Supply Chain Management

The process from the initial raw materials to the ultimate consumption of the finished product linking across supplier-user companies.
The functions within and outside a company that enable the value chain to make products and provide services to the customer.

This is the supply chain to manufacture and supply men's cotton slack to the consumers

Supplying the highest level of service to your customers at the lowest possible cost
Can Problems Arise in the Supply Chain?
What are the Problem?

Jeff Joines from the College of Textiles at NCSU gave the group an overview of the hosiery game.
- The hosiery games engages participants in a simulation of the hosiery production pipeline and all of the dynamics of the pipeline.
- It is a competition among two or more teams to achieve the best pipeline performance.
- All of the fallacies of projection ordering are manifested in this game.
We will have a full session of the Hosiery Game on January 16th, 2002 at HTC from 10:30 until 3:00. Has your company signed up? WE NEED YOU TO BE A PART OF THIS IMPORTANT INITIATIVE! Click here for more information

Totally manage the hosiery business for the customer.
If the customer is dependant on you for styling, inventory control and you make money for them, they will not replace your company for price!
Bottom line: provide them a quality product in the quantity they want when they want it and you will have their business!