A Garments Yarn Purchase In-Charge manages the procurement of yarn required for garment production, especially for knitwear and textile manufacturing units.
Key Responsibilities
- Yarn requirement planning
- Calculate yarn requirements based on production orders and garment styles.
- Coordinate with Production, PPC, Stores, and Merchandising teams.
- Supplier management
- Identify reliable yarn suppliers.
- Obtain quotations and compare price, quality, lead time, and payment terms.
- Negotiate rates and commercial conditions.
- Yarn procurement
- Purchase yarn according to required count, composition, colour, GSM, and quality specifications.
- Prepare Purchase Orders (POs).
- Follow up with suppliers until delivery.
- Quality control
- Coordinate yarn testing and inspection.
- Check issues such as count variation, strength, colour/shade variation, contamination, moisture, and unevenness.
- Arrange replacement or claims for defective yarn.
- Inventory control
- Monitor yarn stock and consumption.
- Ensure sufficient stock for production without unnecessary excess inventory.
- Coordinate yarn receiving and warehouse records.
- Cost control
- Monitor yarn market prices.
- Negotiate competitive prices.
- Track purchase costs and support cost reduction.
- Documentation & ERP
- Maintain quotations, POs, supplier records, GRNs, invoices, and purchase reports.
- Update purchase and stock information in ERP/Excel.
Key performance areas
Right Quality + Right Quantity + Right Price + Right Time + Reliable Supplier