but the terminology used may vary and depend entirely on the purchaser.

The typical samples namely described as:

Design development

Proto sample

Fit sample

Ad or photoshoot sample

Salesman sample

Pre-production sample

GPT sample

Size set sample

TOP sample

Wash sample

Shipment sample

Such samples are sent one after the other to the retailer for the buyer's approval and to proceed further. In addition to these normal steps, the buyer often recommends improvements to the prepared sample, and then adding such suggestions makes a counter sample and is sent to the buyer for approval. The sampling department helps the merchandising department find out about the consumption of fabric per unit of clothing and thus helps in costing the cloth.

Sampling Department in Garment Factory:

Responsibilities of Sampling Department in Apparel Industry:

1. Getting clarifications about style details from the merchandiser,
2. Checking patterns, work-ability,
3. Preparation of different samples and getting the buyer’s approval,
4. Informing quality-related problems, encountered during preparing samples to QC.
5. Minimizing operations and consumption. 

Sampling department plays a significant role to achieve a garment order export for the factory. It is the main section for any garment manufacturing factory. As its importance, this article has presented the various important duties and responsibilities of the sample department.

Sample department of apparel industry industry has to maintain the below responsibilities:

All the above responsibilities have explained in the following: It is the first task of any kind of garment sample department. Here, the responsible person has to know about the details of the sample from the garment merchandiser. In this stage, the apparel merchandiser explains various important matters related to sample garments to the sample department personnel such as style, size, color, fabrication, washing embroidery etc.

After receiving all the information of sample garments, here sample department personnel has to cut the pattern papers according to the buyer’s instruction which he received from the apparel merchandiser.

The fabric has to cut here according to the definite pattern and sewing the garments by maintaining the buyer's instruction. Other instructions are also maintained here such as wash, embroidery, print, etc. Finally, it’s sent to the buyer for approval. In this way, various type of samples such as proto sample, fit sample, photoshoot sample, salesman sample, size set sample, top sample, shipment sample, etc. are made here.

It is one of the most important tasks of any sampling department. If found any problems during making the sample then it should be informed to the quality controller (QC) instantly. After that, the quality controller will take the necessary steps to solve those problems.

The sampling department has to maintain other tasks of minimizing operations and fabric consumption which will be maintained during garment production.

By: ClassicVogue byPHT