To meet the requirements of the AGEC law and new consumption patterns, the textile industry must align its production and source supplies as precisely based on sales.
Stocks are expensive and the destruction of unsold goods is now prohibited, so brands must now focus on streamlining supplies , buying in small quantities and planning orders as best as possible.
It is important to have good control of your supply structure , to remain agile in your production in order to be able to react as quickly as possible.
With shorter supply cycles and real-time production splitting, brands can respond more precisely to consumer demand and limit their inventory and unsold stock.
The implementation of a collaborative platform bringing together all actors in the supply chain helps brands to monitor their raw materials and components, their production in real time and allows them to adjust production quantities according to sales.
This makes their processes more agile and allows them to react quickly to customer needs and expectations. By precisely adjusting their production, they can also minimize their inventory.
With the e-SCM solution, procurement, production and distribution are digitized and optimized so as to be able to respond in an agile and flexible to business needs, in order to move towards streamlined production .
This agility leads to shorter lead times and reduced inventory, which will allow the brand to achieve significant gains (reduced costs, shorter time to market, increased profitability).
Limiting unsold goods also leads to gains in recycling and upcycling issues.
e-SCM supports the implementation of this new model which aims for more responsible and sustainable production for brands.
Purchase Order's SPLIT" function quick and easy splitting of an order while preserving all original data. This function is available at every stage of the process to meet the needs for flexibility, responsiveness, and traceability, while adapting to industrial constraints .
This involves defining, with the supplier, a production and delivery schedule based on the factory's production capacity, the lead times for replenishing raw materials, or the delivery schedule expected by the distribution channels.
It is possible to link production batches to batches or origins of raw materials to have traceability on each batch of finished product.
In case of production delays or to respond to a business emergency, the SPLIT allows you to define a priority shipment for part of the production by choosing an express transport method to accelerate delivery to the warehouse.
For example, it is also possible to respond to a customer requirement by receiving the quantity of product to finalize a customer order preparation, for example, and avoid a delivery in several installments which can cause penalties or additional transport costs.
The brand can separate a production batch with specific packaging instructions or distribute production across different warehouses with different shipping conditions, thus reducing customer order preparation costs and promoting CrossDock, for example.
e-SCM, a tool for supply chain managers
To successfully transform with agility, brands will need to accelerate their digitalization, rethink their supply processes and their internal/external organizational model.
Supply chain managers will thus be able to rely on the e-SCM solution to secure supplies, manage production planning and guarantee product traceability, in consultation with suppliers.
