Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
The Changing Nature of Fashion Retailing: Implications for Logistics
- Fashion: its role in culture.
- The changing fashion retail environment.
- The rise of fast fashion.
- The luxury sectors.
- Fast fashion and CSR.
- The online revolution.
- The supply chain response.
- Global dispersion of fashion supply chains.
- Online logistical challenges.
Off shore sourcing and outsourcing in the international fashion supply chain
- Sourcing strategies.
- The nature of outsourcing.
- Types of outsourcing.
- Offshore sourcing and re-shoring?
- Supply chain relationships and responsiveness by.
- product category.
- Lean, agile or leagile?
Corporate social Responsibility (CSR) in International Fashion Supply Chains
- Defining CSR and its institutional context.
- Strategic CSR.
- Implementation of CSR initiatives in global fashion supply chains.
- Compromises to CSR in global apparel production.
- Case studies of CSR in practice.
- Rankings of socially responsible companies.
- Sri Lanka and CSR practices in garment manufacture.
International Logistics
- Definitions, impact and channels of distribution.
- Economic impact of logistics and SCM on channels of distribution.
- Fashion retail logistics and SCM.
- Globalization.
- Logistics and SCM in a global economy.
- Global risk, disruption and supply chain security.
- International logistics and SCM implications for fashion retailers.
In-store Consumer Service
- The national fashion retail supply chain.
- Retail logistical systems strategy and design.
- In-store consumer service.
- Some empirical studies.
- Suggestions to improve in-store consumer service.
Online Consumer Service
- The online fashion retail supply chain.
- The business case for Omni-channel retailing.
- Logistical design considerations for Omni-channel fulfilment.
- Suggestions to improve online fulfilment service.
Luxury Fashion and Supply Chain Management
- Definitions of luxury and luxury branding.
- The ‘new’ luxury.
- The evolution of the luxury brand.
- Gaining control of marketing channels.
- Supply chain management in luxury fashion.
Sustainable Fashion Retailing and Logistics
- Concepts of sustainability.
- Sustainability in logistics and SCM.
- Sustainability management and management systems.
- Sustainability in the fashion retail sector.
