An Overview of Demand Management through Demand Supply Chain
Read this article researching the challenges in the fashion industry to respond to ever-changing consumer tastes. While reading, think about industries other than fashion where managing production capacity is an ongoing task.
Textile and Apparel Processing
Textile and apparel processing consists of a number of activities prior
to stitching task which is usually more focused when parley about the
apparel product. The process of an apparel product production is quite
long and the process continues like in a pipeline. The traditional
pipeline system starts with an idea about a product, often generated
from a forecasted fabric or color, pushes that idea through a lengthy
product development period as well as through extensive
business-to-business market and production processes, and concludes with
a push type sale to a final consumer. Cao et al. mention textile-apparel SC is relatively complex because it
encompasses several chunks of manufacturing processes such as fibre and
yarn processing, fabric manufacturing/finishing, garment manufacturing
and retailing. They have found a such SC to be similar to conventional
forms of SC, i.e. the vertical integration process in which steps of
production and/or distribution of a product are controlled by a single
company or functional entities of an enterprise, in order to increase
that company's or entity's power, mainly in terms of cost or time
efficiency, in the marketplace. Although Cao et al. state that
vertical integration is not so common nowadays and even such integration
exists, it is only part of the company's business. This section aims to
provide a supply side overview of textile-apparel manufacturing
operations where the minor or side-line operations are not presented
elaborately.