Fabric Buyer

Fabric Ordering and administration

• Receive fabric briefs from Buyers/Merchandisers:
• Brief and forward fabric swatches to suppliers to source quote and develop accordingly.
• Follow up on supplier quotes/comparative quotes within a range of fabric specifications.
• Confirm fabric prices and proposed shipment dates with merchandisers.
• Create fabric orders once price and shipment dates are confirmed,
• Follow up on confirmation of order and indent.
• Capture and continually update the ERP system in line with the fabric critical path.
• Follow up with suppliers re the critical path ensuring buying divisions' timeous sign off on handlooms/lab dips/strike-offs.
• Email all approvals.
• Follow up of shipment dates (ETD) and ETA's.
• Ensure timeous communication to production department/merchandisers of all ETD and ETA changes and maintain fabric schedules accordingly.
• Maintain records of fabric orders with corresponding swatches and signed approvals.
• Fabric delivery management and control:
• Maintain all record keeping of all fabric arrivals.
• Internal and external communication of actual fabric arrival.

Invoice/payment management

• Collate and follow up all paperwork in order to process payment (Invoice, Packing list, etc.);
• Invoice capturing on the required payment systems.
• Initiate fabric claims and follow up.

Fabric Stock

• Maintain fabric stock file, as well as in iSync.

New supplier Forms

• Attend to new supplier applications.