Sourcing Strategies in Clothing Retail Firms: Product Complexity Versus Overseas Supply Chain

A paper by Simone Guercini & Andrea Runfola of Italy in which the duo tries to investigate the sourcing strategies of various retail firms like Marks & Spencer, H&M, Inditex, Gap, C&A.

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Requirements of Successful ERP Software For A Textile Dye-House Management

Abstract: ERP is a modern concept of any business solution that integrated all the process of a business’ functions including planning, production process, marketing, accounting and supply chain management. Selecting ERP software for a textile dye-house management is very important. As integrating all the functions of a dyeing industry are very complicated, success of ERP software depends upon the capability of simplifying interrelated functions and developing user-friendly interface of software manufacturer. This research study unveils the actual requirements of successful ERP software suitable for dye-house management and also analyzes the available software related to textile dye-house or textile manufacturing in the market.

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Problems With Fiber Reactive Dyeings Not Repeating - A Look at Five Typical Cases

An article on fiber dyeing by By Brent Smith, Keith Beck and Tod Madderra and published in American Dyestuff Reporter.

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Troubleshooting In Dyeing Part I & II

An article on troubleshooting methods in dyeing written by Dr. Brent Smith, Dept. of Textile Chemistry, NCSU. These are the first 2 parts in the 12 parts series.

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Trouble Shooting Continuous Thermosol Dyeing Of Polyester Fiber And Blends

An article on Thermosol Dyeing written by Larry Bright, Technical Sales Development Manager, Crompton & Knowles Colors, Inc. and published in American Dyestuff Reporter in August 1996.

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Denim Finishing with Enzymes

An article on denim finishing by Mee-Yong Yoon of Genercor International, USA which was published in Dyer International.

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Technical Bulletin from Cotton Incorporated

A number of technical bulletins, developed by Cotton Incorporated's Product Development and Implementation group. Select the articles you want to download and submit a valid email address. They will send the download links to your inbox within 72 hours.

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UN announced 2009 as the International Year of Natural Fiber

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2009 as the International Year of Natural Fiber (IYNF) at the request of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) with a slogan 'Discover Natural Fibres'.

I wrote an article on this topic in the June issue of Bangladesh Textile Today, the first ever and a comprehensive magazine for the textile and apparel industry.

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Requisites in Preparatory for Shuttleless Weaving

A newsletter article from Powerloom Developement & Export Promotion Council, India.

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Raw Material Quality Awareness and Inventory Control

A newsletter article from Powerloom Developement & Export Promotion Council, India.

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Advantages of Shuttleless Looms Over Shuttle Looms in Quantitative Terms

A newsletter article from Powerloom Developement & Export Promotion Council, India.

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Advances in Weaving Technology and Looms

A newsletter article from Powerloom Developement & Export Promotion Council, India.

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Some well known International Portal on Textile and Apparel Industry

Fibre2fashion - a B2B Textile Portal. Check out its 'articles' section. It has a very rich collection of articles on a wide range of topics, both trade and technical.

Just-Style - Market research and analysis organization for global textile and apparel industry. It provides a two week trial membership which is really handy. Very good source for news and research reports.

Textile Books, Articles & Reports

A collection of books, articles, reports on various topics of textiles.