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Is ‘Made in U.S.A.’ back in vogue?
By shifting manufacturing back home, Tsabag said he’s able to deliver his order to retailers in about 45 days versus the 120 to 150 days it would take to source the same items from China.
More evidence of the benefits of “lean manufacturing,” though it seems they are getting only a few benefits (reduction of waste, faster resupply of “hot items”) and they may well not know about lean thinking. By studying and applying lean ideas they should be able to reduce the 45 day turn-around time. Perhaps they should read the Fashion Incubator blog.
One more interesting bit of fashion news: Amazon.com bought a internet clothing retailer based in Madison, Wisconsin: shopbop.com. I don’t get it. We will have to see if time shows what Bezos sees that I don’t.
Update: Fashion Incubator and Evolving Exellence posts on this topic
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March 21st, 2007 at 6:47 pm
“The company is doing fine, but management says the U.S. factory has to improve constantly to justify the higher salaries its workers make, compared with foreign rivals…”
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
I’m glad that this company is realizing the benefits of manufacturing in the USA. The more Americans buy their own goods, the more American dollars stay in our economy instead of being shipped abroad.