A STITCH IN TIME-Retailing-Lessons from Apparel, Textile Industries-SIGNED hc dj

Description: Hi! You're looking at a SUPERB condition book which is RARE, hard to find and OUT OF PRINT and a collection of lessons about Retailing and Manufacturing from the Apparel and Textile Industries written by FREDERICK H. ABERNATHY, JOHN T. DUNLOP, JANICE H. HAMMOND and DAVID WEIL--the book is a collectible copy SIGNED BY ALL FOUR AUTHORS and a FIRST PRINTING and HARDCOVER with the ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET and is NOT a remainder copy and NOT price-clipped, with the original $35.00 price in the lower corner of the front inner flap. This book is in SUPERB and virtually FLAWLESS condition and the book has slight dings on the upper opening tips, a slight ding on the lower left edge of the front surface of the dustjacket and just slight shelfwear on the dustjacket but NO other significant imperfections! The book is AUTOGRAPHED and inscribed by ALL FOUR AUTHORS on the blank first page. The book is titled A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing--Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries and it was FREDERICK H. ABERNATHY, JOHN T. DUNLOP, JANICE H. HAMMOND and DAVID WEIL; it was published by Oxford University Press in 1999 and is a 1st PRINTING with a publication line reading 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.The apparel and textile industries have always been at the mercy of rapidly changing styles and fickle customers who want the latest designs while they are still in fashion. The result for these businesses, often forced to forecast sales and order from suppliers with scant information about volatile demand, is a history of stock shortages, high inventories, and costly markdowns. But, as the authors explain in A Stitch in Time, technological advances in the 1980s paved the way for a new concept in retailing--lean retailing. Pioneered by companies like WAL-MART, lean retailing has reshaped the way that products are ordered, virtually eliminating delays from distribution center to sales rack by drawing on sales data captured electronically at the checkout counter. Armed with up-to-the-minute data about colors, sizes, styles, and geographic sales, apparel and textile companies now must be able to respond rapidly to real-time orders efficiently based on new approaches to distributing merchandise, forecasting, planning, organizing production, and managing supplier relations. A Stitch in Time shows that even in the face of burgeoning product proliferation, companies that successfully adapt to the world of lean retailing can reduce inventory risk, reduce costs, and increase profitability while improving their responsiveness to the ever-changing tastes of customers. Based on the success of these practices in the apparel industry, lean retailing practices are propagating through a growing number of consumer product industries. A richly detailed and resonant account, A Stitch in Time brilliantly captures both the history and future of the retail-apparel-textile channel and offers bold insights on the changes and challenges facing retailers and manufacturers in all segments of our rapidly changing economy.A fantastic find, and a beautiful copy of this book!Thanks for looking, and good luck if you're bidding! Also be sure to check out all of my other great books currently listed on ebay auctions--I can combine shipping for multiple purchases!

Price: 4.79 USD

Location: Williamsport, Pennsylvania

End Time: 2024-09-09T17:40:58.000Z

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