Logistics Management Of Garment Enterprises

In recent years

The industry has developed rapidly and has made remarkable progress.

But at the same time, garment manufacturers are also facing fierce competition. Many garment enterprises are also exploring new ways to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Relying on its powerful information network, specialized operation mode, efficient distribution system and all-round service mode, modern logistics has played a huge role in improving product circulation frequency and reducing inventory cost.

The development of the logistics industry has become a very important part of the clothing industry.

In China's clothing processing enterprises, people often attach importance to design and production. As a support system for clothing production system, the essential logistics system has not received significant attention.

With the progress and wide application of modern logistics management concepts, methods and technologies, garment production and processing enterprises begin to focus on their own logistics system.

Logistics refers to the physical movement of material entities from suppliers to consumers.

It consists of a series of economic activities that create time value and space value, including pportation, storage, distribution, packaging, loading and unloading, circulation processing and logistics information processing, and many other basic activities, which are the integration of these activities.

Because of the reasons of garment enterprises, the logistics of garment enterprises has its own characteristics.

As garment production enterprises, the procurement, pportation, storage of various raw materials (fabrics and accessories), the management of various materials in the production process, and the storage, pportation and distribution of semi-finished products, finished products occupy an important position in enterprises. It is an integrated system with rich connotation.

Most clothing production is a large number of orders for the production of typical, clothing itself has seasonal and diversity (style, color, size) characteristics, clothing sales is also a complex process, which has brought difficulties to logistics management.

Business managers hope to solve many problems through strengthening logistics management, such as the problem of excessive inventory, the problem of packaging in pportation, the various attributes of goods in the sales process, and the return management.

Because clothing has a strong timeliness, clothing logistics is responsive to demand, and the lead time from accepting orders to delivery should be reduced as much as possible, and the communication of logistics information must be timely and accurate.

The clothing industry has many facets and is very sensitive to the trend. The cycle from design to finished product listing is very long. The new products that will be released every year will start designing, finding suppliers, processing and re distributing them long time ahead. This characteristic requires that the practitioners have enough funds to support enough capital chain.

The operation process of general garment enterprises is: clothing exhibition, customer orders, internal sales - (production) - plan - fabric demand - fabric purchase - production - delivery - provincial agent - two level agent - consumer.

The order period of clothing is different from that of other products.

The general brand clothing will be ordered two times a year, one is spring and summer, the other is autumn and winter. After the order meeting, it will be manufactured according to the quantity of the franchised stores and dealers.

In fact, the volume of production is not consistent with the order quantity. Each garment enterprise has its own plan, specially responsible, and the number of reservations of each franchised store or dealer is just a reference.

The plan of garment enterprises is largely based on personal experience.

The enterprise then arranges production according to the order and its own plan, and then goes public at a specified time.

It is difficult for the clothing industry to control inventory or speed up capital turnover, which lacks flexibility.

Compared with other types of clothing, casual wear cycle is shorter, some casual wear orders will open six to eight times a year, while a casual wear style sales usually take about two weeks. If a new casual wear goes on sale for a week, the casual wear will have a large backlog.

For the apparel industry, inventory is a serious problem affecting the development of enterprises.

The order will be produced, and there should be no stock in common sense. In fact, the market changes are hard to grasp.

Some unexpected events, such as the 911 incident, all the clothes in the American market are not sold. Only patriotic clothing is popular, but the clothes that have been planned before the normal production have been produced, which has a lot of backlog.

There are two main categories of clothing inventory, factory inventory and channel inventory.

In general, the main way to clean up inventory is to pfer the stock to the channel, and the final sales will have to be completed through channels.

Therefore, cleaning up channel inventory is the key to digest inventory.

Usually, the most practical way is to shift the inventory level to the first level, and then through the terminal's large-scale promotion, through special offer, buy gift and other means, to encourage the stock to sell more goods.

During the season, many clothing stores are offering discounts and special sales. In fact, this is the return of funds. The backlog of inventory has taken up a lot of cash, making it impossible for garment enterprises to redevelop in the next quarter.

At present, many clothing enterprises use bar code technology to carry out inventory management.

Specific methods include continuous inventory control system, periodic inventory system, non mandatory replenish stock system, material demand planning inventory system and so on.

The distribution of clothing enterprises is basically done by enterprises themselves.

After the production, before the listing will be based on the location of each store to give the corresponding goods, then the distribution is generally direct delivery to the various points of sale.

But when the goods were pferred, for example, some of the shops sold well, while the other stores were just the opposite.

Location of distribution centers.

According to the outlets of the outlets, the distribution center can set up a distribution center and two level distribution centers in turn according to the number of channels, stores, counters and the extent of distribution.

The location of the channel is generally located in the area close to the distribution center, and evenly distributed, which is not only conducive to supply, but also conducive to the mutual pfer of goods between channels.

Determine the rational layout and the best delivery route, shorten the time of clothing in pit, minimize the intermediate links, minimize the cost and minimize the cost of distribution, and maximize the profit of garment enterprises in scale management.

From the perspective of development, distribution center is essential for garment enterprises.

The distribution center of clothing enterprises mainly has three modes: self distribution center, agent distribution center and joint distribution center.

In order to co-ordinate the strength, capital and scale of the enterprise itself, we can choose a more reasonable model for construction.