Analysis of Product Complexity considering Disruption Cost in Fast Fashion Supply Chain

Outsourcing in the textile industry has been playing an important role in the global economy for six decades. Recently, reshoring is an emerging trend due to various complexities involved in supply chain management. As compared with basic textile and apparel products, fast fashion products are compl...

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Published in:Mathematical problems in engineering 2015-01, Vol.2015 (2015), p.1-15
Main Authors: Sardar, Shaheen, Lee, Young Hae
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Category management
Clothing industry
Competitive advantage
Complexity
Cost analysis
Disruption
Distribution costs
Fashion goods
Fashion models
Fast fashion
Garments
Global economy
Inventory
Inventory management
Manufacturing
Mathematical models
Outsourcing
Product design
Product life cycle
Retail stores
Supply chain management
Supply chains
Textiles
Trends
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Summary:Outsourcing in the textile industry has been playing an important role in the global economy for six decades. Recently, reshoring is an emerging trend due to various complexities involved in supply chain management. As compared with basic textile and apparel products, fast fashion products are complex in their own way. A single assortment contains several new styles, colors, and sizes with unpredictable demand and urgent deadlines. Numerous assortments run simultaneously in the supply chain. For each assortment, the garment manufacturer has to source various types of fabrics and materials from different suppliers and then manufacture the garments to ship within the deadlines. This complexity contributes to supply chain disruption. This paper develops a model to estimate supply chain disruption cost as a function of fast fashion product complexity in the global outsourcing environment. Estimation of disruption cost will help us to increase visibility and eliminate the bottlenecks in supply chain. Model conclusions are used to develop a method to manage the level of product complexity from the global supply chain perspective. Several strategies are proposed to manage the impact of product complexity on supply chain design.
ISSN:1024-123X
1563-5147
DOI:10.1155/2015/670831