Massive changes of the market conditions of the German apparel industry created severe changes of the organizational structure of apparel companies and initiated a substantial transformation process. On the other hand rising product development costs cause increasingly problems. To be able to react to the requirements of the market, it has become necessary to shorten the lead and delivery times and to reach at the same time a fairly higher flexibility.
In a joint effort between distribution, product management and sourcing it often comes to coordination problems equaling often and symptomatic with small production orders. This creates many problems and most of all costs the companies valuable margins. These challenges can solely be solved by coordinated strategies, which are the core messages of this seminar.