Research Idea to

develop a
checklist of
possible issues
that can occur in
Research Methodology woven
fabric/product
REPORT category and can
be used to pre-
empt issues to
Submitted By: Disha Tewari merchandiser/ot
her department

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Contents

1. Research Methodology ............................................................................................. 3

Objective .................................................................................................................................... 3
Approach ................................................................................................................................... 3
Reference Material ..................................................................................................................... 3
Solution ...................................................................................................................................... 6

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 1. Research Methodology

Objective
 The main purpose of the project was to create a simple tool based on excel.
 To reduce the user search of information from search engine for possible issues faced in
a fabric/garment.
 Combine all the data into one tool and data search on click of a button.

Approach

 The project was started after employees at the company were facing a lot of issues in the
fabric and the garment stage in line review meetings
 The first step of working on the project was getting all data together from various sources
and get it validated.
 The most tedious and difficult job was cleaning the data and making a database at the
backend. This included a lot of follow up from employees of various department
 Next was the job of connecting all the data through coding in excel and making a search
tool
 After completion of the tool the next step was data validation that had to be done at
various levels to check any errors in the tool
 Next was the trial run phase where a trial run of the tool was done

Reference Material
The various data that had to be used and combined are given below:
1) Data was collated and brought from mill in China

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 Mill Data

2) Raw data was collated and noted in an excel sheet

Raw Data
3) Most used type of fabric and garment data was sorted with the mill team

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 Mill Data on commonly used Garment
4) Garment data was collated with different teams and noted with final editing

Garment Data
5) Fabric data was collated with different teams and noted with final editing

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 Fabric Data

Solution
The Macro tool is an Excel based tool that automatically searches data effectively for most
commonly used fabric and garment in Woven category in GAP based on data been added at the
backend.
This data can be modified/added/deleted with the help of admin rights which ensures the privacy
of the tool
The tool makes it easy for the user to search issues that can occur in a style base in Woven
category
On selection of drop down button for any combination like fabric type, dye type and weave type,
data is populated automatically for fabric
On selection of drop down button for any combination like garment type, dye type and weave
type, data is populated automatically for garment
1) This is how the tool looks like

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2) Data can be selected from the drop-down button highlighted in red

3) In case of any changes in the data (addition/deletion), admin (highlighted in red)

can login with the shared credentials and modify the data to save the work

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4) On click of Go button (arrowed in red), data for the selected match populates

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