Transforming Apparel & Footwear Supply Chains

ABOUT THIS WEBINAR
The apparel and footwear industry has always been intensely competitive even in the best of times – and is currently in the midst of dramatic and disruptive change impacting all the key players across the supply chain. Rapidly changing customer purchasing habits; the need to improve environmental sustainability and social compliance; and relentless competitive pressure on quality, cost, and delivery are some of the leading factors driving this change.

In addition, disruptions brought about by the Covid-19 crisis – leading to lost sales, smaller order books, high attrition, cash-flow constraints, accumulation on non-moving inventories among others – has made the status quo and business-as-usual untenable for manufacturers and apparel/footwear brands alike.

In these extraordinary times, only organizations with exceptional focus on continual improvement and those intent on building a culture of excellence across the ‘end-to-end’ supply chain are likely to survive and thrive. Transformational thinking – building agility to respond to rapid changes across the supply chain, factories improving flow-efficiency through waste-free processes, improving right-first-time quality, buyers and factories developing ‘pull-flow’ thinking to improve On-time & In-full delivery rates while minimizing inventories – is the need of the hour. Learn how brands and manufacturers can take steps to start this mutually beneficial process in this session.

  • Business & finance
  • Career
  • Coaching
  • Education & learning
  • Professional development
AGENDA
  • Improving flow-efficiency is just as important as improving resource efficiencies across the supply chain
  • How manufacturers can improve flow-efficiencies in their factories by developing waste-free processes and through tools such as cellular layouts, line balancing and standard work
  • How organizations can attain long-term competitive advantage by building a continual improvement culture
  • How Kaizen™ thinking can be applied to improve environmental sustainability outcomes
  • Leveraging a people based, process focused, digitally enabled system to sustain the gains
  • How ‘Pull-flow’ thinking across the supply chains can deliver better On-time & In-full delivery outcomes, shorten lead times, improve cost competitiveness while reducing inventories.
ADDITIONAL INFO
  • Categories:
    • Business & finance
    • Career
    • Coaching
    • Education & learning
    • Professional development
  • Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
  • Price: Free
  • Language: English
  • Who can attend? Anyone with the event link can attend
  • Dial-in available? (listen only): Yes.
  • Dial-in Number: Please register for this Webinar to view the dial-in info.
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