RANGE & ASSORTMENT / BUYING ANSWER
Handing a collection to the purchasing team.
What belongs in a design-to-purchasing handoff for pet products?
details to the table.
Read the answer.
Review the requirements.
Discuss your project.
THE BUYING ANSWER
Start with a clear definition.
Transfer more than the selected images. Include style identifiers, specification status, planned variant quantities and the approvals still required. The buyer should be able to distinguish the intended range from samples or ideas that were rejected.
The decision behind the detail.
A clean handoff preserves design priorities while making commercial questions explicit. Avoid asking purchasing to infer materials or quantities from presentation slides.
PREPARE ONLY WHAT IS RELEVANT
Three details to bring.
- Approved range
- List the selected references with their latest revision names.
- Commercial questions
- Record quote scope, quantity assumptions and packing questions.
- Design boundaries
- Explain which features may change and which must be preserved.
Check together
- Archive superseded selections separately from the active brief.
- Identify the latest file for every style.
- Confirm who can approve a supplier-proposed change.
READY TO DISCUSS THIS DETAIL?
Take it into your project.
Go straight to an enquiry, or add a note first. Every field here is optional.
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Leave anything undecided blank. These notes do not approve a sample or order.
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