How Retailers Outsource Apparel?

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The contents of the report are:


The world of apparel retailing........................................................................................................2
Where does apparel go?...........................................................................................................2
Who buys it? .............................................................................................................................2
The importance of strategies to retailers...................................................................................5
What’s in a strategy?.................................................................................................................6
So what are the hot sourcing topics? ...........................................................................................9
The crucial background – rise of the discounters .....................................................................9
Exclusive brands.......................................................................................................................9
Range count and product life ..................................................................................................10
Outsourcing production.................................................................................................10
Outsourcing design .......................................................................................................11
Outsourcing procurement .............................................................................................11
Commitment doctrine and production timetables..........................................................11
Ethical issues ................................................................................................................11
Information technology..................................................................................................13
Geography ..............................................................................................................................15
Centralisation ..........................................................................................................................15
Key strategic sourcing topics......................................................................................................17
Inventory levels .......................................................................................................................17
Exclusive brands.....................................................................................................................18
Commitment and production cycle..........................................................................................19
Direct versus indirect sourcing ................................................................................................21
Limited Brands ..............................................................................................................22
Geographic strategy................................................................................................................26
The retailer attitude .......................................................................................................26
JC Penney published views on sourcing post 2004......................................................26
Do retailers mean what they are saying?......................................................................28
The fog of quota abolition .............................................................................................29
But surely some places are more vulnerable than others?...........................................31