Garment Production Returns To Europe, Many Factors Promote Clothing Industry Pformation

Recently, McKinsey consultancy released a study published by the company that clothing production is rapidly returning to Europe. The industry believes that this trend is mainly due to regional cost comparison, logistics and pportation and automation technology.

Before that, China and Southeast Asia became the main garment production base undoubtedly because of its cheap labor force in the region.

It is also because of this change that clothing production is flowing to Europe.

According to the relevant data, at present, labor costs plus pportation and import and export costs, Turkey's jeans production costs are 3% lower than that in China, and the cost of production in Mexico is 12% lower than that in China.

The McKinsey report also shows that "for some low cost garments, it is more important to produce near Europe or North America."

A garment manufacturer accepts

In fact, a few years ago, the company began to reduce its investment in garment production base in Southeast Asia. "Although the labor cost in Southeast Asia is relatively low, the quality of workers is also low."

At the same time, he admitted that workers in Southeast Asia had poor discipline and rigid work.

Moreover, for the clothing industry, the induction and speed of fashion change determine the development of this enterprise. This also requires enterprises to control the logistics and pportation time of the garment production link more accurately, and shorter pportation time to make fashion companies adjust the trend faster.

It usually takes 30 days to reach the western market for clothing in Southeast Asia, while Turkey takes only 3-6 days to Germany.

Achim Berg, a senior partner at McKinsey, said that in a era dominated by social media such as Instagram, faster reaction speed is a necessary condition for fashion companies to remain competitive.

Consumers have been in the past for a year and a half for a new garment and so on. Flexible organizational structure is an essential factor for fashion companies to support the balance between supply and demand of goods.

With the improvement of technology,

Enterprise's dependence on automation technology is strengthened.

At present, some automation technologies have been adopted in garment production, such as laser cutting.

In the next ten years, automation can save 40%-70% production time and further reduce production costs.

This means that the time to produce a basic jeans will be reduced from 36 minutes to 11 minutes.

The garment manufacturers said that the introduction of automation technology at present has become a common phenomenon.

Manufacturers are ushering in a comprehensive digital pformation, which is also a pformation and upgrading of garment enterprises in the traditional manufacturing industry.

Another advantage of automated production is that precision mapping and cutting can be reduced.

Waste to improve the sustainability of production processes.

Most experts believe that by 2025, sustainability will become an important decision-making factor for consumers to buy clothes.

According to the industry, automatic production process uses less water, energy and chemicals, and near procurement also reduces pportation distance and is more environmentally friendly.

In addition, closer procurement makes it possible for more on-demand production to reduce the risk of backlog.

Many garment industry experts said that clothing enterprises are still extending the development route for more than ten years or even decades. Under the background of consumption upgrading and technological innovation, enterprises will face survival crisis if they do not keep pace with changes.

In the next ten years or more, clothing enterprises should consider multiple factors such as cost, pportation and new technology application, so as to promote the sustainable development of enterprises.