Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
MSTFD5026 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Conduct fashion design purchasing
Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024
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Unit of Competency | MSTFD5026 - Conduct fashion design purchasing |
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Description | |||
Employability Skills | |||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit of competency describes the skills and knowledge required to research local and international fashion themes and styles, and purchase fashion products for use in the development of fashion designs. It involves identifying sources for purchasing products to help develop designs and fashion directions.The unit applies to purchases that can inspire new designs or assist in demonstrating ideas to meet a stakeholder design brief or the design needs of a product range or label. Work may be conducted in small to large scale workplaces in the textiles, clothing and footwear industry, and may involve individual and team activities.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. |
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Competency Field |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Prepare for fashion design purchasing |
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Element: Clarify purchasing objectives, establish criteria for selecting design purchases, and confirm purchasing budget | ||||||||
Element: Identify fashion design outlets and supplier and purchasing locations relevant to purchasing objectives | ||||||||
Element: Determine suitable purchasing strategy, and identify potential communication barriers with selected location | ||||||||
Element: Investigate and prepare to deal with currency, language and purchasing practices of selected location, and according to work health and safety requirements | ||||||||
Element: Purchase fashion products |
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Element: Ensure fashion design products to be selected are produced ethically using sustainable work practices | ||||||||
Element: Test themes, styles and trends of fashion design products to be selected during purchasing | ||||||||
Element: Negotiate terms of purchase according to workplace procedures, industry standards, and legal and ethical requirements | ||||||||
Element: Assess production and supply opportunities and make purchases that meet purchasing objectives and comply with workplace purchasing procedures | ||||||||
Element: Identify and respond to additional design opportunities outside of set objectives | ||||||||
Element: Present design purchases to stakeholder |
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Element: Develop and use appropriate communication tools to convey themes and design concepts relating to purchased products | ||||||||
Element: Use persuasive language and effective communication skills to encourage adoption of ideas and concepts for further development | ||||||||
Element: Document findings and outcomes of purchasing |