Clothing Industry Quality And Safety "All Fronts", QA/QC Will Be Hard To Find.

With the frequent exposure of negative news such as "quality and safety door" and other negative news in domestic apparel industry, especially the foreign trade factories, because of foreign businessmen tightening up the import audit checkpoints for China's production of garments, many export garments were beaten back to the original factory or even destroyed due to quality problems, forcing all garment manufacturers to pay attention to the quality of garment production. Besides, the low price strategy of Southeast Asian emerging clothing export countries also had a great impact on China's clothing export trade, and high quality will become the winning weapon for China's garment factories to compete in Southeast Asian countries, so domestic garment manufacturers have increased QA.

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 level QA and QC lack systematic training, and the professional foundation is not ideal.

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 network of Elite Tennis Association, has come to a close. 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 and costumes.

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.

The quality of a single case is not clear. It is more difficult to continue to cooperate next time. Foreigners value the integrity of enterprises.

The "low price strategy" of Southeast Asian countries has exported Chinese clothing exports.

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.

China's textiles import and export

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 a very strong sense 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 the new garment exporting countries, which is cheaper to hire workers? Southeast Asian region? China's foreign trade garment manufacturers should change the traditional low dumping strategy and pay close attention to the quality of clothing and clothing.

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

The manager of the human resources department of a clothing enterprise in Shenzhen, Guangdong told reporters that this year, clothing enterprises generally had difficulty in recruiting workers. But QA/QC was ten times more difficult than ordinary assembly line workers. Last quarter, the company recruited designers, printing agents, merchandisers, regional managers, sales supervisors, tail supervisors, garment QA, inspectors and so on for nearly 20 jobs. For nearly three months, the number of applicants for designers was the most.

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.

Reporters also visited a foreign trade processing factory in Qingdao, a major European and American export garment manufacturer. Manufacturers told reporters that clothing trade was becoming more and more difficult. Due to the exposure of "quality gate events" such as Zara in China, more and more export orders and orders were exported. Many European and American customers shook their heads as soon as they heard that they were "Made in China". Even those who had worked together for several years stopped the contract and changed to cooperate 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 Europe, clothing is more stringent than the quality of clothing sold in the domestic market. Now the demand of European and American customers is getting higher and higher. There is really no way to do it. Dozens of manufacturers who have done foreign trade together have only a few established quality management departments. Now everyone has started recruiting QA and QC, and European and American customers have said that there is no quality guarantee, and the design is good, the style is new, the fashion is all in vain, the graduates returning to school are in the majority, while the inspectors and clothing QA who have definite years of work experience are 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 reporters that recently, the requirements of foreign customers for product quality were becoming more and more stringent. In particular, due to quality problems, several items of goods that had to be recalled were forced to hire quality management personnel such as clothing QA/QC, but the recruitment results were 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.

Laymen evaluate QA "easy work and high salary". What is the real situation? In fact, because of the fact that the domestic garment quality management system is not systematized, many QA employees have been living in a muddle for a long time.

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

Every day facing workshop workers, company management and customers, it will not blow how to do it. There is no unified ruler for customers to check finished garments. The same material may be too good for the customer to pass the house. The production masters in the workshop are not annoying. In addition to serious quality problems, it is not easy to 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! "

Mr. QA, a senior Qingdao foreign trade company, told reporters 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 the quality management system in the Chinese garment industry is still to be established. The enterprises need to improve the recruitment process of the quality management personnel as soon as possible, and increase the professional skills training of the QA and QC personnel, so that the Chinese clothing industry will survive the cold winter of quality and usher in the spring of the total explosion of sales.