A New Approach to Agility in The Apparel Industry

Abstract

Presently, worldwide apparel companies are facing a turbulent market caused by permanent globalization, sustained economic growth, consolidation of industries and intense organization competition. The main problem faced by the managers is actually the opportunities and threats resulted. The concept of “enterprise agility ” has become increasingly relevant.

The concept and thematic for the apparel industry are still new to the world. In this study, they are used to underline the way in which an agile enterprise without automated processes reacts in an environment of variable or extreme turbulence and how it derives solutions to stimulating innovation capacity in extreme turbulence.

This study presents the main problems occurred while determining the agility of the apparel companies which manufacture ready-made clothing. Referrals are made to the main subsystems which are considered very important for the agility of apparel enterprises. The Design subsystem is modeled. The methods of selecting agility parameters and their transposing in comparable units for quantification are also presented.

Citation

Curteza, A. and Florea, A. (2007), "A New Approach to Agility in The Apparel Industry", Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 93-101. https://doi.org/10.1108/RJTA-11-04-2007-B010