Karthik AK

• Performed opening duties such as

· Led buying meetings with product, pricing, and planning.

· Developing market intelligence for every season to make sure we are aligned to market prices.

· Analyze opportunities to bring newness on fabrics, prints & and any new techniques in business to align with our competitors.

· Create opportunities to save more and improve our buying margins.

· Liaise with supplier partners for capacity management, Order management, approvals, PO management, Delivery management.

· Liaise with forwarders for shipping process and providing approvals.

· Leading on Licensee Projects for India have handled Major Licensor’s from UK.

• Performed opening duties such as.

· Costing and finalizing orders.

· Handled complete process of order follow up.

· Analyze market Season Inputs to buying teams

· Updating supplier forecast.

Handled day to day merchandising scheduled work.

· Scheduling Buying meetings.

· Costing and finalizing orders.

· Handled complete process of order follow up.

· Analyze market & Season Inputs to buying teams

· Updating supplier forecast to buying teams.

· Handled day to day merchandising scheduled work.

· Interact with buyers and develop samples according to requirement.

· Costing and meeting internal factory margins to sign off orders with buyers.

· Finalizing orders & planning T&A.

· Interact with Buyer for timely approval of lab dips, Knit downs and Bulk approvals

· Ordering (fabrics, trims, packaging and any other requirements)

· Sending weekly reports for Production and sampling to buyers.

· Following up fabric and other requirements from mills and packaging suppliers.

· Submitting FPT and GPT.

· File handover to factory with all approvals to start the production.

• Performed opening duties such as .

· Getting Tech packs from buyer and executing samples and auditing them.

· Follow up on orders placed with factories and sending weekly update to buyers.

· Making weekly plan for factory visit's and Audits.

· To implement new developments in manufacturing technique at the vendor’s end and Coordinating with factory for sampling and Production.

· Analyzing problems and taking necessary initiatives.

· Souring new vendors for garment.

· Follow up with factories for quality control of fabric and Garment.

· Line setup and getting quality output from factories.

· Audits like, sample audit, Size set, Pre-production meetings, Inline inspections, pre-finals and final inspections.

• Performed opening duties such as.

· Interact and manage with Buyers and Suppliers.

· Technical analysis of fabric quality and parameters

· To implement new developments in manufacturing technique at the vendor’s end and Coordinating with factory for sampling and Production.

· Liaise with respective factories regarding sampling and fabric production.

· To interact with Buyer for timely approval of lab dips, Knit downs and Bulk approvals.

· Follow up lab test reports and quality control of fabric and Garment.

· Analyzing problems and taking necessary initiatives.

· Costing & Souring new vendors for garment production and new kind of fabrics.