| dc.description.abstract | With the phenomenal growth of the Internet and e-commerce, coupled with the influence of social media, brand apparel companies that rely on physical stores for revenue generation have encountered insurmountable challenges. Under the impact of fast fashion, the traditional garment industry′s product design, R&D, and production cycle appears to be very cumbersome and inefficient.
The focus of this study, Company K, is an apparel brand operator. It organizes a procurement conference every season, for its channels to place orders. However, every season, the order-related operations were delayed. This results in delays in subsequent operations, which in turn denting its revenue and profit. This study attempts to looking into the problem, and identified the major bottlenecks. First, the important information of the order placed is not clearly communicated to the officer in charge, who then work with insufficient reference information, resulting in repeated pre-order adjustments. Second, fabric consolidation and replacement related operations do not start before pre-order adjustments is completed. Third, there are many manual operations that are inefficient and error-prone.
This study proposes the followings. First, split the original operations into 2 processes. The first process digitizes related operations and adjusts the process, so that the fabric consolidation and replacement related operations can be performed concurrently with the pre-order adjustments, and the overall work efficiency could be improved. The second process allows some products to go directly to follow-up operations such as raw material procurement without the need to go through the pre-order adjustment process. Through these improvements, efficiency is expected to be vastly enhanced, and this in turn could result in more operating revenue and profit. | en_US |