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.
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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
When:
Thursday, September 16, 2021 · 1:00 p.m.
IST
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.
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