The five status quo of the apparel industry force the deepening reform of the supply chain

Over the years, the clothing industry has been fragmented, disorderly, inefficient, and chaotic. In addition, China's economy has entered a new normal, economic growth has slowed, and domestic demand has continued to decrease. In this "winter and chaotic world", China's clothing manufacturing industry is in danger.

　　 However, blindly complaining about the sky and the other people are already pale, and the empty talkers feel a little weak. On this occasion, it is the boundless road to see the situation clearly and follow up reforms. We analyze and research the apparel industry from five aspects of "background, labor, core, spirit, and opportunity". The five current status of the apparel industry force the deepening reform of the supply chain to be imminent, and it is hard to make blood and blood.

　　Background: Industry 4.0 and Made in China

　　 Regardless of industry, Lang Xianping said: As long as Industry 4.0 spreads across the world, Chinese manufacturing will collapse and disintegrate across the board.

　　 At present, intelligent industrial equipment has become the basis for the upgrading and transformation of the global manufacturing industry, and developed countries coincidentally regard the upgrading of the manufacturing industry as the primary task of Industry 4.0. Take the German Fraxel Harley locomotive production plant as an example. In the pre-Industry 3.0 era, it took 21 days to produce a Harley locomotive because all its production processes were fixed and mechanized. But in the era of Industry 4.0, a customer placed an order at nine o’clock in the morning to order a personal customized motorcycle. These five modules were all worked on. According to the needs of the customer, he found the raw materials by himself, and found the factory to repackage and reassemble. The custom-made motorcycle can be delivered to the customer within six hours.

　　 In addition to greatly shortening the time, there is another advantage of intelligence, the cost is basically reduced by 40%.

　　 China’s manufacturing industry is already very difficult at present, and the cost has caught up with the United States. If the United States promotes Industry 4.0, the cost will drop by 40%. Where is our opportunity to compete! Manufacturing costs in Germany and the United Kingdom are currently about 10%-20% higher than that in China. As long as Industry 4.0 is promoted, the cost will be much lower than that in China. Where is our hope of competition!

As a major manufacturing country, China is facing a severe economic transformation. It is in the stage of moving from a manufacturing country to a manufacturing power. The country has proposed the "Made in China 2025" national strategy, which is similar to the US Industrial Internet and German Industry 4.0. Ideas can effectively help companies achieve upgrading and transformation.

　　 From the big to the small, based on the present, if the clothing industry does not reform, the death may not be fast, but it must be miserable.

　　Manpower: The employment problem is prominent, and the productivity needs to be liberated

　　 In 2016, my country’s college graduates reached 7.65 million, an increase of 160,000 from last year. Although the growth rate has slowed down in recent years, the number of college graduates this year is still a record high. On the other hand, China's economic growth has slowed down and the employment of enterprises and institutions has decreased accordingly, which has led to increasing employment pressure for college students. In addition, under the promotion of Industry 4.0, ordinary repetitive manufacturing is increasingly biased towards intelligent production, and the prospect of employment pressure for workers is also embarrassing.

　　Look at the clothing industry. In the traditional clothing supply chain, workers belong to factories, and their income is based on piece count. In order to successfully complete the next order, there is usually a set aside time for debugging the machine and adjusting the process. Of course, during this idle period, workers will also have a lot of idle time, which causes a waste of labor. This kind of waste is extremely deadly in the clothing manufacturing industry facing the overall deepening of reforms.

　　 Therefore, releasing productivity and promoting workers' self-upgrading is a potential general direction of personnel reform.

　　Core: cliché, business risk caused by inventory

　　In all manufacturing industries, there are probably few industries that have a more extensive and profound impact on inventory backlogs than the clothing industry. This is closely related to the rapid changes in fashion trends and constant changes in consumer demand.

　　In the traditional supply chain, orders must be placed 3-6 months in advance, and the order is at least 1,000 pieces, resulting in a large backlog of clothing retailers, which leads to insufficient cash flow turnover. What's more frightening is that because the market forecast has exceeded half a year, it is difficult for the clothing brand to grasp the current fashion trend. After the clothing that has been hoarded for half a year is found to be out of date, it has to be sold at a discount and again compressed profits.

　　 The inventory problem is the core problem that has always plagued the clothing industry. Who can solve this problem is the leader of the clothing supply chain.

　　Spirit: Made in China, the blank of ingenuity

　　 Japan has tens of thousands of century-old shops and even thousand-year-old shops. The secret for many Japanese companies to continue for a century or even a thousand years is to persevere and focus on their own business and not be influenced by the profit at hand. Italian craftsmen and workshops are well-known, and many big luxury brands come from small Italian craftsmen. Italian craftsmen, everyone pursues excellence. In German-speaking countries such as Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, in addition to many well-known brands of automobiles, watches, and home appliances, there are also a large number of successful small and medium-sized enterprises. They focus on production and manufacturing, focus on innovative research and development, and have a large number of highly skilled labor. These companies have achieved global leadership in certain segments of the industry, but they are not known to outsiders, and they can be called "invisible leaders."

