...| Supply Chain Management Assignment | | | M P A Bhagirath (GMAY14CMM015) | 9/17/2014 | Preparing a report on the uses of RFID in the retail sector and analyzing its advantages and disadvantages and check whether RFID truly improves the Retail sector or not. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION: 2 Apparel Retail Sector: 2 RFID in Apparel Sector: 3 Challenges in using RFID in Apparel Industry: 5 Conclusion: 5 Bibliography 6 INTRODUCTION: In the present day and age identification of all the objects in the supply chain is of vital importance. This is to create an ideal world where not only humans communicate with each other but each and every object in the supply chain system communicates with the computer. This makes the system easily to run and highly efficient. It also makes the identification of resources and recognition of each and every object in the system easy. This would in turn help all stakeholders as there is continuous flow of information and there is high visibility in the entire system. RFID is an important technology that lets us achieve the above mentioned state of easy flowing communication amongst partners. It use radio frequency to locate objects that are even not in the line of sight. This automatically makes the system identify every object easily and efficiently (Sheng,Li, & Zeadally, 2008). RFID has been around for over half a century but has grown prominence in the recent years. This is because the cost of RF tags have dropped...
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...Travelling textiles A sustainability roadmap of natural fibre garments May 2009 This report has been prepared by Emer Diviney and Serena Lillywhite at the Brotherhood of Laurence Sustainable Business Unit. Brotherhood of St Laurence 67 Brunswick Street Fitzroy Vic. 3065 ABN 24 603 467 024 Ph: (03) 9483 1183 www.bsl.org.au the HUB of responsible business practice in Australia is a project of St James Ethics Centre © St James Ethics Centre 2 Contents Acknowledgments Summary Introduction Key findings The way forward Recommendations Introduction Brotherhood of St Laurence Gorman Industries Understanding the clothing industry Corporate responsibility and “sustainability” Developing tools for responsible business practice Roadmap methodology How we went about it Who we spoke to Overview of the garment supply chain The clothing industry roadmap Key sustainability issues in the garment sector Case study: Gorman Who is Gorman? The Gorman roadmap: Merino Tee and Forest Dress Unpicking the garment roadmap Design and production management Wool and cotton cultivation Processing raw materials and yarn manufacturing Knitting and weaving Fabric processing Cut make and trim Retailing and wholesaling Consumer use Textile waste and disposal Freight Towards sustainable garments Garment industry drivers Sources of information the HUB of responsible business practice in Australia is a project of St James Ethics Centre ©...
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...factor for success in the Bangladeshi clothing industry. The research results address three groups of companies. Companies with a more developed brand name place more importance on advertising in the marketing communications mix, while the second and third groups of companies give more importance to personal selling. Differences between the groups are obvious, and these correlate to the development of a brand name. The ready-made garment (RMG) industry of Bangladesh started in the late 1970s and became a prominent player in the economy within a short Period of time. The industry has contributed to export earnings, foreign exchange, employment creation, poverty alleviation and the empowerment of women. The export-quota system and the availability of cheap labor are the two main reasons behind the success of the industry. In the 1980s, the RMG industry of Bangladesh was concentrated mainly in manufacturing and exporting woven products. Since the early 1990s, the knit section of the industry has started to expand. Shirts, T-shirts, sweaters and jackets are the main products manufactured and exported by the industry. Bangladesh exports its RMG products mainly to the United States of America and the European Union. These two destinations account for more than a 90 per cent share of the country’s total earnings from garment exports. The country has achieved Some product diversification in both the United States and the European Union. Recently, the country has achieved some level of product...
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...Note: Solve any 4 Cases Study’s CASE: I ARROW AND THE APPAREL INDUSTRY Ten years ago, Arvind Clothing Ltd., a subsidiary of Arvind Brands Ltd., a member of the Ahmedabad based Lalbhai Group, signed up with the 150- year old Arrow Company, a division of Cluett Peabody & Co. Inc., US, for licensed manufacture of Arrow shirts in India. What this brought to India was not just another premium dress shirt brand but a new manufacturing philosophy to its garment industry which combined high productivity, stringent in-line quality control, and a conducive factory ambience. Arrow’s first plant, with a 55,000 sq. ft. area and capacity to make 3,000 to 4,000 shirts a day, was established at Bangalore in 1993 with an investment of Rs 18 crore. The conditions inside—with good lighting on the workbenches, high ceilings, ample elbow room for each worker, and plenty of ventilation, were a decided contrast to the poky, crowded, and confined sweatshops characterising the usual Indian apparel factory in those days. It employed a computer system for translating the designed shirt’s dimensions to automatically mark the master pattern for initial cutting of the fabric layers. This was installed, not to save labour but to ensure cutting accuracy and low wastage of cloth. The over two-dozen quality checkpoints during the conversion of fabric to finished shirt was unique to the industry. It is among the very few plants in the world that makes shirts with 2 ply 140s and 3 ply 100s cotton...
