To Avoid Risk Of Rising Costs, Pathfinder Considers Part Of Capacity To Move Overseas.

The net profit of the Pathfinder in the first quarter of 2013 increased by 40-50% over the first quarter of the year, and its growth rate was faster than that of the revenue growth, largely thanks to its effective control over the cost. P

It is understood that the Pathfinder in order to enhance the overall cost performance of products, in 2012 in improving production in independent research and development results accounted for and strengthen the supply chain management and other aspects of remarkable results.

In recent days, China Merchants Securities participated in the 2012 performance exchange conference of the Pathfinder, the author said, in order to further reduce the outsourcing production costs, the future Pathfinder will consider gradually pferring part of the OEM capacity to overseas.

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< p > in the aspect of reducing cost, Pathfinder in 2012 developed 2 times the air permeability of the fabrics independently developed by TIEF, but the cost was only 40-50% of the original fabric.

The upgrading of R & D capability has played a positive role in the price performance and technology content of its products.

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< p > besides, supplier level management also brings bargaining advantage to the explorer's scale purchase. The decline in cost has prompted its gross profit margin to rise slightly in the autumn and winter products in 2012 on the basis of 20-30% reduction.

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< p > in order to further avoid the risk of rising costs, Pathfinder should consider pferring part of the OEM to overseas, and plans to cooperate with overseas factories in Bangladesh in 2013.

Bangladesh's current labor cost is only 30-40% in China, but the delivery cycle is relatively long. At present, the company's order to return period is 25-30 days, but Bangladesh needs 60-70 days.

Therefore, the Pathfinder says that it will only pfer large quantities and definite orders, so as to promote sales growth by reducing costs and improving product cost performance.

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< p > because of the rising labor costs, it has become a trend to seek overseas foundry.

Adidas and Nike have also closed down some factories in China and pferred their capacity to Vietnam, Burma and other places. Since the second half of 2010, customers have pferred part of the a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.91se91.com/" > clothing > /a > capacity to Bangladesh.

However, overseas foundry has cost advantages, but it also faces many problems, such as product quality, technical level, tariff, matching, surface accessories and pportation of garments.

China's < a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.91se91.com/" > textile > /a > enterprises must rely on scale effect to effectively reduce production costs by seeking overseas foundry production, which puts forward certain requirements for the supply chain management ability of enterprises.

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