INTRODUCTION TO SUPPLY OPTIONS
Want to improve profits and customer service levels while lowering inventory risk? Download our short introduction to Flexible Supply Options.
NEW PAPERS AVAILABLE AS DOWNLOADS
• "The Future of the Apparel and Textile Industries: Prospects and Choices for Public and Private Actors" by Fred Abernathy, Anthony Volpe, and David Weil [Publications page]
• "The Apparel and Textile Industries after 2005: Prospects and Choices" by Frederick Abernathy, Anthony Volpe, and David Weil. [Publications page]
RESEARCH AVAILABLE!
Check out our Publications page where papers and reprints can be downloaded or requested for free.
Find out more about A Stitch in Time, a winner of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Prize Award for 1999-2000.
Receive updates about the interesting work being undertaken at HCTAR.
The Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research is focused on the the competitive dynamics of the retail-apparel-textile channel -- in particular, how technological innovations are transforming the way retailers plan and order merchandise, and in turn, the way manufacturers forecast demand, plan production, and manufacture and distribute apparel products.
A based on this research, A Stitch in Time, Lean Retailing & the Transformation of Manufacturing -- Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries incorporates predictive and prescriptive insights about information-integrated channels in a variety of consumer product industries.
Researchers at the Center have created models for evaluating the impact of lead times on channel profitability, critical to the development of new planning and sourcing strategies. In addition, they have developed advanced computing techniques for automatic marker making and undertaken research on the use of robotics in apparel manufacturing.
Funded since 1990 by the Alfred P. Sloan foundation, the Center draws its members from the faculties of Arts and Sciences and the Business School of Harvard University, Boston University, and the University of Miami.
Copyright 2000-2007. Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research
INTRODUCTION TO SUPPLY OPTIONS
Want to improve profits and customer service levels while lowering inventory risk? Download our short introduction to Flexible Supply Options.
NEW PAPERS AVAILABLE AS DOWNLOADS
• "The Future of the Apparel and Textile Industries: Prospects and Choices for Public and Private Actors" by Fred Abernathy, Anthony Volpe, and David Weil [Publications page]
• "The Apparel and Textile Industries after 2005: Prospects and Choices" by Frederick Abernathy, Anthony Volpe, and David Weil. [Publications page]
RESEARCH AVAILABLE!
Check out our Publications page where papers and reprints can be downloaded or requested for free.
Find out more about A Stitch in Time, a winner of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Prize Award for 1999-2000.
Receive updates about the interesting work being undertaken at HCTAR.
The Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research is focused on the the competitive dynamics of the retail-apparel-textile channel -- in particular, how technological innovations are transforming the way retailers plan and order merchandise, and in turn, the way manufacturers forecast demand, plan production, and manufacture and distribute apparel products.
A based on this research, A Stitch in Time, Lean Retailing & the Transformation of Manufacturing -- Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries incorporates predictive and prescriptive insights about information-integrated channels in a variety of consumer product industries.
Researchers at the Center have created models for evaluating the impact of lead times on channel profitability, critical to the development of new planning and sourcing strategies. In addition, they have developed advanced computing techniques for automatic marker making and undertaken research on the use of robotics in apparel manufacturing.
Funded since 1990 by the Alfred P. Sloan foundation, the Center draws its members from the faculties of Arts and Sciences and the Business School of Harvard University, Boston University, and the University of Miami.
A based on this research, A Stitch in Time, Lean Retailing & the Transformation of Manufacturing -- Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries incorporates predictive and prescriptive insights about information-integrated channels in a variety of consumer product industries.
Researchers at the Center have created models for evaluating the impact of lead times on channel profitability, critical to the development of new planning and sourcing strategies. In addition, they have developed advanced computing techniques for automatic marker making and undertaken research on the use of robotics in apparel manufacturing.
Funded since 1990 by the Alfred P. Sloan foundation, the Center draws its members from the faculties of Arts and Sciences and the Business School of Harvard University, Boston University, and the University of Miami.