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This online course with certificate is a deep dive into apparel costing. It covers the basic elements of cost, defines IMU from the retail and sourcing perspective and gives a thorough grounding in other important considerations that impact product development decisions.
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Pre-Assessment Free trial
Assess the knowledge you already have on the course topics and evaluate how this course can be most helpful for you.
Course Overview Free trial
Grasp what you will learn in this course and get to know how to navigate it.
- 0.1 Who are we?
- 0.2 Navigating the course
- 0.3 What to expect
1. Price vs Cost
Understand what price and cost represent, differentiate cost-led pricing and price-led costs and learn how to choose the right approach for you.
- 1.1 Understanding Price and Cost
- 1.2 Cost-Led Pricing & Price-Led Costing
- 1.3 Module Summary
- 1.4 End of Module Assessment
2. Cost Components of a Garment
Understand the impact of fabric cost and the factors affecting it, other material cost components such as trims or decorations and explore the relationship between line efficiency and labour cost.
- 2.1 Cost Components of a Garment
- 2.2 Markers
- 2.3 Markers in Practice
- 2.4 Trims
- 2.5 Cut and Make
- 2.6 Line Efficiency
- 2.7 Module Summary
- 2.8 End of Module Assessment
3. Estimated Landed Cost (ELC)
Explore tariffs & duties, identify the factors affecting freight costs and the components of ELC and its calculation.
- 3.1 Duties and Tariffs
- 3.2 Freight Cost
- 3.3 Estimating Carton Dimensions
- 3.4 Calculating ELC and FOB
- 3.5 Module Summary
- 3.6 End of Module Assessment
4. Initial Mark-Up (IMU)
Understand IMU and its significance, explore the relationship between FOB/ELC/IMU and think about IMU ownership and IMU maximisation.
- 4.1 What is IMU?
- 4.2 Determining IMU
- 4.3 Module Summary
- 4.4 End of Module Assessment
5. Costing Considerations during Negotiations
Evaluate costing effectiveness, understand brand objectives vis-a-vis negociations and learn how to gain leverage from sustainability, innovation, collaboration, end-to-end efficiency and speed.
- 5.1 Cost Effectiveness
- 5.2 Additional Costing Considerations
- 5.3 Engineer End-to-End Efficiency
- 5.4 Module Summary
- 5.5 End of Module Assessment
Post-Assessment
Pass the post assessment and obtain your advanced apparel costing certification.
- Post Assessment
- Course Survey
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