Industry Forum Services

Summer Workshop Programme

May 2010 @ UKFT,

5 Portland Place, London W1B 1PW in conjunction with

27th May: Applying Lean to achieve Fast Fashion: Fast Supply Chains

For further details email: marketing@industryforum.net

News

Global Sourcing Skills 3rd March 2010

The second in the series continued to attract delegates from key retailers and brands including Boden, Margaret Howell, Mataln, Next, Oasis, Speedo, Timperley

Canadian Fast Fashion Leadership Workshop

November 23rd - 27th 2009 Montreal - Vancouver -Toronto

The latest in the Fast Fashion series was held coast to coast in conjunction with the Canadian Apparel Federation. 80 companies participated and the feedback on the new programme was excellent with a number of the companies expressing interest in both follow up workshop and in-house programmes.

London Global Sourcing skills workshop November 19th - highly rated by delegates

The new programme was well received by participants from Alison Hayes, Aurora Fashions, Barbour, Crystal Martin, Jenny Packham, Joules, Monsoon. As a result of the good feedback and interest, the programme will be repeated in the Spring of 2010. A wait list has already started!!

Hong Kong Fast Fashion workshop October 6th is

a resounding success!

Over 60 delegates from retailers, brands, manufacturers and sourcing companies attended a sell out workshop held in conjunction with Prime source Forum.

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.

NEW FAST FASHION MASTERCLASS AND SUPPLY CHAIN AUDIT PORGRAMME

A one week in-house programme to make a step change in performance. This includes an assessment of

performance in the critical areas of product development and pre-production approvals through to delivery to the customer.

Following successful project work for individual clients we have pulled together a short, sharp audit process to identify weak points in a company's supply chain.

This one week programme is targeted at companies whose supply chain performance requires to be aligned to meet the requirements of the highly competitive fashion business.

Call Ken Watson for further details .