Resume CV : Merchandiser

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Resume :
Venkatesh S
E-Mail ID : venkatesh84kw AT gmail.com

Objective :
To work in an organization where I can further strengthen and develop my skills, potential and talent towards achieving targeted goals and setting objectives and competitiveness – I welcome a challenge.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE :
Total Experience = 6 years & 2 months.
AT Currently 3 years working experience in Sun Merchandising Services - Gurgaon – Buying House Dec 2006 Till date as Sr. Merchandiser
Buyer Handled :
- Star Ride Kids & Children Resource Club – USA
- Intertex Apparel & Rousso Apparel Inc – USA
- Neck & Neck – Italy

Company Profile :
Sun Merchandising Services is a leading Buying House in Gurgaon for Woven & knit garments, doing business with European Buyers and US Buyers.
Job Responsibilities :
a) Handling Merchandising & QA Team and Executive the orders ; SAMPLES to SHIPMENT - Close monitoring of T & A’s, Transparent Communication with Buyers, Daily follow ups with Vendors, updating of style sheets on a daily basis, track yarn/fabric flows, production schedules & Maintained the delivery schedule on time with proper planning. & Monitoring-maintaining quality standards at every stage as per the buyers specifications.
b) Vendor Sourcing & Analyzing
c) Costing, Price Negotiation with Vendor
d) Product Research & Sample Developments

AT 2 years experience in Knitcraft Apparel International - Gurgaon
Jun 2004 - Oct 2006 as Senior Merchandiser
Buyer Handled :
- DRI – USA
- Weir Golf – USA
- C&A – Germany
Company Profile :
Knitcraft Apparels International house is one of the leading Manufacturers & Exporters for Knits having Vertical intergraded set up with an Annual turnover of more than 100 cr.. Key Focus garment categories being manufactured & exported primarily for US,Canada and European market include all Top categories. Key buyers are Levis,Dockers,Vanity Fair,Haggar,GNA.Hartmax,C&A, Northern Isles, Tehama,Ashcity,Supreme Intl,PGA Tour etc.with Inhouse in house facilities of Knitting, Dyeing,Mercerizing Embroidery and Garment manufacturing

Job Responsibilities :
AT Initiate merchandise operations with international buyers & ensure the right merchandise reaches the right market at right time,return value to the client.
AT Order Execution- Close monitoring of T & A’s,transparent communication with buyers,daily follow ups with suppliers/business associates,updations of style sheetson a daily basis,track yarn/fabric flows,production schedules & meet deliverycommitments.
AT Executing sampling programs and organizing approvals at various stages of yarn/fabric and garmenting process.
AT Sourcing & placing required material/accessories orders (from domestic and international market )with various departments with required specifications and quantities.
AT Controlling all the embellishment involved in a particular style and planning the sewing accordingly to the space provided in sewing production.
AT Monitoring and maintaining quality standards at every stage as per the buyers specifications.
AT Coordination with vendors for various job work orders of knitting,processing, printing,embroidery etc.
AT 1 years Experience in Maverick Far East - Tirupur – Tamil Nadu-India
June 2003 – August 2004 as Merchandiser.

Buyer Handled :
- Main Knitting Inc – USA

Company Profile :
Maverick Far East is a leading Buying House in Tirupur/Tamilnadu for knit garments, doing business with Canada and US Buyers.
Job Responsibilities :
- Communicating with Buyer for routine correspondence and update respective d ept. about progress of their orders.
- To update buyer requirement like styling details, fabrics, trims, garment fitting and to provide the product accordingly.
- Providing new developments to buyer in terms of garment styling, embellishments along with competitive pricing and keeping its progress track till order confirmation.
- To plan, Monitor and access orders from the very initial stage right from costing, order confirmation, fabric procurement to shipment of goods.
- To follow up with different vendors for confirmed orders and new developments as well along with costing.
- Providing buyer with new developments every season keeping in view the Brand’s requirements and its interest.
- To provide buyer costing of product and for new developments.
- Maintaining weekly order status reports.
- Maintaining various samples sheets /charts as per Brand’s requirement like Costing charts, Ad sample charts, Fit status sheets.
- Working out T & A as per the garment deliveries required.

Technical Educational Qualification :
Diploma in GARMENT TECHNOLOGY First Class With Honors – 94 % marks
2001-2002 – Best Student Award
S. S. M. Institute of Textile Technology, Komarapalayam. – Tamil Nadu-India

Project : Fabric Sourcing for Garment Industry

Academic Qualification :
10th – S.S.L.C. - 89% marks.
12th – H.S.L.C - 80% marks

* Typewriting – Higher in English - 45 wpm

Computer Knowledge :
OS – Windows 98 & XP
Languages – c++, java
Packages –MSOFFICE 2003( Word , Excel ), Star Office 5.1, Visual Basic 6.0, Auto cad 2000.
Software’s – Micro media free hand drawing 3.0, DTP Related Software’s

Certified Course :
a) TuKa CAD ( Pattern Making & Marking )
b) Order Management System – global software

Personal Profile :
Age & sex : 26 / Male
Date of Birth : 10.02.1984
Language known : Hindi, English, Tamil

Declaration :
The above CV are true and clear of my best of knowledge.

Date : 4.2.2010
Place : Gurgaon

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CURRICULUM VITAE:
Ms.Sujatha-R
Email id : sujatha_positive AT rocketmail.com

OBJECTIVE :-
To Give the best performance for the benefit of the company who is paying me and for my individual growth to achieve my goals.

