Apparel industry production planning

In the apparel industry, production orders tend to split into smaller orders with different product features in response to growing requests for product customization. In order to shorten product time-to-market, apparel manufacturers work hard in the direction of just-in-time production. In the apparel manufacturing process, the effectiveness of fabric-cutting schedule planning extensively influences downstream assembly operations, and thus, in turn, is critical to the overall system performance. However, the demand from downstream operation... 

In the new world of ever-developing technology and techniques, organizations must consider how to deal with the issues of increased competition, rising customer expectations, and increase in product variety. This chapter will discuss about various production systems, production planning in the apparel industry, supply chain and inventory management and various tools to improve the productivity in the apparel industry. 

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