Besides purchasing ability, what skills should an excellent buyer possess?

In recent years, fashion shops have risen rapidly in China. The differentiated consumption experience of fashion buyers' shops and the products and services that are more in line with the segmented consumption demand have brought vitality to the depressed retail market with "buyers" as the core business model. With the change and upgrade of the operation mode of clothing enterprises, the new profession of fashion buyers has entered people's field of vision. All major brands are aware of the importance of fashion buyers, and have prepared corresponding positions for fashion buyers ~ So today, let's take a look at what skills excellent buyers should have besides purchasing ability.

1. Analysis, research, induction, application and manufacture of fashion trends.

Buyers are the direct promoters and manufacturers of fashion. When a hot topic, epidemic symptom or related product in a new market comes into being or appears, it must be confirmed or bought back as soon as possible to organize and discuss the reasons why it has become a hot topic, and then applied to subsequent imitation.

2. Study on fabric, color matching and washing process.

Buyers need to know the fabric, auxiliary materials, color matching, size, washing precautions, production technology, utilization rate, processing cost, processing cycle and other knowledge of products in order to better judge and reduce a large number of mismatches and waste in raw material procurement.

3. Understand product technology and have technical background.

More and more enterprises pay attention to technical background when recruiting procurement positions. Because in the process of communicating with suppliers, procurement will involve many technical problems and use many technical terms. If the purchaser knows the relevant product knowledge, process knowledge and even lean production expertise, the communication with suppliers will be much smoother and more professional.

4. Calm desire to buy

Although buyers spend a lot of money all day, most of them are not for themselves. At this time, it is necessary to have an objective and calm desire to buy. To analyze what consumers like, different regions, different groups of people and different consumption levels lead to the quantity and types of their purchases.