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...of jeans into our trolleys along with the washing powder was once a novelty, it has now become the norm.” This quote is by Hilary Alexander the fashion director for the Telegraph (published in 2008 November on the Telegraph website under the title “Supermarket fashion sweeps aisles”.) Almost 20 years later (2 years since this article was published) it has come to a stage where not just a pair of jeans but high street fashion could potentially be available in supermarkets. With today’s economy in the state it is, the spending power of consumers has declined. The fashion industry is one that is very sensitive to price. Not being a necessary commodity consumers will spend on high street fashion mostly with any excesses in their budget. Therefore predicting where consumers would migrate during these times is vital. High street fashion is almost always sold in retail outlets that are dedicated to goods of a similar nature. With high overheads and the generally high markup of high street fashion this adds further to the price goods are sold. Garments available in supermarkets are not susceptible to these kinds of issues. Larger warehouses and buildings with ample parking and space could easily accommodate more goods and make better use of their economies of scale. Therefore high street standard fashion can be sold at cheaper prices in supermarkets. Research was done to establish the consumers responsiveness to high street fashion garments being available at supermarkets. By grouping...
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...Submited By Priyam Mehta (08059) Umesh Lukhi (08052) Submitted To Prof. Praneti Shah N R institute Of Business Management A GRAND PROJECT REPORT ON ―Purchase Pattern of consumers for Consumer Durables along with Preference towards Organized & Unorganized Retail Formats” IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF TWO YEARS MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMME PROJECT GUIDE Prof. Praneti Shah PREPARED BY Mehta Priyam (08059) Umesh Lukhi (08052) BATCH: 2008-10 N.R. Institute of Business Management Preface Before the liberalization of the Indian economy, only a few companies like Kelvinator, Godrej, Alwyn, and Voltas were the major players in the consumer durables market, accounting for no less than 90% of the market. Then, after the liberalization, foreign players like LG, Sony, Samsung, Whirlpool, Daewoo, and Aiwa came into the picture. Today, these players control the major share of the consumer durables market. Consumer durables market is expected to grow at 10-15% in 2007-2008. It is growing very fast because of rise in living standards, easy access to consumer finance, and wide range of choice, as many foreign players were entering in the market with the increase in income levels, easy availability of finance, increase in consumer awareness, and introduction of new models, the demand for consumer durables has increased significantly. Products like washing machines, air conditioners, microwave ovens, color televisions (C-TV) were no longer considered luxury items...
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...century it was almost solely the domain of kings, queens, aristocrats and other important people. As will be seen, great changes, mainly due to technology and increasing globalization, mean that we now have a fashion marketplace open to everyone. Fashion can be a reflection of the time, from the utilitarian clothing of the war years to the yuppie look of the buoyant 1980s. Fashion also can be a reflection of individuals. Clothes are often chosen to reflect among other factors our age, gender, lifestyle and personality. Because fashion is both a reflective and yet creative discipline, it is necessary for fashion marketers to be aware of the factors surrounding the market and develop a broad understanding of the issues that can affect the garments that are seen in any high street store. 2.2 The development of the fashion market 2.2.1 Origins of the modern fashion market Until relatively recently, fashion had always been élitist and was used by its adopters to show that they were above the common people. Even the inventions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the spinning jenny, the water frame and the sewing machine have not had as great an effect on the market as have cultural changes and the explosion of the media during the twentieth century. The Fashion Market and the Marketing Environment The end of World War I, in 1918, really marked the start of mass fashion. Style began to be influenced by the fashion designers of Paris, Milan, New York and London...