　　In Japan, Italy, Germany and other countries, the craftsmanship spirit has been well inherited.

　　 Looking at the country, Li Ning’s quietly declining, Baleno’s crashing down, the ingenuity is absent, all the glitz is gone, and the soul of "Made in China" is still a Chinese dream of the Chinese people.

　　 When there is a gap, there is a market, and when there is feelings, it becomes a business. The garment industry is made in China, and it should be made with care.

　　 Opportunity: Bad trading environment, bad money drives out good money

　　 The domestic clothing market is composed of more than 1 million information islands (nearly 100,000 fabric stalls and about 1 million small factories/workshops scattered across the country) with information closed to each other. The scale of this low-end clothing supply chain market is as high as about 1 trillion, but such a large market is always a deformed ecology of "bad money drives out good money"-as long as the price is low and can deceive people, you can get orders. Low quality and low price win.

　　 Such a deformed market is really terrifying, and it is terrifying to think carefully. But does this brew another opportunity?

　　Under the opportunity, the flexible apparel supply chain is the trend

　　 In the long-term practice, in view of the above-mentioned industry status, the pioneers of the apparel supply chain continue to explore, and open a new idea for the upgrading and reform of the supply chain: to make every effort to create a flexible apparel supply chain. The specific operations are: grasp the market demand more accurately by using intelligent production; through socialized production, deep-level optimization of production capacity, while the flexible supply chain solves the problem of difficulty in improving the technical level of clothing workers and the employment of workers; using "Internet + "The model captures popular trends and improves transaction efficiency.

　　In the field of Industry 4.0 smart manufacturing, domestic pioneers in the apparel industry have long been eager to try, but in the case of unknown prospects, the operation is a little daunting. At this time, Sinbad’s supply chain took the lead in investing funds and cooperating with smart device manufacturers to conduct the research and development of smart devices for the Internet of Things, from flat cutting machines to automatic spreading machines, computer cutting machines, fourth-generation sewing machines, automatic template machines, etc. , To realize digital manufacturing, intelligent production, and establish networked production facilities. Sinbad’s production capacity is defined by the number of equipment, using intelligent production equipment, through Sinbad’s Internet system to automatically receive orders and dispatch orders, and nearby idle workers can decide how much money they earn according to their energy. In this way, a large amount of idle production capacity is integrated and efficiency is improved. Each productivity center divides modules according to production links, and standardizes each module. Through system rating, priority is given to excellent workers. Workers' income increases. The more active they work, the higher the score; the more orders, the more money . Use healthy competition rules to stimulate workers' enthusiasm. Through this model, the productivity of workers will be completely liberated, so as to increase the income level of workers and ensure the stability of employment in the textile and garment industry.

　　 On the other hand, many factory entrepreneurs have always suffered from the difficulty of improving the quality and professional skills of workers. In the traditional clothing supply chain environment, the working environment of workers is messy and poor, machinery and equipment are outdated, working hours are not free, and wages are not guaranteed. In many cases, workers have to go to several factories to work a full day, and workers cannot concentrate on improving their skills. Now, through the Internet platform to realize the free control of production capacity, region, time, the choice of opportunities, promote the flow of talents, increase the income of workers, begin to concentrate on professional skills and improve quality, ordinary workers become skilled workers, and skilled workers gradually become the Internet age Craftsmen in the true sense.

　　 In the Internet + era, the needs of C-end users have changed, prompting the emergence of personalized and customized production platforms. The flexible supply chain is based on the emergence of such demand. It is flexible enough, and its production capacity can quickly respond to market demand, helping apparel brands to place orders from 1 year to 6 months in advance to 10 days in advance, with multiple styles and small batches The minimum order is 100 pieces, and the order is reissued in 3 days in large quantities. Both large and small orders can ensure uniform and controllable quality and timely delivery. For customers, the advantage is that they can be closer to the market to make production plans instead of making predictions so long in advance, thereby reducing inventory, which makes the supply chain's flexible and quick response to the market better. Help brands to seize popular trends to increase sales opportunities and eliminate the risk of inventory backlog.

Under the new normal of China’s economy, the domestic economy as a whole is down. Under this national deflation, entrepreneurs in the apparel manufacturing industry should strengthen their original intentions and provide customers with low-cost, reliable and worry-free "clothing flexible supply chain services" , Provide consumers with reliable quality clothing products, and seek benefits and development for workers and craftsmen. In the future, more conscientious companies that truly do practical things are needed to make contributions to the industry and practitioners. (Source: Global Textile Network) Over the years, the clothing industry has been fragmented, disorderly, inefficient, and chaotic. In addition, China’s economy has entered a new normal, economic growth has slowed, and domestic demand has continued to decrease. In this "winter and chaotic world," Chinese clothing The manufacturing industry is in danger.

