Generate Best Practices Across Continents

Industry: Textile and Apparels Service: Supply Chain Management

Mast Industries (Far East) Limited (Mast) is one of the world’s largest contract manufacturers, importers, and distributors of apparel and multi-brand speciality retailers.

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Mast consulted TQM for seeking improvement in the productivity of its sportswear purchasing operations in Southeast Asia.

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Project Scope

• Liaise with US Mast consultants to identify improvement areas

• Collect & analyze purchase information from Mast SE Asia

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Achievements

• Assisted in identifying 29 critical points of sport suits purchasing

• Distinguished value-adding activities

• Redesigned workflow to eliminate non-value adding activities & rectify bad working habits

• Increased 20% time efficiency of purchasing personnel in SE Asia

• Provided 32 practical solutions for further improvement practices

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