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...Guidelines for Project Work in Business Studies for Classes XI and XII w.e.f. the academic session 2012-13 and the Board Examination 2013. Dear Principal, Kindly refer to the Business Studies syllabus for Classes XI and XII pertaining to the Board Examination year 2013 which provides for Project Work of 10 marks in both the classes at senior school level. The Board has brought out Guidelines for Project Work for perusal of the Business Studies teachers. Kindly bring these to the notice of concerned teachers and students. The teachers are requested to ensure that the project work assigned to the students whether individually or in group are discussed at different stages right from assignment to drafts review and finalization. Students should be facilitated in terms of providing relevant materials or suggesting websites, or obtaining required permissions from business houses, malls etc for their project. The 16 periods assigned to the Project Work should be suitably spaced throughout the academic session. The teachers MUST ensure that the students actually go through the rigors and enjoy the process of doing the project rather than depending on any readymade material available outside. The revised Sample Question Papers (Theory) in Business Studies for Class XII will soon be uploaded on the CBSE website. Kindly bring these to the notice of concerned teachers and students. Yours sincerely N. Nagaraju Director (Academic) Encl.: Guidelines for Project work in Business Studies, Classes XI...
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...Guidelines for Project Work in Business Studies for Classes XI and XII w.e.f. the academic session 2012-13 and the Board Examination 2013. Dear Principal, Kindly refer to the Business Studies syllabus for Classes XI and XII pertaining to the Board Examination year 2013 which provides for Project Work of 10 marks in both the classes at senior school level. The Board has brought out Guidelines for Project Work for perusal of the Business Studies teachers. Kindly bring these to the notice of concerned teachers and students. The teachers are requested to ensure that the project work assigned to the students whether individually or in group are discussed at different stages right from assignment to drafts review and finalization. Students should be facilitated in terms of providing relevant materials or suggesting websites, or obtaining required permissions from business houses, malls etc for their project. The 16 periods assigned to the Project Work should be suitably spaced throughout the academic session. The teachers MUST ensure that the students actually go through the rigors and enjoy the process of doing the project rather than depending on any readymade material available outside. The revised Sample Question Papers (Theory) in Business Studies for Class XII will soon be uploaded on the CBSE website. Kindly bring these to the notice of concerned teachers and students. Yours sincerely N. Nagaraju Director (Academic) Encl.: Guidelines for Project work in Business Studies, Classes XI...
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...[pic] [pic]Economy of Bangladesh From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search |Economy of Bangladesh | |[pic] | |Kawran Bazar (A commercial hub of Bangladesh) | |Rank |48 | |Currency |Bangladesh Taka (BDT) | |Fiscal year |1 July - 30 June | |Trade organisations |WTO, WCO, IOR-ARC, SAFTA, D8 | |Statistics | |GDP |$256 billion (2010 est. PPP) | |GDP growth |5.7% (2009 est.) | |GDP per capita |$1,600 (2009 est. PPP) | |GDP by sector |agriculture: (18.6%), industry: (28.6%), services: (52.8%) (2009| | |est.) | |Inflation (CPI) |5.4% (2009 est.) | |Population |36.3% (2008 est.) ...
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...How do Global Retail Companies utilize Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? “A Comparative Study using Hennes & Mauritz (Sweden) and UNIQLO (Japan)” Authors: Greg Jogie Ayaz Shukat Master thesis – FE2413 Spring 2010 Supervisor: Eva Wittbom How do Global Retail Companies utilize Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? Abstract Abstract Corporations around the world are today acknowledging more and more the need of long-term sustainability strategies integrated into their core businesses. This has led to the use of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) framework. H&M and UNIQLO are no different. They are established global retailing companies and heavily affected by the consumers demand of a sustainable work process. The demands are often heard when news hits of problems in the supply-chain. This can be issues like unsatisfactory working conditions in factories, environmental issues caused by production and general imbalance of labor policies. Such problems have put pressure on the companies to enact a proper reporting framework for their sustainability efforts and that is the focus of this thesis. The objective is to understand how well the organizations‘ have been using CSR and the goal is to look at their behavior within their supply chain processes and their environmental focus. We will then benchmark them according to the sustainability measurement framework called Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). GRI is a framework widely used by the top global companies...
