Clothing Industry Quality And Safety "Full Alert" &Nbsp; QA Will Be Hard To Find.

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However, due to the factory's position requirements for QA and QC, the work experience is mainly focused on the work experience, while the low education QA and QC lack systematic training, and the professional foundation is not ideal, which makes the recruiters feel that the meat is few and the QA/QC is hard to find.

Clothing manufacturers: customer requirements are getting higher and higher without quality assurance.

In recent days, the nineteenth network recruitment fair in Guangdong area, which was hosted by the Elite Tennis Union's elite network, ended at the end of the curtain. There are 40 companies participating in the online recruitment fair. The posts include men and women designers, merchandisers, market development managers, sales supervisors, tail supervisors, clothing QC and so on 167 posts.

In many posts released by enterprises, the number of Posts related to garment quality management has been significantly improved.

A senior manager of a domestic clothing brand who does not want to reveal his name reveals that with the exposure of "brand casual pants quality door" and "plasticizer event for children's clothing", the board of directors of the company regards product quality management as the focus of next quarter's production.

Because the harm of quality and safety to brand is fatal, it will make consumers have a crisis of confidence in all products of the brand, and how much advertising fees can not be remedied.

The board of directors of the company decided to prepare for the rainy day and pay close attention to quality management. In the second half of the year, the recruitment of employees should be increased and the professional requirements for recruiters should be enhanced.

He also said that clothing quality management has always been the soft rib of the major brand clothing. Most of the domestic clothing brands rely on advertising and marketing to make a living. The huge advertising expenses cause the garment manufacturers to cut down production costs desperately. In the fabric selection and production process, they can use low-priced goods without considering the better quality high-grade fabrics and save one process. In this case, some manufacturers even do not set up quality management departments.

During this period, the frequent exposure of quality gate events, although the clothing industry has entered an unprecedented quality and safety "cold winter", has also given the attention to manufacturers who only care about sales volume and do not care about the quality, and has a positive role in promoting the unhealthy production atmosphere in the clothing industry.

The author also visited a foreign trade processing factory in Qingdao, a main European and American export garment manufacturer. The manufacturer told me that the clothing trade business is becoming more and more difficult. Due to the exposure of the "quality gate events" such as Zara, recently, the situation of exporting garments is running more and more, and many merchandiser reactions. European and American customers are shaking their heads when they hear that they are "MadeinChina". Even the customers who have worked together for several years have suspended the contract to seek cooperation with other countries such as India and Vietnam.

And the demand is getting higher and higher. In the last quarter, the amount of return has broken through the historical record since the plant was built.

"Originally exported to European clothing is more stringent than the quality of domestic sales clothing. Now the demand of European and American customers is getting higher and higher.

Dozens of manufacturers who have done business together with foreign trade have only a few set up quality management departments. Now everyone has started recruiting QA and QC, and European and American customers have said that there is no quality guarantee.

There is a quality problem. It's harder to continue to cooperate next time. Foreigners value the integrity of enterprises. "

Southeast Asian countries "low price strategy" to copy Chinese clothing exports, high quality has become the "MadeinChina" winning magic weapon.

According to foreign media recently, Vietnam's textile exports amounted to US $6 billion 160 million in the first half of this year, an increase of 30% over the same period last year.

If this trend continues, Vietnam's clothing and textile sector is likely to complete its export target of 13 billion US dollars in 2011.

China's textile and clothing exports this year show a downward trend.

Ms. Hu, director of the clothing department of the China Textiles Import and Export Chamber of Commerce, said that under the background of the financial crisis, China's textile exports to major countries are still growing, but this year there has been a downward trend, while exports from Southeast Asian countries are growing.

"In the past, 6 of the 10 garments in the US clothing market were made in China, and now only two or three."

According to 1~4 statistics this year, the number of textiles imported from China for the first time dropped by three to five percentage points, mainly due to domestic cost factors.

Ms. Hu analyzed that China's textile and apparel industry has a high market share in foreign markets, mainly relying on price advantage.

This year, the average price of Chinese textiles is higher than that of the United States imported from the world. At the same time, the consumers in the United States are more mature, and tend to choose inexpensive, quality and good clothing, so that the order is bound to shift.

"Other Southeast Asian countries also have high raw materials, but labor costs are not as high as those in China, such as Vietnam, where labor costs are only about half of that of China, reaching 5:3, so orders will go to low price countries and regions.

Although there are still some technical advantages in the relatively complicated Chinese clothing, the order has been pferred from China. "

If the industry chain of other countries is perfect, it will be very difficult for orders to return to China.

Qian Jingfang, director of the Department of textile economics and trade of Donghua University, thinks that compared with other Southeast Asian countries, the competitive advantage of Chinese textile enterprises lies in the relatively high quality of Chinese labor force, skilled workers, stable domestic political situation, and perfect industrial chain and rich management experience.

Mr. Wang, who works for merchandiser in foreign trade garment factory, said that he had a lot of confidence in negotiating with foreign clients in the past few years. The price and quality of the garments made by our factory were well received.

