COSTING IN GARMENT INDUSTRY
● Costing includes all the activities like purchase of raw materials,
accessories, processing and finishing of fabrics, sewing and packing of
garments, transport , shipping, over heads, banking charges and
commissions, etc.
CORRECT COSTING.
● One must know all the procedures involved in manufacture of a garment.
● Should have a very good knowledge of the price of all materials and trims.
● Should know the time for manufacturing of each garment .
● Should study the details required in a garment as per the tech sheet and
buyer.
● Fluctuation of raw material.
● Floating exchange rate.
● Quality.
● Customers.
● Qty and size break up
● Wastage.
COSTING SHEET
● Garment costing sheet is as per the exporter’s and buyer’s requirement.
● Cost sheet will make the job easier to finalize the price and get the order
from the buyer.
● This is one of the important role of a merchandiser for a company to get
business and there should be no error.
● Cost sheet will help you to avoid any particular costing head.
● You will know how we reached to the final free on board (fob).
● Well prepared cost sheet will help you to trace all details of costing.
● Cost sheet will also give you the cost break up for future reference.
● Based on product costing, merchandiser has to submit the price quotation
to respective buyers..
● We should remember that every buyer refers their product to several
manufacturers to compare price quotation.
● If our price quotation does not satisfy the buyer,they will not give us the
order.
● Will also help you to give the open costing if required to the buyer to
negotiate.
ANY BASIC CREW NECK TEE
AVERAGE (IN KGS)
STYLE NO. ANY BASIC CREW NECK TEE
FABRIC - BODY FABRIC 100%COTTON 30'S S/J 160GSM
YARN - 265/KG (as an
FABRIC PRICE/KGS (RS) -s/j 450
example)
AVERAGE (IN KGS) 0.255 2%YARN WASTAGE = 270
FABRIC COST 114.75 20(KNITTING= 290
FABRIC PRICE/KGS (RS) 1x1 rib 450 100RS/-(DYING)= 390
15%(DYING LOSS+END
AVERAGE (IN KGS) 0.015 PANEL WASTAGE) =Rs/-
450 APP.
FABRIC COST 6.75
TOTAL FABRIC COST 121.5
PATTERN, CUTTING & SEWING 28
FINISHING &PACKING 22
depend of print size or
printing 25
quality
TESTING 5
WASHING 3
trims 12
TOTAL 216.5
MARK UP @ 15 % 32.48
REJECTION @ 5% 10.83
GRAND TOTAL 259.80
GBP ( 95 conversion) 2.73
DT:- 03/06/12 DT:- 03/06/12
STYLE NO. WF42G03 WF42G03
32'S SURI SLUBJERSEY 120 32'S SURI SLUBJERSEY
FABRIC - BODY FABRIC
GSM (PC DYED) 120 GSM (OVER DYE )
FABRIC PRICE/KGS (RS) 470 394
AVERAGE (IN KGS) 0.225 0.225
TOTAL FABRIC COST 105.75 88.65
PATTERN, CUTTING & SEWING 40 40
PIGMENT O/DYE 32
TRIMS + HANGER 30 30
TESTING 8 8
WASHING 3 3
FINISHING &PACKING 15 15
TOTAL 201.75 216.65
MARK UP @ 15 % 30.26 32.50
REJECTION @ 3% 6.05 10.83
GRAND TOTAL 238.07 259.98
USD (@ Rs. 47 ) 5.07 5.53