Industry Forum Services

Workshops

Our next workshop series will take place in Autumn 2012. email for further details.

Consulting

We currently have consulting teams working in South Africa and in the UK working on the implementation of Quick Response and Fast Fashion supply chains.

New insights into Best Practice

An interesting development has been the work we have carried out on the LAST 10 YARDS to make sure high demand product gets to and stays at maximum availability.

Conferences

Ken will be chairing the session on International retailing at the iAF Convention in Oporto Portugal 24th-28th September 2012.

Ken is key note speaker at the Kohl's conference in Singapore in October 2012

Industry Forum Services is a specialist management consultancy which concentrates on the fashion and relation consumer products industries and the application of lean thinking to improving performance in terms of improved products, faster supply chains at lower cost. It managed the Industry Forum, a joint government and industry initiative to improve supply chain performance. Today the organisation works with international supply chains to improve performance from product concept to delivery to the consumer - from concept to carrier bag.

The Industry Forum Services consulting practice is a leader in implementing best practice - principally to make the supply chain faster, better and cheaper through excellence of process using high performing teams. It also helps in Global Sourcing and Franchising.

Our clients are international retailers, brands and manufacturers worlwide.

Editorial:

Fast Fashion is a sustainable solution

Some say there is a correlation between bad working conditions and fast fashion. Fast Fashion is about delivering better products faster and cheaper by eliminating waste, duplication and inefficiencies. In order to do this, retailers using fast fashion need to have great supply chains. This can only be achieved as a sustainable business with good suppliers.

One is able to deliver fast supply chains by an alignment of cultures between brand/retailer and supplier and by the creation of a partnership which work together to eliminate the huge waste in the fashion supply chain. It is a fundamental principle of those operating Fast Fashion to operate a manner which is ethically compliant because it requires very close control of the supply chain to reduce throughput time. And one should not confuse cheap fashion with Fast Fashion - that is like comparing a Ford Focus with a Citroen 2CV.

We have been applying Lean concepts to the Fashion supply chain for 15 years this year - we are pleased to have worked with great manufacturers, brands and retailers around the world.

We believe that Lean Fashion is the future. Ken, 27 April 2011

Industry Forum Services

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London W2 5PA

Tel: 0845 034 3951

k.watson@industryforum.net