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Tsanming Choi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Sustainable product development processes in Fashion: Supply Chains structures and classifications
    International Journal of Production Economics, 2021
    Co-Authors: Yi-ning Fung, Tsanming Choi, Hau-ling Chan, Rong Liu
    Abstract:

    Abstract Product development is a critical part of all business operations. In Fashion apparel, product development is a complicated process. In recent years, with the advance of technologies and the growing public awareness of environmental protection, product development processes (PDPs) in Supply Chains, including Fashion Supply Chains, need to be environmentally sustainable. In this paper, we first identify the commonly seen Supply Chain structures in the Fashion industry. Then, by examining the product development process in practice and in the literature, we identify the essential steps in Fashion PDPs, which include planning, product design, manufacturing, and product launching. We further classify the product development process into three types, namely the traditional product development process (TPDP), new product development process (NPDP), and sustainable product development process (SPDP). Furthermore, we analyze the key factors of achieving sustainable Fashion based on the triple bottom line (TBL) framework regarding the PDP. We establish a sustainable product development process (SPDP) matrix, which can guide the Fashion Supply Chain members to operate in a sustainable manner during the SPDP. Finally, we reveal open research issues and propose a future research agenda.

  • green product development under competition a study of the Fashion apparel industry
    European Journal of Operational Research, 2020
    Co-Authors: Tsanming Choi, Bin Shen
    Abstract:

    Abstract Motivated by the observed industrial issues, we analytically develop a Fashion Supply Chain consisting of one manufacturer and two competing retailers and investigate how retail competition and consumer returns affect green product development in Fashion apparel. In the basic model, that is, the pure “product greenness level” game, we find that the optimal greenness level of the Fashion product decreases along with the level of market competition. This finding implies that a more competitive market leads to a lower optimal greenness level. We also identify that when the consumer return rate increases, the optimal product greenness level is substantially reduced. In the extended model with joint decisions on greenness and pricing, we find that the optimal product greenness level for the whole channel is always higher in the scenario when both retailers charge a higher retail price than in the case with a lower retail price. As such, the underdevelopment of green Fashion products is a result of Fashion industry features, such as an extremely competitive environment for green product development, relatively low retail prices for Fashion products, and high consumer return rates. Therefore, Fashion companies should join a co-opetition game for the green product market and simultaneously enhance their efficiency in managing consumer returns. To support our analytical findings, we conduct extensive industrial interviews with various representative companies. Based on this multi-methodological approach (MMA), this paper generates practice-relevant managerial insights that not only contribute to the literature, but also act as valuable references for industrialists.

  • sustainable Fashion Supply Chain management a system of systems analysis
    IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2019
    Co-Authors: Tsanming Choi, Yajun Cai, Bin Shen
    Abstract:

    The system of systems (SoS) theory is an important topic in modern systems engineering management. Previous studies focus mainly on using it to explore large-scale physical systems. Relatively little is known about its applications in business operations. In this paper, through the SoS theory, we explore sustainable Fashion Supply Chain management via a multimethodological approach. To be specific, we first investigate and indicate that the Fashion Supply Chain is a well-qualified SoS. We then propose the critical SoS principles for building a sustainable Fashion Supply Chain. We analytically reveal and investigate the values of these principles by deriving the “expected value of SoS principles” (EVSOS). In particular, we highlight how the number of market observations as well as the fabric and product leftovers related loss and gain affect EVSOS. We further build a two-stage framework as well as an action matrix for achieving sustainable Fashion Supply Chain management. Finally, a public-data based real case study on Sweden giant Fashion enterprise H&M is conducted to illustrate real world applications of the proposed framework.