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...country as a whole; one particular sector, the Readymade Garment (RMG) industry was the beneficiary of privatization. From 0.2 percent in 1980’s, it came to 75 percent in 2004-05 of country’s total export. This industry employs 1.8 million people of whom 90 percent are women. Trade liberalization as a form of globalization followed by the imposition of quotas by US was the key input while entrepreneurs played the anchor role to take advantage of these conditions. Government also came forward with favourable policies for further growth. However, the quota oriented worldwide apparel trade came to an end on December 2004. What is going to happen in the Bangladesh apparel industry, which was predicted to lose its stake in an open market? This dissertation aims to discover the condition of the apparel industry as a whole at present and how the firms adjust to the situation with their internal rearrangement. Additionally, issues considered as vital for industry’s growth, such as infrastructure, information technology in the form of database, internet and software, and capacity building will be discussed. The dissertation starts with the global picture of apparel trade, and with a brief description how this trade was ruled by Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) from 1974 to 1994 as designed by USA and later by Agreement on Textile and Clothing (ATC) under World Trade Organization (WTO) rule. This section also describes the importance of apparel industry in the context of Bangladesh, its...
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...2012 Assignment -1 Havells Submitted By:Kinjal Mittal (211067) Mohit Malik (211076) Nitish Dhaiya (211085) Nitish Singhal (211087) Pooja Gupta (211094) Priyanshu Aggarwal (211103) Rishi Kad (211112) INTRODUCTION Havells India Limited is a $1.3 Billion leading Fast Moving Electrical Goods (FMEG) Company and a major power distribution equipment manufacturer with a strong global footprint. Havells enjo ys enviable market dominance across a wide spectrum of products, including Industrial & Domestic Circuit Protection Devices, Cables & Wires, Motors, Fans, Modular Switches, Home Appliances, Electric Water Heaters,Power Capacitors, CFL Lamps, Luminaires for Domestic, Commercial and industrialApplications. Havells India Ltd. was founded in 1958 by Qimat Rai and since then it is powering the smiles of people like none other electrical brand in the country. Its global network constitutes of 7000 professionals across 91 branches & representative offices in over 50 countries. Its fourteen state-ofthe-art manufacturing plants in India located at Haridwar, Baddi, Noida, Sahibabad, Faridabad, Alwar, Neemrana and seven world class manufacturing plants located in Europe, Latin America & Africa are manufacturing globally acclaimed products, synonymous with excellence and precision in theelectricalindustry. Today, Havells owns some of the most prestigious global brands like Havells, Crabtree, Sylvania, Concord, Luminance and Standard.Today, Havells alongwith its brands...
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...NATIONAL MANUFACTURING COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL Enhancing Competitiveness of Indian Manufacturing Industry: Assistance in Policy Making Final Report March, 2009 Enhancing Competitiveness of Indian Manufacturing Industry: Assistance in Policy Making DISCLAIMER CRISIL Risk and Infrastructure Solutions Limited (CRIS), a subsidiary of CRISIL Limited, has taken due care and caution in preparation of this Report. This Report is based on the information obtained by CRIS from sources, which it considers reliable. CRIS does not guarantee the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of any information contained in this Report and is not responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the results obtained from the use of such information. This Report should be used in its entirety only and shall not be reproduced in any form without prior permission from CRIS. CRIS and any of its directors, representatives or employees do not accept any liability for any direct, consequential or perceived loss arising from the use of this Report or its contents. CRIS specifically states that it has no financial liability whatsoever to the users of this Report. Final Report Enhancing Competitiveness of Indian Manufacturing Industry: Assistance in Policy Making TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES...................................................................................................................................i LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS..........................................
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...quantities of items. Retail consists of the sale of goods or merchandise from a fixed location, such as a department store, boutique or kiosk, or by mail, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser.[1] Retailing may include subordinated services, such as delivery. Purchasers may be individuals or businesses. In commerce, a "retailer" buys goods or products in large quantities from manufacturers or importers, either directly or through a wholesaler, and then sells smaller quantities to the end-user. Retail establishments are often called shops or stores. Retailers are at the end of the supply chain. Manufacturing marketers see the process of retailing as a necessary part of their overall distribution strategy. The term "retailer" is also applied where a service provider services the needs of a large number of individuals, such as a public utility, like electric power. Shops may be on residential streets, shopping streets with few or no houses or in a shopping mall. Shopping streets may be for pedestrians only. Sometimes a shopping street has a partial or full roof to protect customers from precipitation. Online retailing, a type of electronic commerce used for business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions and mail order, are forms of non-shop retailing. Shopping generally refers to the act of buying products. Sometimes this is done to obtain necessities such as food and clothing;...
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