Planning & Allocation Job Descriptions — Letter C

One planning and allocation job description begins with the letter C. The Costing Analyst is the financial specialist of this category: the analyst who builds up what a garment really costs — fabric, trims, making labour, processes, freight and duty — and tests that cost against the margin its selling price must return. The full description below covers the role's duties, skills, qualifications and career path in detail, and the Planning category hub lists all fourteen planning roles on one page.

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The C Role in Brief

Costing work is itemised and evidence-based. For each style the analyst completes a cost sheet — fabric consumption at its price per metre, every trim, the making cost from standard minutes at factory labour rates, washes and special processes, packaging, freight and duty — then calculates the intake margin at the target price and flags the styles that cannot reach it. When vendors in different countries quote for the same garment, the analyst normalises the quotes onto one landed-cost basis so the business compares true totals, not headline prices.

How Costing Differs from Its Neighbours

Costing is this category's analytical and financial angle, distinct from the distribution work under A and the demand work under F. Allocation asks where stock should go; forecasting asks how much customers will want; costing asks what each garment costs to make and whether its price can carry that cost. Readers comparing roles should start with the function they enjoy: quantities and stores point to allocation, prediction to the Forecast Analysts under F, and product economics to the Costing Analyst described here.