STRENGTHS :-
Ability to work as a Group Head to get work executed by good communication and
interpersonal skills.

Key skills of my profile :
1.Having 13 years of experience in garment merchandising in woven and Knit.
2.Worked for leading companies as Intimate Fashions India Ltd/Ambathur clothing Ltd/Bannari amman apparel Pvt Ltd and P.T sainath Industries-Indonesia etc.
3.Handled all kind of products –Tops and bottoms for Mens/Ladies and Kids.
4.Able to handle 2-3 buyers.
5.Having job knowledge from costing/developments till shipment.

WORK EXPERIENCE IN GARMENT INDUSTRY :
I.Name of the Organization : Ambathur clothing International.
Designation : Assistant Manager Merchandising End to End Process
Name of the Buyer : handling- J JILL
Products handled : Womens Bottoms and Tops (Knit and woven)
Duration :July 2012 to till date

II.Name of the Organization : Bannari Amman apparel Pvt Ltd- India
Designation : Assistant Manager Merchandising End to End Process
Name of the Buyer handling- The Childrens Place-Us
Products handled : Baby boys and boys -T.shirt and Ladies Brief/Bikini-Knits
Duration :Feb 2011 to May 2012

III.Name of the Organization : Vijay Garments- Chennai- India.
Designation : Manager Merchandising
Name of the Buyer hanhled- Takko-Germany and Tramp-Us
Products handled : Ladies TOPS and kids wear-Wovens
Duration :Dec 2008 to May 2010.

IV.Name of the Organization : P.T.Sainath Industries- Indonesia
Designation : Sr. Merchandiser.
Name of the Buyer hanhled- Hagger-US and AMC -US
Products handled : Mens Bottoms and kids wear-Wovens
Duration :Dec 2006 to Sep 2008.

V.Name of the Organization : Ambathur Clothing Ltd.- Chennai, India.
Designation : Sr. Merchandiser.
Name of the Buyer hanhled- Ann Tailor-US Banana Republic -US
Products handled : Ladies Bottoms and Mens TOPS-Wovens
Duration : Nov 2002 to Nov 2006.

VI.Name of the Organization : Intimate Fashions India Pvt. Ltd.- Chennai, India.
Designation : Assistant Merchandiser.
Name of the Buyer hanhled- Victoria secret-US
Products handled : Ladies Panties and Bra-Knits
Duration : July 1998 to Nov 2002.

Type of products handled :
Bottoms : 1.Ladies and Mes denim pants 2. Cargo pants 3.Ladies Pants formal. 4.Ladies pants casuals 5. Ladies pants with embellishment works. 6.cargo shorts.7. Ladies skirts and skorts.8 Baby dress

Tops : 1.Mens shirts formals and casuals. 2.Ladies shirts 3.Ladies tops 4.Ladies tops with bead work and embroidery work. 5.Ladies tops with Pintuck stiches.

Kind of Fabric handled :
1..Bottom Fabrics : Denims/Twill/canvas/ yarn died/ corduroy/ Cotton with elastic fabric/100% Linen/Cotton Linen/
2. Tops Fabris : Yarn died/Flannel/Piece died/Cotton voil/Poplin/ Polycotton/Printed/Plain/Tie and die.

Kind of wash handled :
1.Enzyme wash 2.Stone wash 3. Sand wash 4.Softner wash

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITY :
so far i worked in the above mentioned companies
- Garment development follow ups season wise (Fall/Holl/Spring/ Summer)
- Communicate with Buyer to get the tech pack.
- On getting the tech pack work with internal team to get the consumption details and the Fabric and trim prices to do the costing.
- On getting the order confirmation following samples start from fit sample.
- Internal workings in sap to make the BOM and Sales orders.
- Provide the detail to the procurement team to place the order for fabric and trims and continuous follow up to bring the material in-house.
- Conducting PPM for each and every order and circulating the details to the internal departments to process the order.
- Production follow ups.
- Organizing for final inspection.
- Following with commercial team for vessel booking.
- Internal and external communication
- Weekly order recap / fabric trims recap & co-ordination, meeting
with Production Team daily to review the Production.
- Fabric inspection / shade / shrinkage finalization with technical team for every order within 3 days of fabric receipt.
- Ensuring correct shades are issued to cutting as per the CCR
and ensuring cutting is done as per CCR and no shortages
- Killed garment control / drive on weekly basis plus excess shipment
- Wash check for every bath with team for respective order
- Chase & check trims chart / PI and confirm all ok for every order.
- Track and analyze market trends, production costs, and sales numbers to determine future merchandise direction.
- Responsible for tracking consumer trends and the latest style to get orders from the buyers.
- Able to achieve sales targets, purchasing, planning, co-ordination of sales and promotional activates.
- Arranging the storage of apparel.
- Supervise the creation of visual displays and the overall appearance of the show room.
- Responsible for tracking profits and losses..
- Traveling if required.
- Managing the team of 4members and taking the overall responsibility to run the factory with orders.
- Overall responsibility from getting the orders till shipment of the goods on time.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION :-
MBA- -MARKETING - University of Madras-India.
B.COM - 1999-2002 University of Madras-India.

PERSONAL DETAILS :-
Religion : Hindu
Nationality : Indian
Marital status : Married
Languages known : Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, English.

Sujatha R