6. OLD TEXTILE WORLD
Quota Constraints
Large Textile Capacity in US & Europe
Dispersed Garment Manufacturing
Huge Shipments of Semi-Finished Goods
Inefficient Supply Chains
Overcapacity & Cyclicality
Demand Growth Mainly US & Europe
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7. Typical call to arms:
Can Turkey compete
against China?
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8. Fashion Supply Channels
• Significant power shift in past three
decades in the UK
• Power move from manufacturer /
intermediary domination
• Channel domination in favour of retailer :
power in distribution (Hines, 2007)
9. Fashion Retailing –
Market Structure
• Distribution Fragmentation – dominated in
numerical terms by single-outlet, family
owned businesses
• Significant decline in numbers in past 10
years – by 40%
• Significant in volume, not however in
terms of market share levels
11. Fashion Retailing –
Market Structure
Market Concentration :-
• Clothing specialist chains : account for
68% of clothing spend
• Remainder – department stores, mail
order and food retailers
• Concentration of power : top 5 retailers
have a combined share of 43% in 2006
(Mintel, 2006)
• M&S : 15% market share
12. Fashion Retailing –
Market Structure
Concentration – why and how?
• Scale : number of outlets / national
coverage
• Customer patronage volume
• Own-brand domination
• Multi-segment coverage / diversification
• Multi-channel participation
• Adoption of a strategic management
approach
13. Multi-Channel Distribution
• Rapid change in perspective in past
decade with respect to viability and
potential
• Current challenge relates to multi-channel
integration
• Strategic advantage will emerge through
high brand / service delivery in a cost-
efficient manner
• Basis for international brand development
and expansion
14. New Entrants
• Supermarket and discount retailers ; pure
internet players
• Impact upon attitude but also participation
in clothing consumption
• Emergence of consumption polarisation :
Prada-Primark effect
• Price deflation
• Increase in clothing sales volume – but
decrease in value terms
15. Global Apparel Exporters
(Excludes EU, US and Canada)
45.7%
Source: World Bank 2005
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17. Rise of ‘fast fashion’
• Rapidly changing collections of high-fashion
garments – the speedy replication by high street
retailers of the latest fashion (catwalk) inspired
ranges – up to 20 collections per year
• Dependent upon short lead times and limited
availability
• Ability to refresh ranges in store is dependent
upon supply chain flexibility
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18. 2.. Retailing, post 2004
Responsive and Flexible
Retailer + Supplier:
From Catwalk to Coathanger
„Bring on
Sheila and Fred‟
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19. Fashion Supply, post 2004
Loss of quota protection
Supply chain concentration
Global sourcing but fewer producer countries
Number of suppliers will continue to fall
Logistics factors
Social & labour Issues
Non-competitive producers will suffer
Prices drop, volumes rise
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20. Globalisation of the Supply
Chain
• Move away from vertical integration of the textile-
apparel pipeline towards use of flexible global
subcontracting relationships e.g. Nike, Zara,
• The large-scale shift of labour-intensive garment
manufacturing operations of Western retailers to
developing countries with lower labour costs e.g.
China, Cambodia, Vietnam e.g. Top Shop, H&M
• Fashion products sourced from responsive
UK/EU/Asia suppliers with high customer service
capability eg. Benetton, Paul Smith
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21. Lean & Agile Supply
• Lean – for continuity products (26+ weeks)
– elimination of waste, including time, to
enable a level schedule and achieve cost-
efficiency
• Agile – for fashion products (13 weeks or
less)
– prioritising speed & flexibility to reduce
lead time & match supply to demand
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22. Lean & Agile
Mixed Mode Supply Model
2004
Fashion
Agile Route Trend
Fabrics
European Forecast
manufacturers
Yarns
Regional
Consumer
Distribution
Centre
Fabrics
Overseas
manufacturers Retailer
Commodity
Yarns Lean Route
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23. Typical global fashion supply
chain
Seasonal (13 week) fashion
Africa India China UK UK
• Example of cotton knitted product for DKNY
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24. Supply Lines from S.E. Asia
Spinning
Mill
Cotton
Fields
3,500 km Dyeing,
Weaving &
Knitting
Shipment to UK
6 – 8 Weeks
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34. What Retailers Want
All Merchandise sold at full price
Less stock in store or in transit
Responsive Suppliers
Social & Environmental Compliance
Fast & “On Time” Deliveries
Good Margins & Profits
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35. What Suppliers Want
Reliable Forecasts
Long Production Runs
No mid-batch changes
Good Buyer Relationships
No competition
Acceptable Margins & Profits
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36. 3. Responsive Retailing
Challenges
33% of merchandise is discounted
Forecasts are often wildly wrong
Many customers leave without buying
Distance adds cost
Logistics cost are rising
Hunt for Margin leads to longer lead
time, more errors, less reaction
time, markdowns etc.
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37. Multi Channel Retailing
•Selling across more than one channel
•Examine goods in one channel, buy them
in another and collect them from a third
channel, linked by a process of product
distribution
•Online UK Clothing Sales
2009: 26%
2010: 35%
2013: +50%
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38. Shirts: Retail Model
Ex-China Ex-Turkey
(C) Cost : $/piece 15.1 18.6 +3.5
(P) Price Point: $ 120 120
(S) Sell Through % 65 80
(m) Markdown ratio 0.35 0.20
(D) Discount rate 0.5 0.5
(G) Gross Margin 83.9 89.4 +5.5
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39. Turkey can still compete
•despite 5x China's labour cost
•if the merchandise is a fashion product
•and the delivery time to market is critical
RETAIL MANAGEMENT CHALLENGE !!!
INTEGRATED
SEGMENTATION, TARGETING &
POSITIONING Professor Neil Towers
40. The Dynamic Research
Framework, 2010
The Agile
Supply Chain
Demand Chain Management
Customer
Integration
Management
Components
Process
Integration
Agile Value
Merchandising Chain
Supply Chain Management
Virtual
Integration
Supply Chain
Structure
Network
Integration
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41. I. Seasonal Product
SE Asia fashion supply chain
Seasonal (13 week) fashion
China China China UK UK
Thomas Nash Woven Jacket at
Debenhams Professor Neil Towers
43. II. High Street Fashion
European supply chain
Short season (6 week) fashion
West China India Turkey UK UK
Example of Per Una (M&S)
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