MOQ per style, per colour or per size run are three different numbers. Ask which one you were quoted.
MOQ and lead time are the two numbers most often quoted loosely and most often disputed later. Neither is a single number. These are the questions that turn them into something you can plan against.
Ask whether the minimum is per style, per colour or per size run. A 300-piece minimum per style and a 300-piece minimum per colour are completely different commitments.
Ask whether the minimum is driven by yarn or by production. Yarn-driven minimums can sometimes be met by sharing a colour across several bodies; production-driven minimums cannot.
Ask what happens to the price below the stated minimum, because a surcharge is often available even when a lower minimum is not.
Sampling lead time, from tech pack to counter sample.
Yarn lead time, which is often the real constraint and sits outside the factory.
Production lead time after sample approval and after deposit.
Inspection, packing and booking time, which buyers habitually forget to add.
Ask which of these the quoted figure includes. The answer is usually only the third one.
What is the cut-off date after which this yarn colour is no longer available?
What changes if I add a colour after sample approval?
Who pays for a re-sample if the change comes from my side, and how long does it add?
What documentation comes with the shipment, and when?
A quoted MOQ that exists only in an email thread will be re-interpreted. Put the agreed minimum, the agreed lead time and the start point of that lead time into the order.
Where a figure has not been published, treat it as open rather than assumed. In this catalogue, MOQ and lead time are not published at style level, so both should be confirmed directly.
Every style in this catalogue publishes its fibre content, which is the input all of the above depends on. Start from the full catalogue or from a section such as Women's Autumn/Winter Knitwear, then ask for the points the catalogue does not publish.
70% Acrylic, 20% Nylon, 10% Angora
Autumn/Winter · View style
60% Acrylic, 20% Cotton, 10% Lurex
Autumn/Winter · View style
75% Acrylic, 20% Viscose, 5% Angora
Autumn/Winter · View style
100% Acrylic
Autumn/Winter · View styleNot if it comes with a price that breaks your margin. Ask for the price at several quantities and decide from the curve.
Usually at sample approval or at deposit receipt, not at order date. Confirm which.
Sometimes, when the minimum is yarn-driven and the styles share a colour. It is always worth asking.
Send the item number and the question together. Concrete questions get concrete answers.
