The case examines a project between a leading European retailer, Kaufhof Department Stores, and fashion merchandise manufacturer Gerry Weber utilizing RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). It shows how both players experienced significant cost, time, and inventory management improvements over the course of the 5-month project. These performance improvements occurred at both the warehouse level...

The purpose of the article is to analyze upgrading by looking at the design of fashion garments. To that end, I use the theoretical concept of contextual knowledge to understand the problems faced by firms, and their staff, that want to upgrade through design. Contextual knowledge combines a general knowledge of fashion with the lifeworld that actors use for interpretation of fashion. Lifeworld...

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...

The article examines the interaction of geourbanism and fashion industry in context creating a comfortable urban environment for buyers. author substantiates topic relevance considers scientific grounds its study. Special attention is paid to problems related comfort, as well importance style. possibilities an optimal environment.

TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Master’s Degree Program in Material Science AZHAR IQBAL, MUHAMMAD: Virtual Product Development and Management Opportunities in Fashion Industry. Master of Science Thesis, 85 pages, 2 Appendix pages November 2013 Major: Fiber, Textile and Fashion Engineering Examiner: Professor Heikki Mattila

A literature review of existing assessment frameworks for B2C websites over more than ten years reveals that they are all built bottom-up through an essentially empirical approach of recording functionalities/features without any theoretical construct to guide the design of the framework. In an attempt to develop a theoretically consistent framework, this paper first identifies all relevant ass...

It is very exciting to see how operations research methods and models can be implemented in various disciplines and areas of industry. In this paper, two integer programming (IP) models are proposed to solve the layout problem in the fashion industry. Before cutting, several layers of cloth are put on a cutting table and several templates, indicating how to cut all material for a specific size,...