A wholesale underwear order needs an unambiguous buying unit. “Six hundred underwear packs” does not tell a factory whether to make six hundred garments, six hundred retail multipacks or six hundred mixed-size wholesale bundles. Decide the unit and the style-colour-size quantities before comparing prices. This guide turns an agreed assortment into an order that purchasing,
The wholesale apparel portfolio works like a three-layer stack: stable basics that sell all year, seasonal lines that catch the peaks, and trend pieces that are tested small before they scale. The distributor who mixes the three layers smooths the cash flow that a single-category bet can never smooth, because the stable layer funds the
An apparel RFQ should make a supplier’s assumptions visible. Sending the same photograph to three factories does not create three comparable quotations: each may assume a different fabric, size mix, packing unit or delivery arrangement. Build one dated specification and ask each supplier to price that version, list deviations and separate included costs from exclusions.
A clothing import file should connect the garment specification, the commercial transaction and the shipment. The factory, freight forwarder, customs broker and importer each hold part of that information. Problems arise when their documents describe different products or when nobody owns the final review. This guide uses US imports as a concrete example. Other destinations