  • data quality challenges for sustainable Fashion Supply Chain operations in emerging markets roles of blockChain government sponsors and environment taxes
    Transportation Research Part E-logistics and Transportation Review, 2019
    Co-Authors: Tsanming Choi, Suyuan Luo
    Abstract:

    Abstract In emerging markets, there are data quality problems. In this paper, we establish theoretical models to explore how data quality problems affect sustainable Fashion Supply Chain operations. We start with the decentralized Supply Chain and find that poor data quality lowers Supply Chain profit and social welfare. We consider the implementation of blockChain to help and identify the situation in which blockChain helps enhance social welfare but brings harm to Supply Chain profitability. We propose a government sponsor scheme as well as an environment taxation waiving scheme to help. We further extend the study to the centralized Supply Chain setting.

  • impacts of retailer s risk averse behaviors on quick response Fashion Supply Chain systems
    Annals of Operations Research, 2018
    Co-Authors: Tsanming Choi
    Abstract:

    Supply Chain systems for Fashion apparel products face a high level of risk as the market demand is very volatile and unpredictable. In order to cope with demand volatility, the quick response system which aims to shorten replenishment lead time has been well-established. With a shortened lead time, retailers can postpone the ordering decision and improve their demand forecast by gathering updated market information. However, there is a limit for quick response in which the market demand forecast is never fully accurate and uncertainty can never be fully eliminated. Thus, to keep the level of risk under control, retailers tend to possess a risk-averse behaviour in making their respective inventory decisions. In this paper, we explore the make-to-order quick response Fashion Supply Chain with a risk averse retailer. We employ the mean-risk framework to incorporate the retailer’s risk averse behavior into the optimization model. With the focal point on uncovering the impacts brought by the retailer’s risk averse behavior to the quick response Fashion Supply Chain system, we analytically derive important theoretical insights regarding the retailer’s optimal decisions, the implied inventory service levels, the values of quick response, and the contractual arrangements to attain Pareto improvement when the retailer is risk averse.

Bin Shen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • green product development under competition a study of the Fashion apparel industry
    European Journal of Operational Research, 2020
    Co-Authors: Tsanming Choi, Bin Shen
    Abstract:

    Abstract Motivated by the observed industrial issues, we analytically develop a Fashion Supply Chain consisting of one manufacturer and two competing retailers and investigate how retail competition and consumer returns affect green product development in Fashion apparel. In the basic model, that is, the pure “product greenness level” game, we find that the optimal greenness level of the Fashion product decreases along with the level of market competition. This finding implies that a more competitive market leads to a lower optimal greenness level. We also identify that when the consumer return rate increases, the optimal product greenness level is substantially reduced. In the extended model with joint decisions on greenness and pricing, we find that the optimal product greenness level for the whole channel is always higher in the scenario when both retailers charge a higher retail price than in the case with a lower retail price. As such, the underdevelopment of green Fashion products is a result of Fashion industry features, such as an extremely competitive environment for green product development, relatively low retail prices for Fashion products, and high consumer return rates. Therefore, Fashion companies should join a co-opetition game for the green product market and simultaneously enhance their efficiency in managing consumer returns. To support our analytical findings, we conduct extensive industrial interviews with various representative companies. Based on this multi-methodological approach (MMA), this paper generates practice-relevant managerial insights that not only contribute to the literature, but also act as valuable references for industrialists.

  • sustainable Fashion Supply Chain management a system of systems analysis
    IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2019
    Co-Authors: Tsanming Choi, Yajun Cai, Bin Shen
    Abstract:

    The system of systems (SoS) theory is an important topic in modern systems engineering management. Previous studies focus mainly on using it to explore large-scale physical systems. Relatively little is known about its applications in business operations. In this paper, through the SoS theory, we explore sustainable Fashion Supply Chain management via a multimethodological approach. To be specific, we first investigate and indicate that the Fashion Supply Chain is a well-qualified SoS. We then propose the critical SoS principles for building a sustainable Fashion Supply Chain. We analytically reveal and investigate the values of these principles by deriving the “expected value of SoS principles” (EVSOS). In particular, we highlight how the number of market observations as well as the fabric and product leftovers related loss and gain affect EVSOS. We further build a two-stage framework as well as an action matrix for achieving sustainable Fashion Supply Chain management. Finally, a public-data based real case study on Sweden giant Fashion enterprise H&M is conducted to illustrate real world applications of the proposed framework.

