Worked in the Production Planning and Control of a textile apparel production for years and have always tried to find innovative ways to save costs. There are many ways you can reduce costs and save time, following are few of them.
1 - Calculate material consumption correctly
Are your material consumptions calculated mathematically and are these consumptions verified? for example, is stitching thread planned too much or runs out. Effective consumption calculation is the key to control waste, why plan something extra and waste it?
2 - Performance Assessment of your departments
You must assess periodically how your departments are performing? how effective the planning is? how is merchandising, production and procurement carried out? if you cannot measure something, you can't manage it. Once you measure performance you can easily highlight the gaps and take action to eliminate these underperforming areas.
At Textile tactics we can help you measure the performance of your departments, of course I work for this company. We can also do a free assessment of your Production Planning Department, this offer is only available for a limited time, see website for further details.
3 - Effective training
There is always a need to enable your employees to update their skills, provide them the right training and understanding, keep them motivated and well informed.
4 - "Continuous improvement" approach in Production
Small but steady improvements, if correctly executed, bring huge savings. Reviewing the time management plans, quality assurance procedures, left over material and feedback from different departments can help you bring improvements in your production.
5 - Effective Supplier selection and relationship
If you have good relationship between suppliers, depending on what the supply and how much they supply, you can certainly pay less for the materials you buy and may also enjoy quicker deliveries.
The above mentioned points provide you a reasonable idea on how you may be able to reduce cost and save time but you need to carefully analyse the complete internal and external factors of your organisation to develop an effective solution, remember every organisation is different and needs different ways to achieve same objectives.
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