Case Study Of Jossey Menswear's Supply Chain

Introduction Jossey Menswear, part of the Amedox Fashion Retail division, is a clothing retail company that has around 60 shops. All its tailored products including jackets, trousers and suits are made by Cornwall, a manufacturing factory. In order to get the right products in the right place at the right time, the company accomplished a quick response (QR) supply chain management system. Quick response (QR) approach has been well established in fashion supply chains which allow both retailers and supplier work as partners to increase the efficiency and profitability (Choi, 2013). Thus, the QR approach is significant in improving the company’s supply chain performance because of the reduction of the lead time and the improvement of the full price sales (FPS) volume.

Reduction of the Lead Time

During the QR approach, the retailer and the supplier share the real time customer demand date so they can accurate the faring decision. In the past, the designer need to predict the marketing trend base on the forecast data and they may not get the things right all the time because they may not know their customer base well enough so the sales volumes go up and down. Through QR

They select the volunteer to be the QR team members because they believe that although those volunteers are not the most skilled employee, they are the people who want the new system work and more willing to make it work. They ask the workforce for volunteers for the QR teams and finally they got 168 volunteers which exceed the needed 25 (Slack, 2002). In fact, the team was selected the people who performance lower than the departmental average, but they change into a multi-skilled team a year later. Also, the Cornwall factory allows the teams to choose their own name so that the team members feel cozier to work in the new