  • circular Fashion Supply Chain management exploring impediments and prescribing future research agenda
    Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, 2019
    Co-Authors: Rudrajeet Pal, Bin Shen, Erik Sandberg
    Abstract:

    Circular Fashion Supply Chain management: exploring impediments and prescribing future research agenda

  • rfid embedded smart washing machine systems in the big data era value creation in Fashion Supply Chain
    2019
    Co-Authors: Bin Shen, Xuemei Ding, Yanyan Wang, Shuyun Ren
    Abstract:

    Both RFID and intelligent decision support system have been widely integrated into manufacturing and retailing. In this paper, the RFID-embedded smart washing machine (RFID+SWM) is proposed and its intelligent decision support system prototype is described. It is discussed that how this application and system create values to the Fashion industry through data analysis. The data from RFID+SWM is recorded, stored, and analyzed for decision making. For example, the Fashion color trend is analyzed by using consumer washing data from the RFID+SWM. The proposed intelligent decision support system is identified to monitor customers’ apparel wearing behavior at the usage stage and to provide various values to change product development, production planning, and retailing management in the Fashion business. The new era’s Fashion business becomes smarter with intelligence, interconnection, and visibility. The proposed technology and developed prototype system help optimize business process in the Fashion Supply Chain.

  • selling luxury Fashion online with social influences considerations demand changes and Supply Chain coordination
    International Journal of Production Economics, 2017
    Co-Authors: Bin Shen, Rongrong Qian, Tsanming Choi
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    Abstract In the luxury Fashion retailing industry, consumers can be categorized into the groups of Fashion leader and Fashion follower. These two groups influence one another and create social influences in the market. In this paper, we construct an analytical model to examine the effects of demand changes on a luxury Fashion Supply Chain with social influences. We consider the case when the Supply Chain consisting of one supplier and one online retailer, provides differentiated services to different groups of consumers. We identify the optimal prices and differentiated online services. To maximize the channel profit, we find that adjusting the retail price alone is enough when a demand change is small, whereas adjusting both the retail price and online retail services are necessary when a demand change is sufficiently big. Furthermore, we investigate the impacts of social influences on online retail services and find that when the impacts of social influences are increasing, the Supply Chain is more likely to provide better services to the Fashion leader group than the Fashion follower group. Last but not least, we derive the respective conditions to achieve channel coordination by using three commonly seen policies in the Fashion industry, namely the all-unit quantity discount policy, the capacitated linear pricing policy, and the profit sharing policy. A comparison among these policies is made and managerial insights are generated.

Anna Nagurney - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Fashion Supply Chain Network Competition with Ecolabeling
    Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Management, 2015
    Co-Authors: Anna Nagurney, Jonas Flodén
    Abstract:

    In this chapter we develop a competitive Supply Chain network model for Fashion that incorporates ecolabeling. We capture the individual profit-maximizing behavior of the Fashion firms which incur ecolabeling costs with information associated with the carbon footprints of their Supply Chains revealed to the consumers. Consumers, in turn, reflect their preferences for the branded products of the Fashion firms through their demand price functions, which include the carbon emission information. We construct the underlying network structure of the Fashion Supply Chains and provide alternative variational inequality formulations of the governing Nash equilibrium conditions. The model, as a special case, also captures carbon taxes. We discuss qualitative properties of the equilibrium product flow pattern and also propose an algorithm, which has elegant features for computational purposes. We provide both an illustrative example as well as a variant and then discuss a case study with several larger numerical examples.

