A lean retailing and the transformation of manufacturing--lessons from the apparel and textile industries
The apparel and textile industries have always been at the mercy of rapidly changing styles and fickle customers who want the latest designs while they are still in fashion. The result for these businesses, often forced to forecast sales and order from suppliers with scant information about volatile...
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New York
Oxford University Press
1999
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| Izvleček: | The apparel and textile industries have always been at the mercy of rapidly changing styles and fickle customers who want the latest designs while they are still in fashion. The result for these businesses, often forced to forecast sales and order from suppliers with scant information about volatile demand, is a history of stock shortages, high inventories, and costly markdowns. But, as the authors explain in A Stitch in Time, technological advances in the 1980s paved the way for a new concept in retailing--lean retailing |
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| Fizični opis: | 368 p. ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0195126157 9780195126150 |