Stages of Fulfilment Clothing
Do you have a business in the fashion sector? We all know doing business is not easy, because we have to fulfill the market demand. Did you know? Order fulfillment is necessary for fashion companies to meet the demands of customers who shop 24/7 online and in-store. Most of the most sophisticated fashion brands have their own in-house guidelines on how they process their order fulfillment. Although this may vary from brand to brand, there are some basic points that you should know and apply in your fashion business! Most include at least the following five steps or phases.
Steps For Order Fulfillment
1. Receive Inventory From Factory or Manufacturing Company
After a clothing, bag, or footwear brand receives their product from a manufacturing company, their team checks the condition of the goods, then labels, stores, and counts each of the different products. Defective products found here will end up in landfills, donated, or reused and may even be sold as defective items. (Many people also want to buy this defective product, you know! because the price is cheaper).
Clothing that the brand eventually can’t sell after being stocked or rotated out of season usually ends up in stores like Burlington, Burkes Outlet, and Tj Maxx.
2. Inventory Storage
While clothes are stored in company warehouses, fashion companies will use inventory control systems to keep track of what the most and least popular clothing items sold, how many were lost, and what needed to be reordered. This system shows companies’ stock levels on their store shelves and in warehouses. It also provides data about clothing such as sales levels, inventory levels, and online and in-store purchases. Inventory control system prevents the company from experiencing shortages and excess goods. It also shows them which clothes to discount, sees product trends, and determines when and how to reorder.
Fashion brands can do this by creating order alerts in the inventory control system, each garment in the inventory control system will have a number specifying when it should be reordered. You have to pay attention to this, lest because of a lack of stock you can lose your money income and do not let excess stock where your product is not sold.
3. Processing Orders
Companies always keep track of goods, but how do they know when a customer has ordered an outfit? Most use a processing management system to efficiently monitor or plan various activities. These systems are often integrated with brands’ online orders to allow customers to track the processing and delivery of their orders without the additional steps that brands need to take.
Three things are likely to affect the effectiveness of a company’s processing management system:
Ownership
Fashion brands will need someone who is committed to responsibility and ownership to improve the company’s management system. This individual will implement ideas for improvement, management, and responsibility.
Involvement
Engagement is a must in running a business. Engagement helps companies correct their shortcomings and execute new ideas. Communication allows messages to be communicated adequately and accurately. This allows companies to discover new areas of need and grow, making their business more holistic.
Measurement
This allows the business to find out what tasks or tasks are easiest and most difficult and eliminate what is not important. It also captures data like productivity, how it affects customers.
Without process management, companies will have a more challenging time tracking data and information about a product. It is the responsibility of every worker in the company to play an important role in monitoring this processing system and communicating data properly throughout the organization.
Not stop here, there are also 2 further points that you will find out in the next article! Read on to find out more!