Yangtze River Delta Survey: Service Enterprises Expand Production, Cautious Order Outsourcing Becomes Normal.

In 2010, in garment enterprises "

Not long ago, during a visit to Zhili, Huzhou, Zhejiang, a local dealer told him that some sewing days earned 200 yuan in the weaving mill. If the 30 days were calculated, the monthly income would be 6000 yuan.

The amazing news is more than that. In Pinghu, not far away from weaving, there is a pair of sewing workers who rely on processing orders from large factories.

Overnight, sewing workers seem to have entered the "high-income group".

Although the above is a case in point, the rise in the price of sewing workers in coastal areas has become a reality in the increasingly severe situation of "labor shortage".

Affected by this, the operating cost of garment enterprises has increased further, but this is not the most troublesome problem for garment enterprises.

One of the puzzling questions is that clothing companies have repeatedly increased the wages of sewing workers but are still facing unavailability.

The directors of enterprises often feel frustrated when they see the banner advertising "long term recruitment" outside the factory and lots of idle machines in the factory.

Severe employment problems have had a significant impact on related industries.

In the coastal areas where labor shortage is more serious, many people in the industry feel the market changes caused by "labor shortage".

In the previous "focus" thematic reports, many articles have talked about the coastal factories' construction of factories in the provinces and cities, and the pfer of clothing production to the source of labor.

The principle of proximity has become a way for many coastal garment enterprises to solve the problem of "labor shortage".

But building factories in another place is like "saving water near fire". It is not the first choice for garment enterprises to solve the problem of "labor shortage".

In order to complete the order, many coastal garment enterprises have explored new ways in the original "outward processing" mode to alleviate the shortage of orders in the near future.

This year, many garment enterprises boss encouraged our workshop director and team leader to build small factories outside, and they organized workers to conduct directional processing for them.

Under this processing mode, the new factory only needs tens of thousands of yuan to start the capital, and the ordinary machines such as sewing machine, sewing machine and so on can be put into production.

General post lock, button and other garment process, as well as ironing, packaging and other work is still completed by Dachang.

The production experience accumulated by the workshop directors and team leaders in the original factory will also help to check the quality of the processed garments.

Dealers in Yancheng, Jiangsu, said that some local clothing business owners not only encouraged workshop directors and team leaders to work alone, but also provided equipment for idle workers to use.

The newly built small factory is processed for it, and the processing cost will slowly deduct the cost of equipment.

This is not only conducive to the digestion and idle equipment of garment enterprises, but also to avoid the difficulty of recruiting workers, and it can save part of the labor expenditure.

Because many local clothing enterprises have not yet paid social insurance for all workers, many workers are willing to work in small factories when the income is calculated by piecework settlement.

For some mechanic who have to take care of the family, the strict regulations of the big factories to punch in and off work make it more inclined to work in relatively flexible and free small factories.

Similarly, in Suzhou,

Clothing factory expansion caution

Although garment enterprises can cope with the order and manpower shortage through directional outward processing mode, the fluctuation of order quantity will also breed various variables.

Especially for foreign trade clothing enterprises, there are still many variables.

In the fourth quarter of 2010, the yuan appreciated further against the US dollar, and foreign trade enterprises were greatly affected.

According to Chen Haiping, general manager of the standard Zhejiang sales and service branch, in Zhejiang, the domestic enterprises are obviously better than the export enterprises. Under the influence of the exchange rate, the export enterprises are more likely to take "small bills without receiving large orders, and do not receive long lists", in order to avoid more losses.

Because of the unpredictable economic trend in 2011, some garment enterprises also showed the hidden trouble of overdraft in the face of the sharp increase in orders in 2010.

"This year there are also some new and expanding factories for garment enterprises, but many garment enterprises only build their factories and do not dare to buy large quantities of production equipment."

Chen Haiping added.

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Qian Yuming, director of marketing at Zhejiang Zhili Wang clothing Limited company, said: "it is difficult to recruit personnel, the cost of management is increased, and capital investment is huge."

This year, Tong Wang bought a number of foreign computer sewing machines. The main purpose of this machine is not to upgrade production, but to use it as an image display.

The proportion of idle equipment in clothing enterprises is still very high.

Although the number of idle equipment is large, there is not a large number of second-hand equipment entering the market.

In Yancheng, Jiangsu, second-hand equipment is very tight, many dealers for second-hand equipment inadequate preparation and chagrin.

According to Chen Haiping analysis, even if the equipment idle rate of individual garment factories is as high as 60%, it will not necessarily be processed.

He said: "most factories currently put equipment on the side, and very few factories will deal with it.

There are mainly three kinds of enterprises to deal with. One is the small garment production workshop which has financial pressure and can not shelve equipment for a long time, the two is a small garment factory that is short of work, and the three is a factory or workshop that has failed in business and plans to withdraw from the clothing industry after the bottom of the market.

Clothing enterprises are well aware that recruitment will become more and more difficult, but they can not decide how to do it. If workers are recruited in the field, they will not be able to organize production immediately after they sell the equipment.

Before facing the "end of the storm" situation, garment enterprises will continue to wait and see.

Looking back at this year's market, domestic sewing equipment is hot, but not many, and many sales are driven by the rise of small garment factories.

How long will this situation last? No one can give a definite answer.