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How to Secure Quality of Imported Garments. Garment Apparel

How to Secure Quality of Imported Garments. Garment Apparel The world has come closer and is shrinking by the day, thanks to the internet. With the shrinking world, the political borders are also diminishing in context to business and trade. Although trade and business have crossed boundaries since times immemorial yet with time and the advent of technology things have become easier. A South American in Brazil actually selling in Asia or probably outsourcing from Europe and selling to a buyer in Asia. It could be anything. Although the boundaries have diminished the physical distances remain the same, and these physical distances bring in ‘time’. Covering a physical distance is time-consuming and a cost is attached to it and what if the shipment doesn’t arrive or probably doesn’t hold the committed quality standards? The loss cannot be mitigated and a question arises how secure and quality are these shipments of imported international apparels? Well a few steps can actually save...

Why is the pursuit of excellence through lean so difficult? Garment Apparel

Why is the pursuit of excellence through lean so difficult? Garment Apparel As per my understanding, biggest cause is that management doesn't understand the basic fact that LEAN is a thinking system that includes tools not a system of tools. Implementing these tools in a factory without specific just-in-time purpose is a common form of “lean implementation. Toyota has developed these tools to meet their requirements, not every factory's requirements. These tools were developed for the automobile industry, not for every industry. Copy-paste is the main reason for failure. Lean is a process of learning and improving continuously, most companies fails because they quit learning and return to the previous stage (their comfort zone) where they were before doing lean. The company doesn't need to 'DO' lean, they need to 'BECOME' lean. To BECOME lean organization needs to change its ‘Corporate Culture’ first, then improve (or change if required) its workin...