Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1457825538
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Operation of the Trade Agreements Program, The Year in Trade, 48th Report 1996
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1457825538
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1457825538
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Year in Trade
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign trade regulation
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign trade regulation
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A Stitch in Time
Author: Frederick H. Abernathy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190284358
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The apparel and textile industries have always been at the mercy of rapidly changing styles and fickle customers who want the latest designs while they are still in fashion. The result for these businesses, often forced to forecast sales and order from suppliers with scant information about volatile demand, is a history of stock shortages, high inventories, and costly markdowns. But, as the authors explain in A Stitch in Time, technological advances in the 1980s paved the way for a new concept in retailing--lean retailing. Pioneered by companies like WAL-MART, lean retailing has reshaped the way that products are ordered, virtually eliminating delays from distribution center to sales rack by drawing on sales data captured electronically at the checkout counter. Armed with up-to-the-minute data about colors, sizes, styles, and geographic sales, apparel and textile companies now must be able to respond rapidly to real-time orders efficiently based on new approaches to distributing merchandise, forecasting, planning, organizing production, and managing supplier relations. A Stitch in Time shows that even in the face of burgeoning product proliferation, companies that successfully adapt to the world of lean retailing can reduce inventory risk, reduce costs, and increase profitability while improving their responsiveness to the ever-changing tastes of customers. Based on the success of these practices in the apparel industry, lean retailing practices are propagating through a growing number of consumer product industries. A richly detailed and resonant account, A Stitch in Time brilliantly captures both the history and future of the retail-apparel-textile channel and offers bold insights on the changes and challenges facing retailers and manufacturers in all segments of our rapidly changing economy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190284358
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The apparel and textile industries have always been at the mercy of rapidly changing styles and fickle customers who want the latest designs while they are still in fashion. The result for these businesses, often forced to forecast sales and order from suppliers with scant information about volatile demand, is a history of stock shortages, high inventories, and costly markdowns. But, as the authors explain in A Stitch in Time, technological advances in the 1980s paved the way for a new concept in retailing--lean retailing. Pioneered by companies like WAL-MART, lean retailing has reshaped the way that products are ordered, virtually eliminating delays from distribution center to sales rack by drawing on sales data captured electronically at the checkout counter. Armed with up-to-the-minute data about colors, sizes, styles, and geographic sales, apparel and textile companies now must be able to respond rapidly to real-time orders efficiently based on new approaches to distributing merchandise, forecasting, planning, organizing production, and managing supplier relations. A Stitch in Time shows that even in the face of burgeoning product proliferation, companies that successfully adapt to the world of lean retailing can reduce inventory risk, reduce costs, and increase profitability while improving their responsiveness to the ever-changing tastes of customers. Based on the success of these practices in the apparel industry, lean retailing practices are propagating through a growing number of consumer product industries. A richly detailed and resonant account, A Stitch in Time brilliantly captures both the history and future of the retail-apparel-textile channel and offers bold insights on the changes and challenges facing retailers and manufacturers in all segments of our rapidly changing economy.
Completing the World Trading System:Proposals for a Millennium Round
Author: Peter Watson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Achieved deeper economic integration than the WTO regime. Incorporating this evidence--as well as other proposals from the academic & policy communities--Completing the World Trade Agenda crystallizes the most important trends in current international trade law. All three authors are active in the field of international trade law--Peter S. Watson (past Chairman, U.S. International Trade Commission) with the law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts; Joseph E. Flynn with the U.S. International Trade Commission; & Chad Conwell with the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Achieved deeper economic integration than the WTO regime. Incorporating this evidence--as well as other proposals from the academic & policy communities--Completing the World Trade Agenda crystallizes the most important trends in current international trade law. All three authors are active in the field of international trade law--Peter S. Watson (past Chairman, U.S. International Trade Commission) with the law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts; Joseph E. Flynn with the U.S. International Trade Commission; & Chad Conwell with the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP.
Renewing Fast-track Legislation
Author: I. M. Destler
Publisher: Peterson Institute
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher: Peterson Institute
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Journal of East Asian Affairs
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
American Foreign Policy and Treaty Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
International Economic Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
International Commerce
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Assessment of Labour Provisions in Trade and Investment Arrangements
Author: International Labor Office
Publisher: International Labor Office
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Nearly half of trade agreements concluded in the past five years included either a labor chapter or labor provision that makes reference to international labor standards and ILO instruments. The evidence so far suggests that labor provisions have been an important tool for raising awareness and improving laws and legislations with respect to workers' rights, increasing stakeholder involvement in negotiation and implementation phases, and developing domestic institutions to better monitor and enforce labor standards. But challenges remain, particularly with respect to sustainability of impacts, coherence, and cooperative efforts. This new report, part of the Studies on Growth with Equity series, gives a full examination of the scope and effectiveness of these labor provisions.
Publisher: International Labor Office
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Nearly half of trade agreements concluded in the past five years included either a labor chapter or labor provision that makes reference to international labor standards and ILO instruments. The evidence so far suggests that labor provisions have been an important tool for raising awareness and improving laws and legislations with respect to workers' rights, increasing stakeholder involvement in negotiation and implementation phases, and developing domestic institutions to better monitor and enforce labor standards. But challenges remain, particularly with respect to sustainability of impacts, coherence, and cooperative efforts. This new report, part of the Studies on Growth with Equity series, gives a full examination of the scope and effectiveness of these labor provisions.