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Mast Industries (Fast East) Limited

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 specialty retailers.
Mast consulted TQM for seeking improvement in the productivity of its sportswear purchasing operations in the Southeast Asia.
Project Scope
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Liaise with US Mast consultants to identify improvement areas
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Collect & analyze purchase information from Mast SE Asia
Achievements
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Assisted in identifying 29 critical points of sport suits purchasing
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Distinguished value-adding activities
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Redesigned workflow to eliminate non-value adding activities & rectify bad working habits
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Increased 20% time efficiency of purchasing personnel in SE Asia
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Provided 32 practical solutions for further improvement practices