Study on zero-inventory of raw material of apparel enterprises

Having analyzed the supply chain features inherent in the apparel industry,a frame work for the apparel industry supply chain is proposed.In apparel marketing,seasonal demand and on-time delivery must be taken into consideration.In order to make a good use of the feedback information from consumers and allot to distributors the goods in demand on the market,an apparel enterprise should enter into a partnership with the related units in the supply chain system. Therefore,a new idea of zero-inventory management of raw material based on supply chain partnership is presented.The numeric simulation shows that the new mode of zero-inventory management of raw material makes an apparel enterprise possible to cut down the inventory cost and perform quick response to the market.