Fast Fashion and Speed Sourcing Instructor Led Class

Best practices for Apparel Retailers

Target Audience

This class is designed for apparel retailers, and their partners, either where this is their core business or a key growing sector, e.g. supermarkets or  general retailers - in particular, those who are looking to improve their supply chains to get more benefit out of it.

• Buying, Merchandising and QA Directors
• Supply Chain / Sourcing Directors
• Business Change Directors
• IT Directors or those supporting supply chain initiatives
• Manufacturers partnering with retailers to implement fast fashion or speed sourcing
• Suppliers selling merchandise management, merchandise planning, range planning, PLM and CAD systems to retailers.

Class Overview

This class consists of a combination of instructor led discussion, practical exercises and lectures led by fast fashion and speed sourcing experts.  It will review the best practices associated with implementing fast fashion and speed sourcing successfully.  By the end of the class all delegates will have put together a personalised action plan for starting to implement fast fashion and / or speed sourcing in their company, or the next steps to making it work more effectively.

Class Objectives

• Develop a personalised action plan to implement or improve your implementation of fast fashion or speed sourcing processes in your company
• Differentiate between fast fashion and speed sourcing and explain related supply chain best practices
• Understand how you can use collaboration to shrink seasons
• Improve the accuracy of forecasting and other decisions by making them closer to the season
• Understand the best use of technologies (low and high tech) to support fast fashion and speed sourcing

Training Formats

• Fast Fashion and Speed Sourcing Instructor led classes
  Currently no US public classes scheduled, in-house classes available on request.
  Currently no UK public classes scheduled, in-house classes available on request.
• Content for corporate universities and intranets

CPD Certification Service has approved this class for Continuing Professional Development.