  • sustainable Fashion Supply Chain management under oligopolistic competition and brand differentiation
    International Journal of Production Economics, 2012
    Co-Authors: Anna Nagurney
    Abstract:

    Abstract In this paper, we developed a new model of oligopolistic competition for Fashion Supply Chains in the case of differentiated products with the inclusion of environmental concerns. The model assumes that each Fashion firm's product is distinct by brand and the firms compete until an equilibrium is achieved. Each Fashion firm seeks to maximize its profits as well as to minimize its emissions throughout its Supply Chain with the latter criterion being weighted in an individual manner by each firm. The competitive Supply Chain model is network-based and variational inequality theory is utilized for the formulation of the governing Nash equilibrium as well as for the solution of the case study examples. The numerical examples illustrate both the generality of the modeling framework as well as how the model and computational scheme can be used in practice to explore the effects of changes in the demand functions; in the total cost and total emission functions, as well as in the weights.

  • Fashion Supply Chain management through cost and time minimization from a network perspective
    Social Science Research Network, 2012
    Co-Authors: Anna Nagurney
    Abstract:

    In this paper, we consider Fashion Supply Chain management through cost and time minimization, from a network perspective and in the case of multiple Fashion products. We develop a multicriteria decision-making optimization model subject to multimarket demand satisfaction, and provide its equivalent variational inequality formulation. The model allows for the determination of the optimal multiproduct Fashion flows associated with the Supply Chain network activities, in the form of: manufacturing, storage, and distribution, and identi es the minimal total operational cost and total time consumption.The model allows the decision-maker to weight the total time minimization objective of the Supply Chain network for the time-sensitive Fashion products, as appropriate. Furthermore, we discuss potential applications to Fashion Supply Chain management through a series of numerical examples.

  • sustainable Fashion Supply Chain management under oligopolistic competition and brand differentiation
    Social Science Research Network, 2011
    Co-Authors: Anna Nagurney
    Abstract:

    In this paper, we develop a new model of oligopolistic competition for Fashion Supply Chains in the case of differentiated products with the inclusion of environmental concerns. The model assumes that each Fashion firm’s product is distinct by brand and the firms compete until an equilibrium is achieved. Each Fashion firm seeks to maximize its profits as well as to minimize its emissions throughout its Supply Chain with the latter criterion being weighted in an individual manner by each firm. The competitive Supply Chain model is network-based and variational inequality theory is utilized for the formulation of the governing Nash equilibrium as well as for the solution of the case study examples. The numerical examples illustrate both the generality of the modeling framework as well as how the model and computational scheme can be used in pratice to explore the effects of changes in the demand functions; in the total cost and total emission functions, as well as in the weights.

Z. Xiao Guo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Wendy Stubbs - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • circular Fashion Supply Chain through textile to textile recycling
    Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, 2019
    Co-Authors: Ida Marie Sandvik, Wendy Stubbs
    Abstract:

    The purpose of this paper is to explore the drivers, inhibitors and enablers of creating a textile-to-textile recycling system in the Scandinavian Fashion industry. It investigates the technology, innovation and systemic changes required to enable circular Supply Chains.,The research study uses a qualitative, interpretivist approach, drawing on in-depth semi-structured interviews with stakeholders in the Scandinavian Fashion industry.,The main inhibitors to textile-to-textile recycling systems in the Scandinavian Fashion industry are: limited technology which creates a challenge for separating materials; high costs of research and development and building the supporting logistics; complexity of Supply Chains including the multitude of stakeholders involved in product development. The enablers are design and use of new materials, increased garment collection and collaboration. This research suggests that sorting and recycling technology can be enhanced with the use of digital technologies, as this would create transparency, traceability and automatisation.,The research is limited by a small sample size and lack of representation of all key stakeholder groups, which limits the ability to generalise these findings. However, as an exploratory study, the findings provide insights that can be further tested in other contexts.,Understanding of textile-to-textile recycling is emerging both theoretically and practically, however, there is still much that is not understood. This research contributes to furthering understanding of how technology, collaboration and systemic change in the Fashion industry can support opportunities for textile-to-textile recycling, thereby aligning with circular economy principles.