Best Practices in Managing Retail Fashion Supply Chains
Course Info
Code PO1-116
Duration 5 Days
Format Classroom
Course Summary
Retail fashion is a highly volatile market and managing supply chains in this sector requires agility, flexibility, and swift decision-making skills.
This course provides you with a comprehensive understanding of key supply chain issues and strategies specific to the retail fashion sector. You will examine trends specific to retail fashion such as fast fashion and online retailing. A key area of focus is global supply chains and the implications of sourcing, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability on supply chain logistics.
- Develop an understanding of the retail fashion sector and effective supply chain management.
- Discuss shifts in the fashion industry and the impacts of fast fashion, luxury fashion, online retail, and globalisation.
- Identify the types of sourcing strategies and their relationships to supply chain responsiveness.
- Examine in-store and online customer services.
- Explore social and environmental issues involved with offshore production
- Retail Fashion Owners, Managers, and Professionals
- Any retail-related professionals including distributors, commercial property managers, and manufacturers
This course uses a variety of adult learning styles to aid full understanding and comprehension.
Participants will review case studies to highlight key areas of importance and possible areas for faults.
They will be supplied with the best tools required to carry out learning exercises to improve their skills. Participants will analyse the examples to gain a thorough understanding of how these skills, techniques and methods apply in the workplace.
Course Content & Outline
- Examine the role of fashion in culture.
- Understand the rapidly evolving environment of retail fashion .
- Discuss the growth of fast fashion and its impact on corporate social responsibility (CSR).
- Review the characteristics of the luxury fashion sector.
- Explore the online revolution on fashion and the resulting logistical challenges.
- Examine the impact of globalisation on fashion supply chains.
- Describe sourcing strategies including offshore sourcing and outsourcing.
- Examine the nature and types of outsourcing.
- Compare and contrast offshore sourcing and re-shoring.
- Discuss supply chain responsiveness for different product categories.
- Differentiate between lean, agile, and leagile supply chain management strategies.
- Describe retail supply chains for physical locations.
- Examine the features of in-store consumer services.
- Discuss the design and strategies of retail logistic systems.
- Review recommendations to enhance in-store customer services.
- Describe online retail supply chains for fashion.
- Review the benefits of streamlining customer experiences using omnichannel retail.
- Examine the design considerations for omnichannel logistics.
- Review recommendations to enhance fulfilment services.
- Define luxury products and branding.
- Explore the evolution of luxury branding.
- Describe how luxury brands gain control of marketing channels.
- Identify supply chain strategies unique to luxury fashion.
- Define and describe global channels of distribution.
- Identify risks and disruptions to the security of global supply chains.
- Describe globalisation and its impact on retail fashion logistics.
- Examine the economic and supply chain implications of international logistics for fashion retailers.
- Define corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of retail fashion.
- Review strategic CSR initiatives.
- Describe the application of CSR activities in global fashion supply chains.
- Discuss CSR compromises in global clothing production.
- Explore case studies of CSR practices.
- Review key sustainability concepts and how they apply to supply chain management and logistics.
- Describe sustainability management strategies and systems.
- Discuss sustainability practices and impacts on the retail fashion sector.
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