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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Determine job requirements
   • Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs)
   • Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
   • Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
   • Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions
2. Prepare to procure and cost millinery items
   • Administer stock-take to assess current and future millinery supply needs
   • Identify quantity and special features of millinery supplies
   • Document millinery supply requirements
   • Note special orders and timing requirements from specification sheets
3. Identify millinery supply resources and estimate price
   • Identify required millinery supply resources
   • Establish relationships with millinery suppliers and other relevant businesses to facilitate the procurement of millinery supplies
   • Document details of procurement suppliers and characteristics
   • Make initial price estimation on millinery orders and advise client
   • Document estimated price
4. Procure millinery supplies
   • Arrange procurement of common and uncommon use items with consideration to price efficiency, delivery reliability and suitability for desired outcome
   • Prepare documents and process to procure millinery supplies in accordance with workplace procedures
   • Document pricing
   • Manage payment of millinery suppliers according to workplace procedures
5. Calculate sale price and manage financial records
   • Calculate costs of millinery raw materials, labour and additional expenses incurred in production of the item, according to workplace procedures and government taxation regulations
   • Calculate total price and prepare client invoice according to workplace procedures and government taxation regulations
   • Document procurement and business expenses
   • Document invoicing and client sales
   • Document financial transactions, process and manage according to workplace procedures and government taxation regulations

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.
Workplace procedures include one or more of the following:	requirements prescribed by legislation, awards, agreements and conditions of employment SOPs work instructions PPE oral, written and visual communication quality practices, including responsibility for maintenance of own work quality and contribution to quality improvement of team or section output housekeeping tasks related to environmental protection, waste disposal, pollution control and recycling
Millinery suppliers include one or more of the following:	local millinery suppliers national millinery suppliers international millinery suppliers online auctions for millinery suppliers web based millinery suppliers suppliers for uncommonly used millinery items researching and identifying alternatives for unavailable or high price millinery items suppliers of items for specific orders to meet the timing and material needs of the client
Initial price estimation includes:	using construction design specifications to identify raw materials required using supplier documentation to estimate pricing on raw materials using workplace procedure and personal experience to estimate labour requirements identifying additional expenses incurred in producing the item determining government taxation requirements providing initial price estimation, which reflects total estimated price for specific order, to the client
Procurement practices include, but are not limited to, the following:	millinery pricing information required for procurement transactions labour charges business pricing principles product alternatives lead time on orders

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria, and include:

reading and following work instructions, standard operating procedures (SOPs), safe work practices

conducting and recording stock-take of supplies

identifying and recording millinery requirements

assessing and comparing suppliers on price, reliability, efficiency and product quality of desired products

negotiating price with suitable suppliers and clients and purchasing required items according to organisational procedures

making preliminary price estimates on at least two (2) products to be made

calculating costs of millinery raw materials, labour and additional expenses incurred in production of at least two (2) items, according to workplace procedures and government taxation regulations

calculating sale prices of items

maintaining financial records

assessing supplier efficiency and product quality

documenting procurement transactions, procurement and business expenses, invoicing and client sales

maintaining accurate records.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence must be provided that demonstrates knowledge of:

safe work practices and procedures and use of personal protective equipment (PPE)

millinery policies, standards and guidelines, industry codes of practice, legislative and regulatory requirements

industry, workplace and production processes

a range of textiles and materials used in millinery items

local, national and international industry suppliers

procurement practices, including:

millinery pricing

information required for procurement transactions

labour charges

business pricing principles

product alternatives

lead time on orders

quality practices

workplace procedures

recording and reporting practices.

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