　　 However, blindly complaining about the sky and the other people are already pale, and the empty talkers feel a little weak. On this occasion, it is the boundless road to see the situation clearly and follow up reforms. We analyze and research the apparel industry from five aspects of "background, labor, core, spirit, and opportunity". The five current status of the apparel industry force the deepening reform of the supply chain to be imminent, and it is hard to make blood and blood.

　　Background: Industry 4.0 and Made in China

　　 Regardless of industry, Lang Xianping said: As long as Industry 4.0 spreads globally, Chinese manufacturing will collapse and disintegrate across the board.

　　 At present, intelligent industrial equipment has become the basis for the upgrading and transformation of the global manufacturing industry, and developed countries coincidentally regard the upgrading of the manufacturing industry as the primary task of Industry 4.0. Take the German Fraxel Harley locomotive production plant as an example. In the pre-Industry 3.0 era, it took 21 days to produce a Harley locomotive because all its production processes were fixed and mechanized. But in the era of Industry 4.0, a customer placed an order at nine o’clock in the morning to order a personal customized motorcycle. These five modules were all worked on. According to the needs of the customer, he found the raw materials by himself, and found the factory to repackage and reassemble. The custom-made motorcycle can be delivered to the customer within six hours.

　　 In addition to greatly shortening the time, there is another advantage of intelligence, the cost is basically reduced by 40%.

　　 China’s manufacturing industry is already very difficult at present, and the cost has caught up with the United States. If the United States promotes Industry 4.0, the cost will drop by 40%. Where is our opportunity to compete! Manufacturing costs in Germany and the United Kingdom are currently about 10%-20% higher than that in China. As long as Industry 4.0 is promoted, the cost will be much lower than that in China. Where is our hope of competition!

As a major manufacturing country, China is facing severe economic transformation. It is in the stage of moving from a major manufacturing country to a strong manufacturing country. The country has proposed the "Made in China 2025" national strategy, which is similar to the American Industrial Internet and German Industry 4.0. Ideas can effectively help companies achieve upgrading and transformation.

　　 From the big to the small, based on the present, if the clothing industry does not reform, the death may not be fast, but it must be miserable.

　　Manpower: The employment problem is highlighted, and productivity should be liberated

　　 In 2016, my country’s college graduates reached 7.65 million, an increase of 160,000 from last year. Although the growth rate has slowed down in recent years, the number of college graduates this year is still a record high. On the other hand, China's economic growth has slowed down and the employment of enterprises and institutions has decreased accordingly, which has led to increasing employment pressure for college students. In addition, under the promotion of Industry 4.0, ordinary repetitive manufacturing is increasingly biased towards intelligent production, and the prospect of employment pressure for workers is also embarrassing.

　　Look at the clothing industry. In the traditional clothing supply chain, workers belong to factories, and their income is based on piece count. In order to successfully complete the next order, there is usually a set aside time for debugging the machine and adjusting the process. Of course, during this idle period, workers will also have a lot of idle time, which causes a waste of labor. This kind of waste is extremely deadly in the clothing manufacturing industry facing the overall deepening of reforms.

　　 Therefore, releasing productivity and promoting workers' self-upgrading is a potential general direction of personnel reform.

　　Core: cliché, business risk caused by inventory

　　In all manufacturing industries, there are probably few industries that have a more extensive and profound impact on inventory backlogs than the clothing industry. This is closely related to the rapid changes in fashion trends and constant changes in consumer demand.

　　In the traditional supply chain, orders must be placed 3-6 months in advance, and the order is at least 1,000 pieces, resulting in a large backlog of clothing retailers, which leads to insufficient cash flow turnover. What's more frightening is that because the market forecast has exceeded half a year, it is difficult for the clothing brand to grasp the current fashion trend. After the clothing that has been hoarded for half a year is found to be out of date, it has to be sold at a discount and again compressed profits.

　　 The inventory problem is the core problem that has always plagued the clothing industry. Who can solve this problem is the leader of the clothing supply chain.

　　Spirit: Made in China, the blank of ingenuity

　　 Japan has tens of thousands of century-old shops and even thousand-year-old shops. The secret for many Japanese companies to continue for a century or even a thousand years is to persevere and focus on their own business and not be influenced by the profit at hand. Italian craftsmen and workshops are well-known, and many big luxury brands come from small Italian craftsmen. Italian craftsmen, everyone pursues excellence. In German-speaking countries such as Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, in addition to many well-known brands of automobiles, watches, and home appliances, there are also a large number of successful small and medium-sized enterprises. They focus on production and manufacturing, focus on innovative research and development, and have a large number of highly skilled labor. These companies have achieved global leadership in certain segments of the industry, but they are not known to outsiders, and they can be called "invisible leaders."

　　In Japan, Italy, Germany and other countries, the craftsmanship spirit has been well inherited.

　　 Looking at the country, Li Ning’s quietly declining, Baleno’s crashing down, the ingenuity is absent, all the glitz is gone, and the soul of "Made in China" is still a Chinese dream of the Chinese people.

　　 When there is a gap, there is a market, and when there is feelings, it becomes a business