Postponement Application in the Fast Fashion Supply Chain: A Review

Supply Chain Management in Fast Fashion

Postponement and Information in a Supply Chain

We model a supply chain consisting of a production facility, a distribution center and two differentiated markets. Demand information is used to mitigate the effects of uncertainty in the output markets. We study the firm’s operational performance under alternative business processes, comparing early and delayed product differentiation. The comparison yields the value of postponement. Our resul...

Postponement Strategies for Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Fast Fashion in the Moroccan Apparel Supply Chain: a Case Study

The apparel supply chain is a dynamic industry made distinctive by demand uncertainty and the handling of very many Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) during one season, which make it impossible to forecast demand accurately. Hence, apparel brands have to continuously maintain reactivity to the changing trends in consumer fashion tastes through quickly creating new designs that are suitable for all cus...

Fashion Supply Chain Network Competition with Ecolabelling

In this paper we develop a competitive supply chain network model for fashion that incorporates ecolabelling. We capture the individual profit-maximizing behavior of the fashion firms which incur ecolabelling costs with information associated with the carbon footprints of their supply chains revealed to the consumers. Consumers, in turn, reflect their preferences for the branded products of the...