How Does The Apparel Industry Improve The Fast Response Of The Supply Chain?

According to the world clothing shoes and hats net, in recent years, stock has become

The shoe industry is in big trouble.

On the one hand, the enterprises that consumers need is not. On the other hand, the consumers of enterprises do not need to stock up in large quantities.

Some media exaggerated that three years without production, clothes can not be sold out.

Famous enterprises such as

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XTEP, Anta, PEAK, from time to time broke the problem of high inventory.

The backlog of equipment produced by Sany is due to the end of the 4 trillion stimulus package and the low demand. Clothes are worn by everyone, no matter how big the women's wardrobe is and how many styles they are wearing. What are the clothes and shoes that they worry about everyday? Why do they keep so much inventory in the clothing industry?

The reason is not that the garment industry is backward, worse than before, but because the business expansion is too fast and the demand is over diversified. The traditional low-cost supply chain can not meet the requirements of the business.

This seems to be the common failing of many industries to a certain stage.

For example, the household appliance industry more than ten years ago, inventory is a big problem. Changhong color TV has to write off billions of inventory, because the production and supply chain system can not keep up with the development of the business under the national and global expansion strategy.

However, after ten years of "missed lessons", the household electrical appliance industry has effectively managed the demand from an uncontrolled "horse race enclosure" to a relatively restrained expansion and growth. On the other hand, the overall supply chain management level of the industry has been further improved, although the inventory problem has emerged from time to time, it is mainly a company case rather than an industry disaster like the clothing industry.

For the clothing industry, especially in the fashion industry, enterprises are aware of the importance of diversification. Many clothing companies are all in line with ZARA, and even say that 10000 kinds of styles are launched every year.

However, although their slogan is "fast fashion", their production and supply chain system is not fast, and still remains in the era of economies of scale, with slow response and long response period. The result is a shortage and backlog.

It looks like two different problems. The root is the same: the product adopts differentiation strategy, while the supply chain is not a responsive supply chain, and the two do not match.

Ryui Masa, CEO of UNIQLO, said: "in general, the essence of the fashion industry is not continuous improvement or the production of flawless fabrics, but the pursuit of trends", which needs quick response supply chain support.

For ZARA, H&M and other widely praised industry benchmarks, its advantage is not so much a product design as a highly responsive supply chain, so that enterprises can quickly follow up the latest trend.

Controlling the variety of clothing and slowing down the speed of expansion can alleviate the pressure of supply chain, but to really solve the problem, we need to start with improving the response speed of the supply chain.

A few months ago, I went to Ningbo to visit Mr. Chen Hongzhao, general manager of Taiping bird dress department.

Mr. Chen is gentle and polite, and his speech is philosophical.

He said this sentence, the main idea is that the variety of women's clothing is the first problem that ladies meet every morning: no matter how big the wardrobe is and how many clothes they have, everyone feels that they don't know what to wear.

The implication is that the characteristics of the industry are that enterprises can selectively serve some needs and give up others. For example, some companies focus on neutral clothing and some cover certain age groups; however, regardless of which field they enter, styles, colors, sizes, fabrics and seasons are all destined to diversify their needs.

The uncertainty of the tide determines that the plan is not as good as the change, and that the quick response of the supply chain is needed to make up for it.

Of course, from the operational point of view, a fabric, a color, a size of clothing is best to do, inventory control is best, but such a company will be closed.

Therefore, the clothing industry, especially the fashion industry, is faced with the problem of diversification. The deep-seated problem is that the production and supply chain lacks flexibility and can not respond quickly to changing demands. The solution is to improve the supply chain's rapid response under the premise of properly controlling product diversification.

Quick response depends on the following three aspects. Accordingly, enterprises should also work together.

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