But in recent years, many customers have been lost, because compared to the "shortage of labor" in China's clothing industry, the cost of employing workers has increased again and again, while the cost of hiring workers in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Bangladesh and other Southeast Asian countries is less than 1/2 of China's average.

Moreover, the negative reports of quality and safety in the domestic textile and garment industry have also discouraged many foreign customers from thinking that "the clothes made in China may be harmful to the body".

This is a very big "trouble" in foreign countries with strong awareness of consumer rights protection.

To sum up, the pattern of China as a "world garment factory" is changing. How to deal with the low price strategy of Southeast Asian countries?

China's foreign trade garment manufacturers should change their traditional low price dumping strategy and pay close attention to the quality of clothing. In the process of garment production, a perfect quality management system must be launched.

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Clothing enterprise human resources department: QA/QC the most difficult recruit

The manager of Human Resources Department of a clothing enterprise in Shenzhen, Guangdong told me that this year, clothing enterprises generally appeared "recruitment difficulties", but QA/QC was ten times more difficult than ordinary assembly line workers.

Last quarter, due to business needs, a total of nearly 20 posts were recruited by designers, printing planner, merchandiser, regional manager, sales supervisor, tail supervisor, garment QA, inspector and so on. In nearly three months of recruitment, the number of designers was the most, among which the graduating students in the undergraduate colleges were the majority, while the inspectors and clothing QA who had clear requirements for work experience were not interested.

Of the 10 interviewees who applied for the position of clothing QA, 8 were high school or below, and only two were higher vocational education.

Most of the garment companies have inspectors' work experience, and have rich experience in production process and garment manufacturing technology, but they are not familiar with the relevant countries and overseas clothing and textile product quality standards. Only 3 of them can operate OFFICE office software skillfully.

Miss Xiu Xiu, director of the human resources department of a foreign trade garment processing factory in Qingdao, told the author that the quality requirements of foreign customers are becoming more and more stringent recently. Because of the batch of goods that have to be recalled due to quality problems, the factory has to hire QA/QC and other quality management personnel urgently, but the recruitment results are not satisfactory.

"This position is different from other posts, but there is no requirement for academic qualifications, but the work experience is very important.

However, mature QA and QC personnel basically can not be recruited.

Quite a number of applicants have experienced relevant inspectors' work experience, but they still have a certain understanding of all kinds of dyeing processes such as dyeing, hanging, embroidery, hand knitting and so on. However, the contact with various kinds of clothing materials is not enough. Especially in the national and overseas clothing and textile products, the quality standard is basically an outsider. Although it can cope with the basic inspection and quality inspection work, the quality system management and preventive control work of the enterprise is very difficult.

Recruitment can only be done first, and then through the internal training and further education system, we will be able to work.

"The mature salary of garment QA will also rise in recent years. In the critical period of frequent quality and safety problems, enterprises will not sit idly by the loss of key personnel of garment QA, which will increase the difficulty of other enterprises' recruitment of garment QA, and there is no way to recruit potential quality inspectors or retain them through internal training."

QA practitioners: "details push the list" and "depend on the mixture will blow".

As the top-level building of clothing quality management system, clothing QA compared to QC, has higher requirements for the comprehensive quality of employees.

What is the real situation of QA?

In fact, because the quality management system of domestic clothing has not been systematized, many QA employees are confused, and they do take a high salary map "leisure".

An unnamed clothing QA staff told the author, "QA said that it is an industry dealing with people.

Every day facing workshop workers, company management and customers, will not blow how?

There is no uniform ruler for the customer to examine the finished garments. The same workmanship may be enough for the customer to pass the house.

In the workshop, the production masters are not annoying. Unless there are serious quality problems, they should not easily disrupt the work of the production workshop.

And whether clothing QA is responsible for the work, the enterprise can not be evaluated at all, there are too many uncontrollable factors in the production process, and shirk responsibility is very simple. The key is to see if you will say it! "

Another senior QA stone from Qingdao foreign trade company told me that if you want to become a qualified QA staff, you must be an experienced, solid and comprehensive technical personnel.

First, there must be a line of work experience to understand the characteristics of all kinds of fabrics and clothing technology; if engaged in foreign trade clothing factory QA work, the requirements for oral English are also very high; in addition, there are many products of clothing, there may be some problems that you have never heard of. You can discuss with the workshop workers at this time. At this time, you need to have a certain level of art of speaking, and at the same time pay more attention to the learning and accumulation of professional knowledge in the clothing industry. You should get a clear understanding of the differences of textile and clothing production standards and sizes in different countries. Sometimes, the forward-looking suggestions and production control of the production technology can save the factory from the loss of the brokerage and the direct benefits of bringing the order and new cooperation opportunities.

Therefore, the establishment of China's garment industry quality management system is still in store. It is still necessary for enterprises to improve the recruitment process of garment quality management personnel as soon as possible, and increase the professional skills training for QA and QC personnel, so that China's garment industry will get through the quality problem in the "cold winter" and usher in the spring of sales volume.