BHC 007 Question Paper December 2025, IGNOU Diploma in Apparel Merchandising Management of Merchandising Function and Apparel Manufacturing

BHC 007 Question Paper December 2025 is the freshest practice tool you can put in front of yourself before walking into your 2026 Term-End Exam. The solved version takes each question apart slowly, with sourcing flowcharts, pattern-making sketches, and merchandising answers shaped exactly the way an IGNOU evaluator wants to read them.

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What is the BHC-007 December 2025 Question Paper?

The BHC 007 December 2025 question paper is the official IGNOU Term-End Examination paper for Management of Merchandising Function and Apparel Manufacturing, conducted in December 2025 for DAPMER and DAPMERA students. It carries 100 marks across eight questions in three hours.

Here's the part that matters: this is the most recent paper IGNOU has released for the course. Question patterns from the latest cycle nearly always echo into the next two sessions. Solving December 2025 thoroughly is the closest you'll get to a live preview of June 2026 or December 2026.

About IGNOU BHC-007 Management of Merchandising Function and Apparel Manufacturing

BHC-007 is a core course in the IGNOU DAPMER and DAPMERA programmes that bridges the merchandising function with the manufacturing floor. The syllabus splits into three working areas. The first covers sourcing: process steps, types of suppliers, vendor management, strategic versus traditional sourcing, nominated suppliers, and minimum order quantities.

The second covers pattern and pre-production: pattern-making methods, tools used, pattern grading, garment components like sleeves and collars, and spreading processes with their equipment. The third covers production management: total quality control, quality control importance, care labelling, sewing thread selection, and the relationship between fabric, thread, and needle. Most students underestimate how technical this paper is. The marks sit in step-by-step processes and labelled diagrams, not in general descriptions.

BHC 007 Question Paper December 2025, Exam Pattern and Marks Breakdown

Note the small difference here. Q1 is compulsory, and you choose only four more from the remaining seven. Plan your reading time so you pick four where you're strongest, not just the first four you read.

All Questions in the BHC 007 Question Paper December 2025 (Complete List)

Topics tested in this paper: sourcing process, supplier types, pattern making tools, pattern grading, garment components, spreading process, quality control, vendor management, textile sustainability.

Syllabus Topics Covered

The solutions in this PDF map cleanly across the BHC-007 syllabus. Q1 and Q2 pull from the sourcing block, with Q1's compulsory short definitions hitting nominated suppliers, MOQ, forecasting, and sustainability. Q3, Q4, and Q5 come straight from the pattern-making and garment construction block. Q6 covers spreading, sitting between pattern and sewing.

Q7 belongs to the production management and quality control block. Q8 short notes spread across all three blocks deliberately, including care labelling and the fabric-thread-needle relationship which are technical favourites. If you've prepared sourcing process, pattern grading, sleeve types, spreading equipment, total quality control, and the Q1 short definitions, you've covered the core mark-pool of this paper.

Sample Answer Preview: BHC-007 Merchandising Explanation

Take Q2, the 20-mark question on sourcing process and types of suppliers. It's a high-payoff choice because both parts are sequential and easy to score on once you know the structure.

Here's how those 20 marks actually break down:

Part (a) Process of sourcing (10 marks):

Definition (1 mark): Open with one line. Sourcing is the process of identifying, evaluating, and engaging suppliers to procure materials, components, or finished goods at the right cost, quality, and time.

Process steps with brief explanation (8 marks): Walk through the eight standard steps: needs identification, market research, RFI/RFQ floating, supplier evaluation and shortlisting, sample development and approval, price negotiation, contract finalisation, and order placement with follow-up. One short paragraph each. A simple flowchart with eight boxes connected by arrows earns the visual mark.

Indian context (1 mark): One line on how Indian apparel exporters typically source through hubs like Tirupur for knits, Ludhiana for woollens, Surat for synthetic fabrics, and Kanpur for leather.

Part (b) Types of suppliers (10 marks):

Categorisation (2 marks): Mention that suppliers can be classified by tier (Tier 1 finished-goods makers, Tier 2 component makers, Tier 3 raw-material providers) and by relationship type (transactional, preferred, strategic, nominated).

Description with examples (6 marks): Cover each main type with one paragraph and a real apparel-industry example. Manufacturer-suppliers, Tirupur knit factories shipping directly to brands. Wholesalers, Ahmedabad fabric markets supplying multiple buyers. Nominated suppliers, where the buyer specifies exactly which mill the manufacturer must use. Captive suppliers, in-house mills feeding a parent brand.

Comparison and selection criteria (2 marks): Close with a quick line on selection criteria, capacity, lead time, compliance certifications, and price competitiveness.

The full solution in your PDF follows exactly this structure, with the 8-step sourcing flowchart drawn out and a tier-classification table ready to copy.

How to Write High-Scoring Answers

Time first. 100 marks in 180 minutes works out to roughly 36 minutes per 20-mark question. That's enough room for 700 to 800 words with proper structure. Use it well.

Open every long answer with a one-line definition, even when not directly asked. IGNOU evaluators consistently award the first mark for it.

For BHC-007, illustrations carry serious weight. Pattern-making tools, sleeve cross-sections, spreading equipment, sewing needle types, all need clean labelled sketches. A neat sleeve sketch with the seam line marked often scores higher than two paragraphs of description.

For Q1's compulsory short definitions, two to three sentences each is enough. Don't write a paragraph for two marks. The whole point is brevity here.

For Q8 short notes, follow a fixed shape: definition, two or three features, one industry example. Each is worth 5 marks, so don't write a full essay. Examiners scan for structure first.

Indian apparel examples lift scores. Tirupur, Ludhiana, Surat, Bengaluru, Noida, naming the right hub for the right context earns easy marks.

Who Should Use This Solved Question Paper

This is built for the DAPMER and DAPMERA student whose Term-End Exam falls in 2026 or beyond. June 2026 candidate, December 2026 candidate, or back-paper attempt, the December 2025 release is your closest, cleanest practice resource for this paper.

Two student profiles benefit most. The working professional already employed as a merchandiser, sourcing executive, or production assistant who picked up IGNOU to formalise the qualification. And the first-time learner switching into apparel from a non-textile background who hasn't yet figured out what an IGNOU evaluator expects in a sourcing or pattern-making answer.

Self-employed boutique owners and small-scale apparel exporters will find the sourcing and quality control answers especially useful for real work.

Why This is Better Than Free PDFs and Telegram Files

Free PDFs look attractive until you actually open one. Most are old papers, badly scanned, with answers stitched from random blogs. Pattern-making tool illustrations are missing or so small the labels can't be read. Sleeve types get confused, set-in versus raglan versus dolman swapped in the descriptions.

The actual cost isn't money. It's writing the wrong sourcing process step in your real exam because you trusted a careless file. We've seen students put price negotiation before supplier evaluation in their answer because a free PDF had the steps reversed.

This solved paper is checked against the official IGNOU release, written by a subject expert with apparel industry background, and corrected when something needs an update. There's also a real human at the other end if you spot anything off.

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Explore More IGNOU BHC-007 Study Material

If this paper helps, you might also want the previous session solved papers (June 2025, December 2024), the BHC-007 assignment solutions for the current session, an important questions guide for last-minute revision, and topic-wise notes on pattern making and grading, which most students find the most technical-illustration heavy section. Bundle pricing kicks in if you pick up two or more resources together.